Since the constant change of requirements in a life cycle can be overwhelming for development teams, TechExcel, a provider of application life-cycle management (ALM) solutions, announced the latest version of DevSuite to help teams speed up development life-cycle activities. DevSuite 10.0 simplifies requirements traceability through the entire life cycle, including development, testing, bug fixes and … continue reading
Microsoft is joining the container game with a new solution that aims to bring container apps to the cloud. The company announced the Azure Container Service is now generally available. Azure Container Service is a container scheduling and orchestration solution that is built from open-source software. “But why a container service? Lately it seems like … continue reading
Apple has created a new section of its App Store for developers so they can share how they succeeded on it, and to show other developers what they have learned in the process. On Developer Insights, the section of the App Store designed for developers, there is a planning section that helps developers plan and … continue reading
To help developers eliminate some of the scaling challenges they face, GitLab, the open-source code collaboration tool, announced a partnership with DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider to add free hosting for Continuous Integration (CI) for development teams. Working together, the organizations want to help developers with CI issues like speed, security and cost. The partnership … continue reading
A new solution is trying to reinvent what it means to do pair programming. The method calls for a pair of programmers to work together on one computer or workstation in order to learn from each other, and to catch each other’s mistakes. Kite aims to eliminate the need for another person by turning the … continue reading
It was a productive week for the Apache Software Foundation and its projects, including Apache Allura, which released version 1.4.0 this week with new features for customization. Apache Allura is a completely self-hosted website that manages source-code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, and also blogs for other individual projects. It’s an open-source implementation of … continue reading
GoPro has unveiled the GoPro Developer Program as a way to support companies that want to develop a better user experience. The GoPro Developer program was debuted at a private event in San Francisco. The program has been working with developers in a variety of companies, as well as a bunch of startups. “Over the … continue reading
Developers are often like composers: craftily writing up a elegant piece and making sure all the components work together. For those of you who are actually musicians, Alda wants to help you create music with code. Alda is a programming language for musicians designed for those who don’t know how to program, or for programmers … continue reading
The F8 Developer Conference concluded yesterday, leaving developers with plenty of new and advanced tools. Users of the Facebook platform will also benefit from some of these major announcements, new features and services. Here is a recap of some of the most important announcements made at the conference: A bot platform for Facebook Messenger Facebook … continue reading
Microsoft’s embrace of the open-source community and focus on cross-platform development is making it an exciting time to be a .NET developer, according to a recently released report. Progress announced its 2016 .NET Developer Survey, which reveals developers are excited about new cross-platform development and technology opportunities .NET has to offer. “If you think about … continue reading
Lucidworks, a search and analytics software company, today released Lucidworks View, an extension to its flagship product Fusion. It allows companies to create custom search-driven applications that use Apache Solr and Apache Spark. Companies that build a recommendation-driven e-commerce site, or a searchable customer service portal, can use Lucidworks View to give their customers access … continue reading
If there’s one thing that really turns people away from a product or service, it’s a hard sales pitch. Developers are no exception. When hearing company pitches about tools or solutions that might be useful to their team, developers in today’s world want to see the code and learn the real value of the product—marketing … continue reading
