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Last week, Bloomberg Businessweek published a really long (30,000+ words) article titled “What Is Code?” It’s been receiving high praise from both developers and non-developers, and it offers an incredibly
Microsoft is reshuffling its executive leadership and reconfiguring some of its teams. Four key leaders are leaving their positions: Stephen Elop, former Nokia CEO and head of Microsoft’s devices business;
The Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) pattern isolates the data querying aspects of an application from the insert, update and delete operations. There are limited use cases regarding when you
Google’s App Engine for PHP cloud computing service has exited beta and is now generally available. Google’s cloud development platform now supports four scripting languages: Python, Java, Go and Python.
IT resourcing firm Mondo has released a new report detailing salary ranges associated with various job titles. Many IT job titles have seen pay increases over the past year, with
Software supply chain management vendor Sonatype has conducted a review of 1,500 applications that were built using open source components and found that on average, each application inherited 24 severe
Facebook has released a mobile testing tool called Infer under an open source license. Infer can spot errors in Objective-C, Java and C, making it capable of testing both iOS
IBM is making a big investment in Apache Spark. The company announced plans to assign 3500 researchers to work on the open source big data project. ?I like to think
On Thursday, Amazon announced the addition of a new type of cloud computing instance to its EC2 service. The company says that its M4 instances will be particularly good for
At its Cisco Live 2015 event, Cisco announced that 35 software developers have signed on to be part of the company’s Intercloud initiative. Introduced last year, Intercloud is Cisco’s effort
All professions and crafts have tools. Mastering the tools is a big part of being successful and software development is no different. If anything, there are more tools to choose
At the Hadoop Summit, Mike Gualtieri, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, told attendees that Hadoop is “a data operating system and a fundamental data platform that in the next couple
Compuware has released the results of a new survey that suggests trouble ahead for large enterprises that rely on mainframes. While 88 percent of CIOs at very large enterprises said
More than 30 customer-requested enhancements deliver readiness for Windows 10, Visual Studio 2015, SHA 256 Certificates and more Maidenhead, U.K. – June 10, 2015 – Flexera Software, the leading provider
This easy to use plug and play virus removal USB drive reaches deep into the operating systems going beyond traditional software based AV The Netherlands – June 9th 2015 –
At the Hadoop Summit, MapR Technologies announced the release of the fifth version of its MapR Hadoop distribution. According to the company, the update offers notable performance improvements. It speeds
During the keynote address on the first day of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the company made a number of noteworthy announcements. The new streaming music service is getting most
London, UK – 9 June, 2015 – Ness Software Engineering Services (SES), a leading provider of software product engineering services, today launched its portfolio of digital transformation services designed to
The New York Times is reporting that the Walt Disney Company recently laid off about 250 technology workers, including some software developers, and replaced them with foreign workers holding H-1B
NoSQL database vendor Couchbase has launched a new programming language called N1QL (pronounced “nickel”). Short for “Non-first Normal Form Query Language,” N1QL allows developers to perform SQL-like queries on JSON
CA Technologies has purchased Grid-Tools, a development and testing tool vendor, for an undisclosed sum. Just over a week ago, CA bought Rally Software, another development tool vendor. Both acquisitions
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001. Also referenced as Rijndael,
At the Computex conference in Taiwan, Microsoft and Toshiba announced that they would be partnering together on a range of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and services. The companies expect
Cisco has announced that it will buy Piston Cloud Computing for an undisclosed sum. Piston was a startup that offered a distribution of the OpenStack open source cloud computing platform.
The market researchers at IDC have released a new report predicting that the Internet of Things (IoT) market will be worth $1.7 trillion by 2020. Devices such as modules and
Facebook has announced that it is opening an artificial intelligence research facility in Paris, France. Many of the world’s leading AI researchers, including Yann LeCun, the director of Facebook’s artificial-intelligence
HP has released the ninth version of HP Helion CloudSystem, its cloud orchestration suite. It comes in two versions: Enterprise for large organizations and Foundation for smaller firms. Designed for
Last week’s Google I/O 2015 event saw a slew of announcements, most notably the announcement of Android M. A number of new features were also in the upcoming 7.5 version
For some time, Microsoft has been promising that Windows 10 would become available this summer. Now it has nailed down a specific date: July 29. On that date, Windows 7
In my previous article, “Top 10 Reasons Your Company Should Contribute to Open Source Projects“, I listed the why?of open source. In this article I’ll explain the how. Many developers
