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The Most Often Ignored Agile Practice

Agile practices help you develop software that meets the user needs faster and safer???and that responds quickly to changes in the requirements, environment or technological advances. But, there is one

GitHub Adds Project Management Features

GitHub, the popular code hosting service, has updated some of its features, offering greatly enhanced project management capabilities. Specifically, it is now easier to manage comments by grouping and categorizing

Oracle Proposes Giving NetBeans to Apache

Geertjan Wielenga, project manager for the NetBeans IDE, has submitted a proposal on Oracle’s behalf that would have the Apache Software Foundation take over management of the open source project.

Adding Longs Without Overflowing

Suppose you are porting a C code, for example, that sums 32 bit integers (Longs) to VB6. In C, when the result of a sum does not fit into an

CA Improves API Management Capabilities

CA Technologies has refreshed its lineup of API management tools for enterprise application development teams. It has updated its CA Live API Creator with a graphical interface that makes it

Few Developers Working on Chatbots, Report Finds

Visionmobile’s new Chatbot Developer Landscape 2016 report finds that while there has been a lot of hype about chatbots, few enterprise application development teams are actually working on chatbot applications.

Box Updates Development Platform

Box, which is best known for its cloud storage services, has updated its development platform that allows developers to integrate Box services into their applications. The company revamped its developer

Google Buys Apigee for $625 Million

Google has purchased API management platform vendor Apigee for $625 million. According to Google, APIs are now the way that enterprises communicate with their customers and other businesses. “Companies are

IBM: Hybrid Cloud Computing Dominates the Enterprise

IBM has released a new study titled “Tailoring hybrid cloud: Designing the right mix for innovation, efficiency and growth.” Based on survey results, it found that while companies are moving

Runtime Mode

If you ever need to know whether your code running inside the IDE or is compiled, drop these two functions in a module and use the first one to figure it out: Public Function RunTimeMode() As Boolean Dim bool As Boolean     Debug.Assert SetToTrue(bool)     RunTimeMode = Not bool End Function Private Function SetToTrue(ByRef bool As Boolean) As Boolean     bool = True     SetToTrue = True End Function

Ending the War of the Shells

Shells are the interactive programs that run in text terminals and let you execute commands and run external programs. But, shells can be used non-interactively and you can write scripts

Microsoft Now the Largest Enterprise SaaS Company

According to Synergy Research Group, Microsoft is now the world’s largest supplier of software as a service (SaaS) to enterprises, accounting for 15 percent of this part of the cloud

MyRocks Marries RocksDB with MySQL

Facebook has open sourced a new project called MyRocks that brings together its RocksDB database with MySQL. Essentially, it replaces MySQL’s standard InnoDB engine and replaces it with RocksDB. The

Salesforce Announces Einstein AI Initiative

In Salesforce’s second quarter earnings conference call, company CEO Marc Benioff announced that the firm is working on a new artificial intelligence initiative that will be integrated into the company’s

Giving a User Control a Border

You can give a User Control a border with the following code: protected override CreateParams CreateParams { get { CreateParams cp = base.CreateParams; cp.ExStyle &= (~NativeMethods.WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE); cp.Style &= (~NativeMethods.WS_BORDER); switch

Building a Faster Web

Over the last three years, the average page weight has grown by at least 15 percent per year. This is due to several trends such as increases in ad-related content,

Forrester Names IBM’s Cloud as a Leader

In a study titled “The Forrester Wave: Global Public Cloud Platforms For Enterprise Developers, Q3 2016,” Forrester Research named IBM a “strong performer.” It awarded IBM the best possible score

Cisco Buys ContainerX

With the trend toward containerization continuing to increase, Cisco has announced the purchase of a startup called ContainerX. “Many of our customers are starting to use containers to build, deploy

Rackspace Goes Private

Struggling cloud computing provider Rackspace has been purchased by Apollo Global Management LLC, a private equity firm. The deal, worth approximately $4.3 billion, will take the company private to give

JIRA Adds Ability to Hire Freelance Developers

Atlassian has added a new feature to its JIRA project management service that converts JIRA tickets to freelance job postings on Upworks. The feature will make it easier for startups