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Chef has released a new open source project called Habitat that offers application automation capabilities which could be helpful for enterprises that use DevOps practices. Somewhat similar to containerization, Habitat
Cloud-based enterprise content management vendor Box has launched a new developer website. The service has long courted developers, but this new site marks a heightened effort to reach out. “People
Microsoft has updated Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK), its set of open source artificial intelligence (AI) tools that was first released in January. CNTK 1.5 includes better support for parallel processing
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Docker have signed a partnership that will result in HPE bundling Docker’s container software into much of its hardware, including servers and hyperconverged systems. More
A group calling itself Java EE Guardians has posted a Change.org petition that complains about Oracle’s oversight of Java Enterprise Edition (EE). The group is asking Oracle to clarify its
At the Spark Summit 2016, Databricks launched a new security framework for Apache Spark. Called Databricks Enterprise Security (DBES), the framework includes features like encryption, identity management, role-based access control,
In Rational Tech Adoption, I discussed how to decide about whether or not to adopt new technologies. But that decision is not context-free. There is always a switching cost. If
IBM has unveiled a new cloud development environment called the IBM Data Science Experience. The company says that the new environment, which is based on Apache Spark, is the “first
SonarQube?is a popular open source platform for managing quality in the scope of an application life cycle. It covers the seven axes of quality around the source code, namely???code clones,
IBM has announced that it is joining the R Consortium as a Platinum member, the highest level of membership available. Launched by the Linux Foundation, the R Consortium is a
In an attempt to reach out to more enterprise application development teams, particularly those involved in mobile development, Salesforce is holding its first ever TrailheaDX developer conference. It made several
It is relatively simple to establish what has caused a deadlock in one of your database objects. All you need to do is to know how to manipulate the built
A new study conducted by Vanson Bourne and Sitecore found that consumers are very willing to take action if a brand fails to meet their expectations with its mobile app.
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,
