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Virtual reality is here and many companies are working on VR devices, SDKs, content and frameworks. But, true presence and immersion requires high-end equipment at the moment. It will be
AtScale Inc. has published the results of a new benchmark study of BI-on-Hadoop analytics engines. The study tested Hive, Impala, Presto and Spark SQL, and it found that each of
The BitBlt function simply performs a bit-block transfer of the color data corresponding to a rectangle of pixels from a source device context into a destination device context. You can
In the wake of well-publicized incidents in which hackers used insecure Internet of Things (IoT) devices to mount cyberattacks, security vendor ESET and the National Cyber Security Alliance have released
When you are tuning the application’s memory and garbage collection settings, you should take well-informed decisions based on the key performance indicators. But there is an overwhelming amount of metrics
Oracle’s Bare Metal Cloud Services are now generally available. The infrastructure as a service offering will initially run out of a US-Southwest region based in Phoenix, but Oracle hopes to
CA Technologies has announced the purchase of BlazeMeter, a company that offers continuous performance application testing tools. CA plans to integrate BlazeMeter’s technology into its Continuous Delivery solutions, providing better
The prognosticators at Gartner have published their annual list of hot technology trends, and the 2017 list includes several entries that will be of interest to enterprise application development teams.
Google has launched a new cloud storage service called Coldline. As the name suggests, this service is for “cold” or archival data. Accordingly, it has a very small price tag:
At the VMworld 2016 Europe event, the big news was that VMware now supports Kubernetes container management on its Photon platform. “With Kubernetes as a service on top of Photon,
There are a number of ways to read all content from a text file. The function below uses only VB6’s features to do that. Public Function ReadAll(ByVal FilePath As String)
Containers are making inroads into the mainstream. Many large organizations and startups deploy their software using containers and many other experiment with the technology or plan to do it. When
Security vendor Veracode has released a new report which says that 97 percent of enterprise Java apps use at least one open source component with a known vulnerability. The most
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added another region for its cloud computing services. With the US East (Ohio) Region, AWS now has 14 separate regions. The Ohio region will offer
Hey guys, FINALLY San Francisco has a Global Day of Code Retreat! It’s being hosted this Saturday in the Financial District: http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Software-Craftsmanship/events/234610700/
Anyone working with open API’s or working through your API strategy…may want to check out RAML. Here’s a group that does regular talks on it by the same folks who authored the spec. http://www.meetup.com/RAML-Meetup-San-Francisco-Bay-Area/
Microsoft has announced that it is opening an IoT Innovation Center in Taiwan. The center is meant to facilitate cooperation among developers, Microsoft partners and academics working on Internet of
VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed a new agreement that could encourage more enterprises to deploy hybrid cloud computing environments based on the two companies’ technology. VMware will
Atlassian’s Bitbucket Pipelines continuous delivery service has exited beta and is now in production. It will continue to be free for the rest of this year, and after that it
After each Transact-SQL statement, the server sets the value of this variable to the total number of records affected by it. It can be used to verify the success of
A new report from CA Technologies titled “The Security Imperative: Driving Business Growth in the App Economy” includes some disturbing revelations about enterprise application development teams’ approaches to security. While
Microsoft has officially released Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016, both of which enable hybrid cloud computing. “In our long-held view, hybrid cloud is the reality for all enterprise
Until now, only developers in the United States and Canada could purchase Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality headset, but now the company is opening up the program to people in Australia,
Automating Web site deployment is an important topic for both individuals and companies that provide Web development and maintenance services. Although it is often seen as a final small task
Verizon has announced that its Secure Cloud Interconnect service will connect with Oracle’s FastConnect service. The partnership could help reduce latency in enterprise hybrid cloud computing deployments. Verizon customers will
Everybody knows how to check if a number is prime: 1) Set a divisor to two; 2) “Mod” the number by the divisor; 3) If the result is zero, then
IBM has launched a Watson Application Developer Certification Program that will help identify developers who have the skills to build applications based on the Watson cognitive computing platform. “We want
Cloud computing heavyweight Salesforce.com has launched two new services for developers. First, Salesforce DX is the company’s new continuous delivery platform that integrates with its Force.com and Heroku cloud development
OpenStack has released Newton, the 14th version of its open source cloud computing platform. The update adds greater scalability and resiliency, as well as better support for container orchestration tools
You can find out what Permissions the current user has with the Security and Security.Permissions namespaces as in the following example which determines whether or not the user has certain
