Topic: software development

SIIA announces the 2020 CODiE award winners for business and education technology

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has announced the winners of its 35th annual CODiE awards. The awards are designed to honor software, education, information and media excellence. The awards are split into two categories (business technology and education technology) with a variety of subcategories such as best coding and computation thinking solution, best … continue reading

premium Delivering services through a crisis: 5 lessons learned

The impact that COVID-19 is having on people’s lives and safety cannot be understated. Life as we know it changed dramatically in only a few short weeks. But amidst all these changes, the pandemic has also emerged as a major player in the age of digital disruption. Companies have found themselves relying on technology never … continue reading

Developers buying in to security tasks

Security has become enough of a drumbeat issue that its importance has trickled down from the CISOs through the security organization to software developers. And slowly but surely, developers are beginning to take ownership of security as a part of the development life cycle. But this heightened awareness of security hasn’t necessarily led to better … continue reading

Defining development roles in today’s modern software world

New and improved methodologies are always switching up the way software development teams work, but to keep up with the pace of evolution, the team structure is not the only change that needs to happen. Team members need to develop new skills and sometimes even transition to new roles. “The engineering teams definitely have to … continue reading

The dev manager’s dilemma: To code or not to code

There is very little difference between an engineering manager and traditional business manager. Both types of managers need to be able to organize, motivate and help teams as well as meet business goals in a cost-effective way. The difference is the work that is being managed.  According to Lorenzo Pasqualis, vice president of engineering at … continue reading

premium Specification by Example: Looking back… and ahead

We’ve all heard the old saying “A picture is worth a thousand words.” It’s trite, but it’s true. An image can cut through the crap and get everyone on the same page in an instant. In the software development world, examples carry the same power. That’s why I, like so many others, am a big … continue reading

SD Times news digest: GitHub now free for teams, Pinpoint engineering dashboard released, and PyCharm 2020.1

Private repositories with unlimited collaborators are now available to all GitHub accounts and all of the core GitHub features are available to everyone.  “This means teams can now manage their work together in one place: CI/CD, project management, code review, packages, and more. We want everyone to be able to ship great software on the … continue reading

CodeStream 7.0 introduces Live View to show what other devs are working on

Collaborative IDE provider CodeStream has announced a new version of its platform. CodeStream 7.0 includes updates to code reviews and a Live View that shows what everyone is working on. Updates to code reviews include the ability to request code reviews right from the IDE, notifications when code reviews are initiated, the ability to do … continue reading

Apache Software Foundation updates Tomcat, Wicket, Flink and Jackrabbit

In the past week, the Apache Software Foundation has announced a number of updates to its projects.  Apache Tomcat has been updated to version 9.0.34. Key changes from the previous version include support for default values when using ${…} property replacement in configuration files, a warning when configuring HTTP Connectors if the encoding is not … continue reading

premium Squandering the honeymoon period

The 18-month project was approved, funded, and project team members, users and user management attended the project kickoff meeting for the new system. Six months later the project is on schedule and on budget. Yet, unknown to the team, problems are brewing that cannot only sink the on-time and on-budget project, but these problems might … continue reading

Governance, compliance and risk management does not have to be a lengthy, tedious process

Software development may be a faster process thanks to the rise of Agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery, but governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management are slowing things down.  There are many manual and lengthy checks that go into GRC to make sure the software is secure, adheres to laws and regulations, and is on track … continue reading

GitLab moves 18 of its DevOps features to open source

GitLab announced that 18 of its features are moving to open source including related issues, export issues, issue board focus mode, and service desk. “This marks a major milestone in our efforts to empower the community to collaborate more robustly and to take our single tool for the DevOps lifecycle to the next level,” Sid … continue reading

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