Jupyter Book is an open-source tool for building publication-quality books, websites and documents with computational content. It enables users to write content in markdown files or Jupyter notebooks, include computational elements, include rich syntax, and convert content into web-based interactive books and PDFs. This week, the team has announced it is reworking the project to … continue reading
The past year saw a 430% increase in next-generation cyber attacks aimed at actively infiltrating open source software supply chains, according to the 2020 State of the Software Supply Chain report. In the past 12 months, 929 next-generation software supply chain attacks were recorded. By comparison, 216 such attacks were recorded between February 2015 and … continue reading
Adobe announced it is ending the development for PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build. PhoneGap was created in 2008 to give mobile app developers a way to easily create web and mobile applications with a single codebase. Since 2008, the industry and market has evolved and PhoneGap usage has declined. “In the context of these developments and … continue reading
Open-source software is showing up in ever-growing percentages of applications, and the amount of open-source within those applications is increasing just as fast. Developers are drawn to open source for a number of reasons: the fact that they can access the code within the components; the fact that there is a community of people creating, … continue reading
The release of React 17 focuses on making it easier to upgrade React itself. The release contains no new developer-facing features. React 17 is a “stepping stone” release that makes it safer to embed a tree managed by one version of React inside a tree managed by a different version of React, according to the … continue reading
Data is more available than ever before, and copious amounts of new data are collected every day. But if there’s one major impediment to helping organizations unlock the full value of their data, it’s the fact that data hasn’t truly been democratized. In large part, data is simply not accessible for far too many professionals … continue reading
Frances “Fran” Allen, the first female IBM Fellow and the first woman to win the Turing Award, died on August 4, 2020, the day of her 88th birthday. She was a pioneer in compiler organization and optimization algorithms and made seminal contributions to the world of computing. Her work on inter-procedural analysis and automatic parallelization … continue reading
IBM has released a new open-source API documentation tool to help developers provide better documentation and try out new APIs. The OpenAPI Comment Parser enables developers to document code for OpenAPI specs in a clean and simple way. The company focuses on the OpenAPI specification because it provides an open standard to define and document … continue reading
Continuous delivery as a service provider Harness announced that it acquired Drone.io, the creator of the open-source project Drone. Drone is a continuous delivery system build on container technology. With this new acquisition, Harness hopes to enable DevOps engineers to build, test and deploy software on-demand, without delay or downtime. Drone.io plugins are containerized and … continue reading
The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) announced that Jenkins is the first project to graduate by demonstrating growing adoption, an open governance process, feature maturity, and a strong commitment to community, sustainability, and inclusivity. Jenkins is an open-source automation server and CI/CD system that provides the ability to connect all tools and customize to fit any … continue reading
GitHub Actions shipped a series of features designed to improve workflows when working with PRs from repository forks. Because all pull request workflows raised from repository forks have a read-only token and no access to secrets, common workflows like labeling or commenting have become difficult, according to GitHub. That’s why the company created a new … continue reading
BlackBerry announced new efforts to fight against cybersecurity attacks at this week’s Black Hat USA 2020 conference. The company’s new open-source tool PE Tree is designed to significantly reduce the time and effort required to reverse engineer malware. According to the company, with the use of PE Tree, reverse engineers can view portable executable (PE) … continue reading
