A newly announced methodology wants to help businesses manage their freelance programmers. The eXtremely Distributed Software Development (XDSD) methodology is an open software development practice designed to reduce risks and improve quality in projects. According to Yegor Bugayenko, cofounder and CTO at Teamed.io and creator of XDSD, working remotely is a popular trend. But few … continue reading
A software developer’s job is never done. They don’t always get their code right on the first time, and it doesn’t always look pretty at first glance. Developers have to constantly modify, improve, and clean up their codebase to make it more readable and maintainable. “Software development is like writing a novel,” said Geoffrey Grosenbach, … continue reading
DevOps is about more than getting development and operation teams to work together. It is a philosophy to get teams to embrace collaboration, ship code faster, and be more responsive to the market. And just working together isn’t enough to achieve that goal. In order to truly be successful within DevOps, organizations need to adopt … continue reading
Interviews are always nerve-wracking, tedious, and for the most part uneventful, especially if you are applying to a ton of jobs. And it’s no different for developers going through the process. You would think with a market that has such a high demand for employees like the software development industry that finding a job would … continue reading
Adobe and MIT have developed new technology to take on software rot. Software rot occurs when developers neglect software for too long, and it becomes out of date, slow or useless compared to modern technology. “It’s really hard for developers to keep up with the pace of technology evolution in CPUs and GPUs,” said Shoaib … continue reading
How can programmers benefit from the “the year of Neural Nets”? Statistical machine learning techniques have been surging in popularity in academic settings for years, but 2015 was a watershed in terms of industry awareness and deployment. It was not long ago when the term “Deep Neural Networks” seemed about as dubious an explanation as … continue reading
Before testers try out new methods that may expose software to many risks, their companies are asking themselves a big question: to test or not to test in production? As companies move to implement development processes such as DevOps or Continuous Integration and Delivery, testing in production can become an important piece of the equation. … continue reading
ActiveState is releasing version 9.3 of its integrated development environment with some small features it said makes a big impact. Komodo is the company’s multi-language IDE for developers. The biggest feature, according to Nathan Rijksen, lead Komodo developer at ActiveState, is the addition of a documentation browser, which allows developers to quickly reference the documentation … continue reading
The software development industry is growing by leaps and bounds every day, but security still seems to be a problem that hasn’t been conquered. Many businesses have had the displeasure of dealing with hack attacks, and we read about them almost every week. So here comes SourceClear: a security company focused on software developers that … continue reading
Today marks the one-year anniversary of HTML5’s standardization, and since then it has quickly become a preferred solution for Web development. It was a long and hard road for HTML5 to reach that status, and not many thought it would make it this far. “My perception at the time eight years ago was that it … continue reading
Rodney Dangerfield made going “Back to School” popular in the mid-1980s, and now, 30 years later, it’s being made popular again, but this time by software developers who “get no respect” in their current position. Unlike Rodney’s big college experience at “Grand Lakes University,” though, these developers are turning to small software development trade schools—or … continue reading
We’ve taken a look at a program at UC Berkeley where students across disciplines come together to work on solving problems in the marketplace. A lot of this work takes place around solving urban problems in India, but the projects span the gamut from third-world issues to first-world enterprise business strategies. Solomon Darwin, who directs … continue reading
