Topic: software development
Latest version of Android Studio now available
The Android development team announced the stable release of Android Studio Chipmunk, the latest version of the official IDE for building Android apps. One new feature is the Compose Animation Preview which enables developers to inspect and debug animations that were built with Compose. They can inspect the exact values of each animated value at … continue reading
Great Expectations in the customer experience
Henry Ford once said “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Achieving a good customer experience (CX) is a fine line that comes down to building what the customer wants and building what might solve a problem the customer doesn’t yet know they have. When companies focus on … continue reading
LinearB raises $50 million in Series B funding
The engineering efficiency platform, LinearB, today announced that it has raised $50 million in Series B funding. The financing round was led by Tribe Capital with participation from new investor Salesforce Ventures as well as existing investors Battery Ventures and 83North. With this, Sri Pangulur, partner at Tribe Capital, will be joining the board at … continue reading
JetBrains announces partnership with Gitpod
JetBrains and Gitpod announced a partnership that will enable JetBrains’ popular desktop IDEs to leverage the automated, cloud-based developer environments provisioned by Gitpod with native integration. “As a long-time fan of JetBrains’ work, I am very excited about this partnership, as it combines the peace of mind and convenience of automated, cloud-based developer environments with … continue reading
MuleSoft announces Anypoint Code Builder and solutions to create APIs and integrations
MuleSoft announced its Anypoint Code Builder which helps developers to create APIs and integrations together with Anypoint Flex Gateway and API Governance. Anypoint Code Builder is an IDE with a user experience built on Visual Studio Code. The IDE includes built-in recommendations and includes a library of building blocks for common API and integration patterns. … continue reading
2022 Call for Code will focus on building solutions that take on climate change
Call for Code is an annual development challenge in which developers create solutions to help with a problem the world is facing. It is sponsored by David Clark Cause, IBM, United Nations Human Rights, and the Linux Foundation. This year, the challenge urges developers to create solutions that take on climate change. The solutions that … continue reading
GitHub enhances Codespaces with improved experience for working with multi-repository projects
GitHub announced new improvements that streamline the Codespaces experience when working with multi-repository and mono-repo projects. GitHub initially released Codespaces to address cloud-native applications that are housed in a single repository: the most common type of project on GitHub. For those that are developing a feature that spans many different types of services, GitHub added … continue reading
Sysdig releases new vulnerability prioritization feature
Sysdig announced the release of Risk Spotlight, a vulnerability prioritization feature based on runtime intelligence. The feature enables teams to reduce vulnerabilities by 95% and allows developers to focus on shipping applications faster, according to Sysdig. It also delivers vulnerability details such as CVSS vector from multiple sources, the fix version, and links to publicly … continue reading
TIBCO updates WebFOCUS platform
With the release of TIBCO WebFOCUS 9.0.0, the company announced stronger data access, AI/ML capabilities, and developer tools. “Valuable data and AI/ML algorithms flow through absolutely every corner of an organization. The use of visual discovery and improved data management enables users and developers to turn that raw data into truly meaningful insights,” said Mark … continue reading
GitHub’s Dependabot alerts now surface if code calls a vulnerability
GitHub announced a new feature for Dependabot alerts that helps developers see how vulnerabilities affect their code. Dependabot alerts use GitHub’s precise code navigation engine to determine if a repository directly calls a vulnerable function. The new feature marks a shift in how GitHub curates information on vulnerable packages from the Advisory Database to curating … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Lexical
Facebook announced that it open-sourced Lexical, an extensible JavaScript web text-editor library that emphasizes reliability, accessibility and performance. The project’s set of editor states represent the current and pending states of the editor at any given time. Developers can attach a content-editable DOM element to editor instances, and also register listeners and commands. Users can … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cadence
Cadence is a fault-tolerant stateful code platform created by Uber that enables users to write stateful applications without worrying about handling the complexity of handling process failures. Workflows provide primitives to enable application developers to express complex business logic as code. It also provides asynchronous history event replication that can help users recover from zone … continue reading
