Microsoft has officially released .NET Core 1.0, which the company describes as “a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern Web apps, microservices, libraries and console applications.”
In First Steps with Vagrant, you learned how to install Vagrant, set up and run a basic virtual machine. Now, we will cover a few more complex features, such as
With most of the SharePoint development now focusing around leveraging the Client Side Object Model (CSOM), guidance was long due from the community to write down the best practices to
At its MongoDB World conference, MongoDB unveiled a new database-as-a-service product called Atlas. For now, the service is available only on Amazon Web Services, but it plans to expand to
At its annual Red Hat Summit, Red Hat made a slew of announcements related to containers. They included the following: The Red Hat Container Developer Kit now includes Red Hat
Xamarin creates mobile app development tools that are built on top of the Mono Project. Xamarin always provided, arguably, the most polished cross-platform development environment, but, it was pretty pricey.
Google has made good on a promise it made at the I/O development conference, rolling out two new Awareness APIs for Android devices: Snapshot and Fence. The tools make it
There are umpteen ways to determine whether or not a TextBox in a group of TextBoxes is empty. Usually whilst doing Form validation, you need to ensure all data has
Media outlets are reporting that Google is considering commercializing its Spanner distributed database technology. The company uses Spanner internally to run many of its core services, and now engineers from
The recent U.K. referendum vote to leave the European Union (EU) could have some major implications for the cloud computing market. EU privacy laws and other regulations require that cloud
The traditional view of productivity and how to improve it is completely backwards. Most people think of productivity as a personal attribute of themselves (or their subordinates). X does twice
Market research firm Gartner is reporting that enterprises are spending only 10 percent of their development budgets on mobile development. That’s a 2 percent decrease since last year. “Demand for
IBM has announced the release of MobileFirst Foundation 8.0, its updated suite of tools for mobile development, testing and management. The key change from previous versions of the software is
IBM has launched a new cloud computing services integration tool called cloudMatrix. Based on technology IBM acquired when it bought Gravitant last November, cloudMatrix offers a gateway to public cloud
I often hear people say that using stored procedures protects you against SQL injection attacks. This is incorrect. The vulnerability to SQL Injection comes from concatenating values into SQL Strings
While there are several scenarios that may require you to run .NET code from within Node.js like- programming against a Windows specific interface or running a T-SQL query, there could
IBM’s Bluemix cloud development platform is rolling out a new set of tools for developing Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Called NPM Module and Node-RED, the new tools are part
The classes in .NET are structured to read files from the beginning to end. Hard drives are structured like that, sometimes though there is a dire need to read a
One of the most important aspects of mobile programming is displaying text on the screen. The relatively limited real estate of the mobile phone means that in order to provide
Market research firm Gartner has released a new Magic Quadrant report that ranks the various mobile application development platform (MADP) vendors. It assesses the capabilities of 17 different mobile development
During the DockerCon 2016 event, Docker unveiled Docker Engine 1.12. For the first time, this update includes container orchestration technology. “Prior to Docker 1.12, users would have had to download
The Eclipse Foundation, which is best known for its open source Java IDE, has announced that it has updated four of its Internet of Things (IoT) tools. The updates include
Traditionally, developers built applications and then discovered that parts of the infrastructure necessary for their application might useful on their own, or that it would be beneficial for third-party developers
ContainerX has announced that its container-as-a-service solution, which has been in beta trials, is now generally available. The containerization platform supports both Linux and Windows, which is fairly unique in
Google has announced that it is opening a new machine learning research lab in Zurich, Switzerland. Already a leader in artificial intelligence research, Google says this new group will focus
In today’s information-rich world, people read more than ever. We are constantly bombarded with text. Software developers, in particular, read a great deal. But, what part do books play in
Microsoft has introduced a new open source project called Project Bletchley that expands on its plans for blockchain technology. Blockchain is the distributed database technology that forms the basis for
Sometimes when presenting your query’s value, you end up with NULL values, obviously. The irritating thing about NULL values, especially with NULL Date values, is that when you attempt to
Many of the announcements Apple made at its Worldwide Development Conference (WWDC) were focused on the consumer market for its products, but it also had some news of interest for
Chef has released a new open source project called Habitat that offers application automation capabilities which could be helpful for enterprises that use DevOps practices. Somewhat similar to containerization, Habitat