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The following code converts a delimited text file to a DataTable: Private Function CreateDataTable(ByVal path As String, ByVal headers As Boolean, ByVal delimiter As Char) As DataTable Dim dt As
The following code returns the amount of times that a char appears in a stringPrivate Function GetLetterCount(ByVal input As String, ByVal letter As Char) As Integer Return input.ToCharArray().Count(Function(c) c =
Development Teams Can Now Use Git to Collaborate on Code That Is Automatically Synchronised with a Mainline Branch for DevOps Efficiency and SecurityWOKINGHAM (UK), October 6, 2015 – Perforce Software
The big news in this month’s update to the Tiobe index of programming language popularity is that Objective-C fell out of the top ten for the first time in five
Microsoft has released Tools for Apache Cordova CLI 1.0.0, or Taco. It includes a number of command line utilities that make it easier for OS X and Windows users to
Back in 2011, HP acquired Autonomy, a UK-based enterprise software firm with big data expertise. The deal quickly went bad with HP alleging accounting improprieties and filing a $5 billion
During its GitHub Universe conference, GitHub announced several improvements to its code-sharing service, which is incredibly popular among open source developers and enterprise application development teams. First, the company announced
Management consultancy Accenture has released a new report titled “Growing the Digital Business: Spotlight on Mobile Apps,” which details some of the challenges facing enterprise mobile development. According to the
IBM has added a new option for enterprises interested in its Bluemix platform as a service: Bluemix Local. This latest iteration of Bluemix runs behind the corporate firewall and enables
Open source development has never been more prevalent and successful than it is today. The biggest players regularly publish the latest and greatest technology with permissive licenses. Some companies even
During its AzureCon event, Microsoft made three big product announcements related to its Azure cloud computing services. First is the new Azure IoT Service. The Internet of Things service includes
Intuit, the company that makes the QuickBase low-code development platform, has released a new report on the impact of “citizen developers” in the enterprise. Intuit defines citizen developers as “empowered
The SQL Elastic Database Pool?allows you to run SQL databases with a private pool of resources dedicated for that purpose. Azure SQL database capabilities have been significantly enhanced recently to
Ahead of its AzureCon event, Microsoft has announced several improvements to Azure’s big data capabilities. Most notably, the company launched Azure Data Lake Store, an expansion of Azure Data Lake.
Application life cycle management (ALM) is the process of creating application software and includes many different aspects???such as gathering requirements, architecture and detailed design, implementation, testing, change management, maintenance, integration,
Databricks has released its 2015 Spark Survey, which reveals increasing interest in the open source real-time processing technology. According to the report, Apache Spark has experience 283 percent growth among
Innovation in programming language design has been very visible over the last two decades. Java was the catalyst. It introduced many novel concepts such as garbage collection, the Java Virtual
In a conference call to announce quarterly earnings, BlackBerry confirmed rumors that it plans to release a new smartphone called the Priv that will feature a slide-out keyboard and will
The developers of the KVM hypervisor have launched a new NoSQL database called ScyllaDB that boasts some impressive performance numbers. ScyllaDB is fully compatible with the open source Apache Cassandra
Google has launched a beta trial of a new service designed to help organizations better manage Spark and Hadoop clusters running in its cloud computing environment. Called Cloud Dataproc, the
Backblaze, a cloud backup vendor, is getting into the infrastructure as a service cloud storage business, and it is setting its prices extremely low in a direct challenge to Amazon,
Webhooks?is a popular pattern that has been available for a while now and has already been exposed by some popular service providers such as DropBox, GitHub, PayPal and MailChimp, amongst
Earlier this month, JetBrains announced that it would begin offering its development tools on a subscription basis instead of under a perpetual license. Pushback from customers was immediate and vociferous,
Web companies that rely on Amazon’s cloud computing service experienced downtime over the weekend when a problem with the AWS DynamoDB database resulted in outages. Affected services included Tinder, IMDb
DBArtisan 2016??, Rapid SQL?? 2016, plus new advanced add-on capabilities for SQL performance management are now availableMaidenhead, U.K. – September 22, 2015 – Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of software
IBM has released a new tool that gives enterprises visibility into the third-party apps their employees use and boosts organizations access control and data security capabilities for those apps. Called
Although it was once an avowed enemy of open source software in general and Linux in particular, Microsoft has developed its own version of Linux. Called Azure Cloud Switch (ACS),
What Is Agile? Agile programming, or agile software development, is a group of software development methods which have become very popular and widely used recently. Its basic idea is to
This new end-to-end collection brings together charting, reporting, grids, UI controls, debugging, analytics, and IoT components and tools in a single productivity solutionMaidenhead, U.K. ??? September 18, 2015 ??? Embarcadero
A new technology industry lobbying group called fwd.us wants the government to allow more highly skilled workers from foreign countries into the United States. Created by Mark Zuckerburg, Bill Gates,
