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Global Day of Code Retreat

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/

API Resource group

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 Opens IoT Development Facility in Taiwan

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 AWS Announce Cloud Computing Partnership

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

Bitbucket Pipelines Now Generally Available

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

Using the @@rowcount Global Variable in SQL

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

Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2016

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

Automating Web Site Deployment

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

Oracle, Verizon Sign Hybrid Cloud Computing Deal

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

IsPrime Function

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 Debuts Watson Certification Program

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

Salesforce Launches Continuous Delivery Platform

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

Building Your Company with Agile Methods and Atlas

Agile practices grew out of challenges in software development and have been extended to many related activities such as database design, modeling and product management. Many budding startup companies embraced

Survey: Mobile Developer Population Reaches 12 Million

Evans Data has released a new “Global Development Population and Demographics Study,” which found that there are now more than 12 million mobile development pros worldwide. When the company first

Docker Launches InfraKit for Self-Healing Infrastructure

Docker, the company known for the open source containerization technology with the same name, has launched InfraKit, a new open source toolkit that enables self-healing infrastructure. The toolkit, which was

The Evolution of Java Development

There has been a lot of talk lately about Java’s decline. In this article, I’ll clarify and sort things out. Java has been through some turmoil, such as the stewardship

Like Operator Workaround for VBScript

VBScript lacks a Like operator. A common approach is to translate the pattern strings to use VBScript’s RegExp object, but you could use the IsLike function below instead: Public Function

Microsoft Launches AI Division

Microsoft is restructuring some of its business units, merging the Bing and Cortana product groups with Microsoft Research to create a new division called the AI and Research Group. In

Find and Activate External Windows

It is very easy to obtain access to an external running window and activate it. All you need is the actual title of the window ( the text written in

Hybrid Integrations with Azure Logic Apps

In the previous post, I talked about how we can leverage Logic Apps to create scalable workflows and business processes and demonstrated a process automation example with Salesforce. In this

The State of Go

The Go language is 6 years old and has gotten a lot of traction. With the recent release of Go 1.7.1, the entire ecosystem looks very healthy. The continued focus