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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 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
There will be times when you need to get the next number in a sequence. Say, for example, you store all student numbers, or you keep track of them. Then,
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
HPE and Micro Focus have announced the terms of a complicated $8.8 billion deal that will see HPE shed some of its enterprise software assets. HPE will spin off its
According to a new report from SNS Research, sales of big data hardware, software and services will likely top $46 billion this year and grow to more than $72 billion
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
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
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
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
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
IBM has created a new business unit called Industry Platforms that will offer solutions based on blockchain and Watson. IBM CEO Ginni Rometty said, “The Industry Platforms business will bring
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
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,
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
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
Multiple teams within Microsoft are working aggressively to create open source frameworks and the Office team is not far behind. They have already created an open-source toolkit called the Office
Online job board Hired has released a new study of technology industry salaries, and interestingly, it says that product managers now earn more than software engineers. “Product managers were offered
Several vendors recently made announcements related to DevOps and Agile software development, and eWeek put together a quick rundown: Shippable launched an updated version of its continuous deployment software that
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
When you need to cast some type to another type in VB, you should favor the “classical” functions CBool, CByte, CInt, CLng, CDec, CSng, CDbl, CDate, CStr and the “new”
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
You can use a normal SELECT query joined with a bunch of AND statements to determine if a certain value exists, but this can become cumbersome and tedious. Enter the
A pair of new reports claim that deploying applications within containers can help enterprises improve security. The first report, from analyst firm Gartner, says, containers are better than bare-metal because
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Walmart is talking about having its OneOps cloud computing management technology become part of the OpenStack project. At an OpenStack event in New York, Andrew Mitry, Walmart’s lead cloud engineer,
Microsoft has released Preview 4 of Visual Studio 15, the forthcoming update to its flagship integrated development environment (IDE). One of the biggest changes in the preview is an improved
When you have a dynamic array that has no dimensions defined yet in VB, trying to get its lower or upper bound raises an error (#9 – Subscript out of
Building software used to be simple. You worked on one system with one executable. You compiled the executable and if the compilation passed, you could run your executable and play
The Linux Foundation has released its annual report on Linux development, titled “Linux Kernel Development: How Fast It is Going, Who is Doing It, What They are Doing, and Who
