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Microsoft has released the general availability version of SQL Server 2016. Designed for hybrid cloud computing, this version of the database makes it easy to move data between on-premises servers
At the MesosCon conference, EMC unveiled libStorage, its new open source orchestration, model and application programming interface (API) for containerized storage that is platform- and vendor-agnostic. Key features of the
In a blog post, Microsoft’s .NET team said it is working on adding support for tuples to two of the platform’s key programming languages: C# and Visual Basic. ?A tuple
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced availability of ALM Octane, its new application lifecycle management tool targeted at enterprises using DevOps and agile software development practices. “HPE ALM Octane is
A new report from Forrester Research says that the virtual reality (VR) market is about to take off and that manufacturers will likely sell 52 million VR headsets in 2020.
Software is arguably the most complicated thing created by humans. The amount of moving parts is orders of magnitude more than any physical manufactured object. Software is also getting into
Microsoft is reorganizing its venture capital arms. The group called Microsoft Ventures, which was part of the Developer Evangelism team, has been renamed Microsoft Accelerator, and it will continue with
Ever since the introduction of ASP.NET MVC and subsequently Web API, there has been some confusion brewing in the .NET Web development community in relation to the versioning practices being
Salesforce, which is itself one of the world’s largest cloud computing companies, has announced that it is moving much of its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS), the undisputed leader
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that the federal government is wasting money on maintaining old technology, some of it more than 50 years old,
A new report from Pegasystems, Cognizant and Marketforce says that60 percent of financial services companies that understand blockchain believe it could be game-changing. However, understanding of the technology is lagging
My favorite Agile methodology, Extreme Programming, has five main values: Simplicity, Communication, Feedback, Respect and Courage. The first four are relatively uncontested???everybody agrees on these four. Courage is different. Courage
Cloud-based communications platform Twilio has announced that it is opening a marketplace for third-party add-ons. ?This the beginning of Twilio?s marketplace,? said Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson. ?What we?ve
As Microsoft’s mobile business continues to struggle, the company has announced plans to lay off up to 1,850 people working on smartphone hardware, many of them former Nokia employees. Microsoft
The following code makes use of the Shell32 .Shell class to minimize all open windows, similar to what the Show Desktop button on the taskbar does. This also hides all
At its annual developer conference, collaboration tool vendor Atlassaian launched several new tools of interest to enterprise application development teams. First, its JIRA and Confluence apps now have iOS apps,
A new startup called SaaSGenius aims to combine Yelp-style reviews with cloud computing. This week it launched a beta version of its site, inviting people to submit reviews of cloud-based
The open source continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) server Jenkins has announced that it will be moving the back-end infrastructure for the project to Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service. “To support this
A pair of surveys from Toptal and Devpost are calling attention to weaknesses in the developer recruitment and hiring process. Twenty-five percent of those surveyed by Devpost said that behavioral
Microsoft has taken the wraps off the second release candidate for .NET Core version 2, and it includes many new APIs and other tools. .NET Core inclues a compiler, library
Software is infamously hard. This notion dates back to the 70s with the software crisis and the “No Silver Bullet” paper by Fred Brooks. The bigger the system, the more
In order to lock your computer, you need to use the following two APIs: [DllImport(“user32.dll”)] public static extern void LockWorkStation(); [DllImport(“user32.dll”)] public static extern int ExitWindowsEx(int uFlags, int dwReason); You
At SAP’s Sapphire Now conference, SAP and Microsoft announced that SAP’s HANA in-memory database is now certified to run on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service. Enterprises will be able to
The Azure Internet of Things?team has recently open sourced?the gateway SDKs?that can be used to build and deploy applications for Azure IoT. There are two classes of SDKs that have
Last year, Amazon began selling physical buttons that customers could press to order items like laundry detergent, dog food, coffee and toilet paper from the company. According to analysts, Amazon
Databricks has released a technical preview of Apache Spark 2.0, which is available as part of the Databricks Community Edition cloud computing big data platform. Key features in Spark 2.0
Google has released two new artificial intelligence (AI) tools under open source licenses. The first, SyntaxNet, is a neural network framework for building applications that understand natural language. The second,
“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough
GitHub has unveiled the 1.0 release of its Electron application development framework. Formerly known as Atom Shell, Electron utilizes Web technologies like CSS, HTML and JavaScript to build native desktop
At the Internet of Things World Conference and Exposition, SAP announced that it was expanding its SAP HANA Cloud Platform for IoT and that it had forged several new IoT
