Topic: software development

Pluralsight helps enterprises assess developer skill level

Pluralsight is launching a new online learning platform to help enterprises and their employees keep up with the ever-changing industry. The new on-demand, cloud-based solution helps enterprises assess the current skill levels of their developers, and based on those skill levels, it provides them with a learning path. “Half of what technology teams know today … continue reading

Twitter partners with Branch, Microsoft Edge and Chakra updates, and Apple’s unencrypted kernel—SD Times news digest: June 23, 2016

Branch is teaming up with Twitter’s Fabric Partner to extend the benefits of deep linking. Branch’s deep linking and attribution toolkit will now be available on Fabric, and will be accessible to developers for free. In addition, Branch’s technology will be integrated into Fabric’s already-existing kits, starting with its apps analytics tool Answers. “The Branch … continue reading

Microsoft announces a new protection service, Android N to avoid unforeseen crashes, and Apple makes a coding camp for kids—SD Times news digest: June 22, 2016

Microsoft is introducing a new service that combines its Azure Rights Management (Azure RMS) and technology from its acquisition of Secure Islands. The Microsoft Azure Information Protection service is designed to give enterprises a new solution to protect employee identity, and to secure and manage devices, apps, and data. “Organizations must protect their data at … continue reading

Report: The coding boot camp market is on the rise

Coding boot camps are expected to grow by 74% this year, according to a newly released report by Course Report. In its third annual Coding Bootcamp Market Sizing Report, it estimated there would be 17,966 graduates this year, compared to 10,333 last year. “This report shows how many new developers these boot camps will contribute … continue reading

BigPanda gives DevOps teams new ways to monitor their infrastructure

BigPanda is helping DevOps teams troubleshoot and maintain infrastructures at scale with the latest release of its Alert Correlation Platform. The update features Unified Search, Incident Dashboards and new integrations. “Companies looking to mature their operational processes to better support end customers can now unify and visualize monitoring data across their organizations, drastically reduce mean … continue reading

Google’s Android Security Rewards program, Microsoft and the legal marijuana industry, and GitHub’s pinned repository feature—SD Times news digest: June 17, 2016

It has been one year since Google added Android Security to its vulnerability rewards program. Since then, the company has received more than 250 vulnerability reports, paid more than US$550,000 to 82 individuals, and paid 15 researchers $10,000 or more. The company is now updating its Android rewards program to entice even more security researchers … continue reading

SD Times GitHub Project of the Week: Sentry

Sentry wants to make sure bugs don’t affect a user’s web, mobile or game experience. It is a modern error-logging and aggregation platform designed to give developers real-time crash reporting. The solution will notify developers when new issues occur or old issues resurface, ensure changes don’t have a negative impact on users, and diagnose and … continue reading

Git 2.9 released

The latest version of the open-source distributed version-control system Git is now available. Git 2.9 features new features, enhancements and bug fixes. In the latest version, Git aims to make submodules faster and more flexible than before. In the last release, the team gave users the option to fetch submodules in parallel in order to … continue reading

The fourth Android Developer Preview, Samsung acquires Joyent, and GitHub security update—SD Times news digest: June 16, 2016

Google has announced the fourth developer preview of its upcoming operating system, Android N, and the final Android N SDK is now available. The Android N SDK aims to provide developers tools to develop and test against Android N’s official APIs. New features in Android N include multi-windows support, direct-reply notifications, and bundled notifications. With … continue reading

Microsoft looks into extending the C programming language

Microsoft wants to help developers create better and more reliable C programs. The company is currently conducting research into how it can extend the C programming language and help developers build more secure solutions. According to the company, most system software such as operating systems, browsers, database and programming language interpreters are written using C … continue reading

Chef tackles application automation with Habitat

Chef is giving developers a new approach to automating applications with its open-source project Habitat, designed to give applications the intelligence to self-organize and self-configure throughout their life cycle. According to Adam Jacob, cofounder and CTO of Chef, today’s businesses are trying to figure out how to be as fast, efficient and innovative as companies … continue reading

QCon New York kicks off its first day

QCon New York kicked off its fifth annual event at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge today. Some of the popular panels included the Netflix API Platform for Server-Side Scripting, hosted by Katharina Probst, an engineering manager at Netflix; Scaling Uber to 1,000 Services, hosted by Matt Ranney, chief systems architect at Uber; … continue reading

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