Google wants to make mobile sites more mobile friendly by removing distracting app install interstitials. According to the company, some interstitials hide a majority of the site’s content, and users get frustrated when they come across them. To address this, Google is updating its Mobile-Friendly Test to indicate which sites should avoid app install interstitials. … continue reading
Developers looking to upgrade to Angular 2 won’t have to worry about their existing Angular 1 applications. Google has announced it will enable developers to mix Angular 1 and Angular 2 in their applications. Angular 2 features improved performance, powerful templating, simpler APIs, and easier debugging, according to the Angular team. “We’re making it easy … continue reading
The success or failure rate of a development team can largely be correlated with the expertise and skill sets represented by its individual members. Sometimes, software development C-level officers can become so mired in the myriad aspects of running a business and getting products released as quickly as possible that they lose sight of what … continue reading
It happens time and time again. You are working on a project, and your computer crashes, causing you to lose all your work. But MIT researchers want to solve this problem by building a crash-tolerant data storage system. “What many people worry about is building these file systems to be reliable, both when they’re operating … continue reading
The U.S. government’s Information Innovation Office (I2O), a subsidiary of DARPA, has released a broad agency announcement calling for “revolutionary research” proposals for software development with two primary objectives: to “empower humans within the information ecosystem,” and to “guarantee trustworthy computing and information.” According to the I2O’s announcement, the office is seeking “unconventional approaches that … continue reading
Developers looking to join the world of Android development have a lot to learn from new tools, popular features and users’ interests. To help Android development beginners get started, Simplilearn, a provider of professional certification courses, has provided five fundamental tips developers should learn before getting started. (Related: Android fragmentation is bigger than ever) The … continue reading
I’ll jump straight to the punch line: It takes more than agile tooling to make you agile. That’s probably not what you expected to hear from a guy who makes sophisticated collaboration tools. (Or, if you did, congratulations on being a mind reader. Now please get out of my head.) But it’s the truth. And … continue reading
As awareness of the Internet of Things (IoT) grows, devices are becoming smarter and more embedded, resulting in difficult development environments. But as with any software, there is a demand for it to be delivered fast, and that goes for embedded devices—despite their complexity. “Software has become the primary driver of innovation and disruption,” said … continue reading
Mozilla is trying to address the latest trends in the software development industry by re-examining how the company builds Firefox. “Firefox is built on Web technologies, but we could do a much better job of capitalizing on that,” Dave Camp, director of engineering for Firefox, wrote in an email to Firefox developers. According to Camp, … continue reading
For years IT organizations have been criticized for being too slow, too restrictive and unresponsive to the business. Analysts and vendors have pushed IT to transform itself as a whole, and encouraged the adoption of technologies that enable agility. But a new perspective on IT is gaining steam. Instead of changing the face of IT, … continue reading
Pneuron and PubNub have announced new rounds of funding to help their companies grow. Pneuron, a company that focuses on application development and deployment with an emphasis on business value, announced a US$5 million Series B-1 round of funding from Safeguard Scientifics, Osage Partners and Scott Group LLC. This is the company’s latest funding round … continue reading
Remember that famous headline from a few years back: “SOA is Dead!” Well, reports of SOA’s death have been greatly exaggerated. SOA—the term that defined service-oriented architecture—is alive and well today as the underpinning for microservices and containers. Together, microservices and containers comprise the final piece of a mechanism that ties Agile development, Continuous Delivery … continue reading
