Platinum Rift: CodinGame’s newest challenge CodinGame, a gamification coding platform provider, has announced a new challenge for programmers, giving them the opportunity to have their coding talents noticed by high-profile technology companies. Platinum Rift is a three-week multiplayer artificial intelligence challenge aiming to reveal programming skills through hands-on programming in languages such as Java, C, … continue reading
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced the release of its 2.0 SDKs. The 2.0 releases include Couchbase SDKs for C, Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby making it easy for developers using the most popular programming languages to build scalable and high performance next generation applications. Today, … continue reading
Realm for Android Less than three months after releasing Realm for iOS, the mobile database provider is releasing Realm for Android, maintaining the same simple API and modern design as the iOS version. “We consciously tried to release Android in an earlier state than what we shipped for iOS, so that we could benefit from … continue reading
Docker has said it will use what it learns from users’ Docker Hub search habits to deliver additional language stacks to customers, and as a result the open-source platform is adding 11 of the most searched programming language stacks to Docker Hub Official Repositories. “We determined that the community wants prebuilt stacks of their favorite … continue reading
Microsoft announces DocumentDB and Azure Search-as-a-Service Microsoft has announced several services for its Azure cloud platform, including DocumentDB, a fully managed NoSQL document database service. Blog posts from Microsoft Azure product marketing director Vibhor Kapoor and Azure senior program manager Ryan CrawCour detail the new services, which in addition to the NoSQL service feature Azure … continue reading
Proposals have turned into major language changes for Java lately, and Python is poised to follow suit. Programmer Guido van Rossum, author of the Python programming language, published a proposal on the Python mailing list suggesting that Python should learn from languages such as Haskell and the experimental mypy Python variant’s syntax for function annotations. … continue reading
#1: AngularJS + Bootstrap Responsive Dashboard When developer Elliot Hesp lacked a simple responsive dashboard during a project, he decided to make one. This dashboard front end eschews jQuery for a more responsive design. The dashboard’s sidebar toggle is managed by AngularJS, while the grid layout and components are built with the Bootstrap framework. It’s … continue reading
Microsoft announces Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1 RC Microsoft has announced the release candidate for version 2.1 of Python Tools for Visual Studio. The open-source plug-in, which enables features such as CPython/IPython editing, IntelliSense and interactive/cross-platform debugging in Visual Studio, adds support for more Web frameworks, free Express SKUs, and improved syntax highlighting in … continue reading
#1: Awesome Go Following in the footsteps of Awesome PHP and Awesome Sysadmin, feature in a previous GitHub Top 5 , is a list, curated by Thiago Avelino of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software. From databases, machine learning and testing to third-party APIs, web frameworks and tools, Awesome Go has something for all your Go programming needs. #2: Awesome Python … continue reading
Blackberry defends square Passport smartphone; LLVM updates Windows support; Python tops introductory CS languages … continue reading
Open-source Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1 beta enhance general scripting and Web programming … continue reading
Open-source Poppy Project robot and Python framework is making robotic production cheap and accessible to all … continue reading
