Microsoft announced the August 2019 release of Visual Studio Code 1.38, adding updates as well as new features. Some of the key highlights include the ability to keep letter casing across multi-file search/replace; to check min, max, enum values and glob patterns; quick navigation features; and links to MDN documentation directly from IntelliSense. The full … continue reading
Microsoft announced the release of MakeCode Arcade, a computing education platform designed to make programming easier, engaging and fun to learn. To build the platform platform the company integrated a new high-level programming language with text and graphical input modalities called Static TypeScript (STS). “With Arcade, STS lets developers of all skill levels easily write … continue reading
Microsoft announced that it is releasing a new open-source toolkit that allows researchers and developers to create chatbots with different personas called the Intelligent Conversation Engine: Code and Pre-trained Systems (ICECAPS). Whether conversations need to be formal of casual, the toolkit enables chatbots to tailor dialogue to fit the scenario. Microsoft has worked on the … continue reading
Microsoft announced TypeScript 3.6, which introduces stricter checking for iterators and generator functions, as well as new TypeScript Playground, new editor features, and enhancements to the language and compiler. TypeScript is a language that builds on JavaScript by adding optional static types, which can be checked by the compiler to catch common errors in programs. … continue reading
Microsoft announced that it is supporting the addition of Microsoft exFAT technology to the Linux kernel. exFAT is a file system used in Windows, as well as many SD cards and USB flash drives. “It’s important to us that the Linux community can make use of exFAT included in the Linux kernel with confidence,” John … continue reading
Fauna announced the general availability of FaunaDB Managed Serverless. The new service is a managed cloud database offering that aims to make it easier to obtain a serverless experience in the cloud. “Developers wanting a powerful data management component for cutting-edge app development can use FaunaDB, while companies wanting to avoid hands-on cloud configuration and … continue reading
As part of the Confidential Computing Consortium launch, Microsoft is contributing its Open Enclave SDK to help “develop a broader industry collaboration and ensure a truly open development approach,” the company wrote in a post. The open-source project is targeted at a single unified enclaving abstraction for developers to build Trusted Execution Environment (TEEs) based … continue reading
Microsoft announced that it is acquiring jClarity to support their continued contributions to open source while driving increased performance for Java workloads on Azure. jClarity is a leading contributor for AdoptOpenJDK, an open-source OpenJDK binaries project. “The jClarity team are JVM experts who have helped their customers optimize their Java applications while also providing leadership … continue reading
Microsoft announced the latest updates to Visual Studio Code. The updates include include a new modern icons, as well as the ability to edit string arrays in the Settings UI, reveal search results in File Explorer and show whitespace in selection. It also includes terminal search UX improvements, better SCSS @import navigation, remote development tutorials … continue reading
Microsoft is boosting its efforts to make Azure more secure with the launch of Azure Security Lab, a set of dedicated cloud hosts for security researchers to test attacks against IaaS scenarios. In addition, the cloud giant is doubling the top bounty reward for Azure vulnerabilities to $40,000. “To make it easier for security researchers … continue reading
The Azure development team at Microsoft is working to provide new features to win over more developers, through a heavy investment in tools for migrating legacy platforms to its cloud, pushing machine learning, quantum computing and other innovative features. Microsoft hopes its investments will pay off in growing its cloud market share, which currently sits … continue reading
Google Cloud announced that it will begin supporting VMware workloads, to offer customers “a wide breadth of choices for how to run their VMware workloads in a hybrid deployment,” according to a blog post. “With VMware on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), customers will be able to leverage all of the familiarity and investment protection of … continue reading
