Google has announced it is expanding its Brillo operating system and communication platform Weave to a broader range of developers. Brillo and Weave are the company’s developer tools for building connected devices. Brillo provides an embedded OS based on Android, a developer kit, and a developer console for building devices. Weave lets devices communicate with … continue reading
At the AWS re:Invent 2015 annual user conference, HP announced the availability of several enterprise software solutions for Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to Firstpost. The solutions will help customers test applications and run Big Data analytics on AWS. New AWS-compatible solutions include: HP StormRunner Load and HP LoadRunner: performance testing solutions that help agile … continue reading
Google is adding new developer tools to its Google Play Developer Console. The company announced the availability of Universal App Campaigns and user acquisition performance reporting. Universal App Campaigns allow developers to set up ad campaigns to promote their applications across Google Play, Google Search, YouTube and Google Display Network. User acquisition performance reporting provides … continue reading
Content blocking (such as blocking unwanted ads or unwanted browser tracking) to improve load speed and data consumption is becoming common across the Web and mobile. But Mozilla believes developers and users should be aware of the consequences. For instance, the company believes content blocking has the power to harm competition and innovation, or take … continue reading
Researchers want to help software developers find the best tools for detecting security issues. Emerson Murphy-Hill, a National Science Foundation-funded computer science researcher and associate professor at North Carolina State University, and his colleagues are attempting to uncover the shortcomings and disadvantages of security tools. “Our work is focused on understanding the developers who are … continue reading
Builds are taking less and less time, according to a new SD Times poll of its readers. In a software development life cycle relying increasingly on automated build tools with an emphasis on speed, full production software builds have gone from taking hours and days to minutes and seconds. In our recent poll, 35% of … continue reading
Honda has unveiled its 2016 Accord featuring both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay interface functionality. Honda becomes the first auto manufacturer to roll out a connected vehicle supporting both Apple and Google’s automotive operating systems synced with an Android or iOS device. Android Auto offers 2016 Accord drivers features such as Google Maps, Google Now, … continue reading
According to a study by Evans Data Corp. (EDC), the number of new software startups has decreased by 49% since 2009. Based on data from its 2015 Global Developer Population and Demographic Study, EDC said that in North America there are currently 328,000 developers working at companies less than two years old; 369,000 developers working … continue reading
CA Technologies has entered an agreement to acquire Rally Software for US$480 million, the company announced today. The deal will allow CA to absorb Rally’s agile project-management software into its DevOps and cloud management portfolios. Rally offers software solutions focused on scaled agile development, analytics and metrics, product and portfolio management, and enterprise team collaboration. … continue reading
Last year’s appeals court ruling that could—in the opinion of groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation—break software is now supported by the White House. Earlier this year the Supreme Court requested the Obama administration weigh in on the 2014 appeals court decision finding that Google infringed on Oracle copyrights in the use of Java APIs … continue reading
One thousand three hundred enterprise developers responded to Black Duck’s 2015 Future of Open Source survey, and the results point to an easy road ahead for publicly developed software. Chief among the findings was that 78% of those respondents reported that their company as using open-source software in production, and only 3% said they did … continue reading
It all comes down to this. After three weeks and 30 other software development technologies, methodologies and platforms going down, it’s #3 APIs vs. #4 Service Virtualization for the championship. APIs ended the cinderella run of #8 NoSQL in a close game, while Service Virtualization buried C# in a landslide victory to reach the championship … continue reading
