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Report: Windows ‘Redstone’ Coming in 2016

Microsoft hasn’t yet officially launched Windows 10, codenamed Threshold, but already rumors are flying about the next version of Windows after that. Unnamed sources tell Neowin and ZDNet that the

Black Duck Hub Checks Security of Open Source Code

These days, most enterprise application development teams regularly incorporate open source code into their applications. Keeping track of all that code and any security vulnerabilities it includes can be very

CoreOS Launches Tectonic Containerization Platform

CoreOS has launched Tectonic, a new containerization platform that unites the company’s Docker-centric Linux distribution with Google’s Kubernetes for container management and orchestration. The announcement makes CoreOS the first company

Upcoming Features in TypeScript 1.5

Last week, Microsoft released an alpha version of its application-scale JavaScript in TypeScript 1.5. The language will now feature a plug-in for one of the most popular editors in Sublime

Apigee Unveils Link IoT Solution

API platform provider Apigee has launched a new Internet of Things (IoT) solution called Apigee Link. It enables developers to build APIs for connecting IoT devices and sensors with services.

Use Best Practices to Secure Your Web Server

As the number of websites on the internet rises, there are more and more people who own a hosting account, many of whom have their own VPS or dedicated servers.

Chef Debuts Delivery DevOps Service

IT automation vendor Chef has launched a new DevOps workflow service it calls Chef Delivery. Like other Chef tools, it automates changes to infrastructure, runtime environments and applications, but it

Why APIs Are Critical for IoT Success

With all the buzz surrounding IoT, it’s fair to assert we are in the midst of another shift in computing. Enabled by cheaper hardware and elastic cloud based services, we

IBM Invests $3 Billion in IoT Business Unit

IBM has announced that it will spend $3 billion over the next four years on a new Internet of Things (IoT) initiative. The company is creating a new business unit

Report: China Is Likely Attacking GitHub

Since last Thursday, the online coding repository GitHub has been under a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that China is likely behind the

Top Tips for Creating Native Library APIs

Libraries are cohesive pieces of reusable code that encapsulate some functionality or business logic and exposes it to developers through an API, which a collection of public functions, classes or

Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio Now Available

Microsoft has released Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio, an open-source extension for the company’s IDE. “Node.js is a platform for building fast, scalable applications using JavaScript,” blogged Sara Itani,

Apple Buys FoundationDB

Apple has purchased NoSQL database vendor FoundationDB. The forty-person startup offered both a community and a commercial version of its database, but downloads of those databases are no longer available

Joyent Debuts Triton Tool for Docker

Joyent has launched a new containerization tool called Triton that it says will simplify the deployment and management of Docker containers. It includes Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure (a Docker engine),

Introduction to Internal DSLs in Scala

Introduction A domain-specific language (DSL) is a language that you design with a specific domain in mind. There are two types of domain-specific languages (DSLs): external and internal. The former

Scriptr Offers JavaScript Engine for IoT

A new startup called Scriptr has launched a JavaScript scripting engine for the Internet of Things (IoT). “Everything you create under scriptr becomes a secure Web services API,” explained Scriptr

Presenting ASP.NET 5

Recently, Scott Guthrie announced the release of ASP.NET 5 on his blog. This release will feature the most radical changes to the popular web development framework in its 15 year

Microsoft Open Sources MSBuild

Microsoft has posted the source code for MSBuild on GitHub and made the tool available under an open source license. The application building platform is integrated into Visual Studio, but