Two Meanings? The form of internal documentation appropriate for an organization following agile practices. Generating external documentation as an artifact/user story. The first meaning is typically a combination of code
IBM has announced that its z Systems mainframe platform now supports Go, an open source programming language from Google. “We ported Go to z Systems as part of our overall
In the previous two posts (see Part 1?and Part 2), we compared the two most popular cloud platforms, Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s AWS for their offerings in the end-to-end ecosystem
Red Hat has released the 2.0 version of Ansible, the Python-based DevOps tool it recently acquired. The biggest changes in the new release are the addition of blocks and strategies.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to researchers at MIT, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale who are working to develop tools to
CrowdFlower Inc. has published a new study on the data science skills that enterprises are looking for in employees. It based the report on an analysis of job postings on
Take advantage of the duplex message exchange pattern to send messages from the server to the connected clients in WCF. The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a Microsoft programming framework
In a new report titled “The Evolving State of Mobile Software Development,” IDC analyst Al Hilwa said that enterprises are embracing hybrid mobile development tools that allow them to create
During an interview at CES 2016, BlackBerry CEO John Chen said his firm’s next two smartphones will feature Android instead of BB10, BlackBerry’s homegrown mobile operating system. Both devices are
The developer behind Android++ has released it under an open source license and made it available on GitHub. Android++ is an extension for Microsoft’s Visual Studio IDE that provides a
This week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is primarily about consumer devices, but there is also some Internet of Things (IoT) technology on display that could be of
At the CES 2016 show, Microsoft announced new plans that will allow people to get more work done from their vehicles. “Drivers will be able to access Office 365 services
Tiobe has named Java the Programming Language of the Year for 2015 because it had the biggest increase in popularity throughout the year. “At first sight, it might seem surprising
Mainframe software vendor Compuware is making a big push to improve its support for DevOps practices and Agile software development methodologies. The company is integrating its tools with Agile and
Agile practices have proven themselves time and again for development and evolution of software systems. But, it’s not clear if the same agile approach can benefit user-facing aspects such as
According to the latest figures from Net Analytics’ Netmarketshare, Windows 10 has captured 9.96 percent of the worldwide operating system market. That’s a 0.96 percent increase from last month, but
In the first part of this series?comparing the competing analytics platform offerings from Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, we explored Azure Analytics Platform System and AWS Redshift. In this post,
jQuery is a powerful library which makes writing JavaScript code much easier. One of its main features is the possibility of extending default functionality with custom plugins. In this article,
Citing unnamed sources and VLC developer Thomas Nigro, Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet is reporting that Microsoft is working on a new, lightweight browser codenamed Spartan. The sources say Windows
This past year was notable for the number of critical security vulnerabilities that researchers discovered in widely used software. Several of these recently discovered bugs created major headaches for enterprise
Oracle has confirmed that it recently acquired StackEngine, a startup focused on containerization and DevOps. It said that StackEngine employees will be joining Oracle’s public cloud computing team. In addition,
Configuration files (a.k.a config) are files that contain different options that programs can read and let you control the operation of the program without making code changes. Back in the
With the leading cloud providers now racing against time to complete their offerings in the analytics space, enterprises are spoilt for choice. Not only are there many offerings to choose
Oracle has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) related to concerns about the security of Java. Oracle had told Java users that their computers would be “safe
Microsoft has expanded its big data analytics portfolio by acquiring a Palo Alto-based analytics startup called Metanautix. The firm makes technology that allows enterprises to create pools of data from
NetEnrich has released the results of a wide-ranging survey of IT executives at organizations with $400 million or more in revenue. Key findings related to enterprise application development included the
The Linux Foundation is spearheading a new open source project called Hyperledger which aims to bring blockchain technology to the enterprise. Blockchain is the distributed record-keeping technology used by Bitcoin
C# is a fantastic programming language and .NET is a fantastic runtime. It was developed by Microsoft as an answer to Sun’s Java at the dawn of the previous millennium
CloudFoundry has launched a certification program aimed at ensuring portability across various vendors with platform as a service (PaaS) offerings based on CloudFoundry code. Already, several cloud computing vendors, including
Apple and IBM have released another wave of MobileFirst for iOS apps. That brings the total in the portfolio to more than 100 apps for 14 different industries and 65