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Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s free, lightweight, cross-platform text editor, has officially reached 1.0 status. According to Microsoft, more than 2 million people have tried Visual Studio Code since its first
Before the Agile Manifesto?there was Extreme Programming. I discovered it through the http://c2.com wiki???the first wiki and was instantly impressed. Extreme programming is indeed the extreme. There are values such
Many in the mobile development industry use Facebook’s React Native framework to build user interfaces for Android and iOS apps; now React Native is coming to Windows 10 and Tizen.
A report from a company called Zuora says that the “subscription economy” is a $100 billion market for IT. The subscription economy is all about signing up for services that
Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, it has come to light that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) paid IBM $336,413.59 for mobile development services. That amount included $47,400
LinkedIn has released Dr. Elephant, an internally developed tool for tuning Hadoop and Spark, under an open source license. “At LinkedIn, we made it compulsory for the developers to use
The Azure Batch?service is now available for general use. It is a fully managed service hosted in Azure that lets you configure scheduled jobs and supports performing compute resource management
Market research firm IDC is forecasting that enterprise spending on cloud computing infrastructure spending will climb 18.9 percent to reach $38.2 billion this year. Private cloud infrastructure sales will likely
It is possible to prevent a system shutdown from within your C# apps. Basically the premise is as follows: Override the WndProc event so that when a system shutdown event
In this article I’ll cover the history of software from a social and legal perspective. It is an amazing story that is still unfolding today. You will learn about software
In a letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wrote that his company’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing division will likely top $10 billion in sales this year. He
Google has launched a new cross-platform API for its Cloud Datastore cloud-based NoSQL database. According to the company, the new API will improve performance and reliability for applications accessing Cloud
IBM and SAP have announced that they have a new partnership focused on integrating their cognitive computing technology and cloud computing platforms. The two companies have worked together in the
Development tool vendor SmartBear Software has released a new test automation solution it calls TestLeft. It allows enterprise application development teams to create tests within their integrated development environments (IDEs),
When building, developing and troubleshooting complex systems everybody agrees that modularity is the way to go. Different parts or components need to interact only through well-defined interfaces. This way the
The White House has published a new proposal titled “Federal Source Code Policy ? Achieving Efficiency, Transparency, and Innovation through Reusable and Open Source Software,” which calls on government agencies
A very quick way to import data from Excel into SQL Server through code is to execute the following query: SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0′,’Excel 12.0;Database=C:ExcelFileToImport.xlsx’, [SheetWhereDataIsLocated$]) This is known as
During last week’s Build 2016 development conference, Microsoft unveiled an updated version of Graph (formerly the Office 365 Unified API) that will make it easier to build apps that utilize
Nginx has released the results of a new survey of CIOs which found that 20 percent of those polled currently have production workloads running in containers. And among those with
At the second day of the Build 2016 development conference, the biggest news was that Microsoft is open-sourcing the Xamarin mobile development platform and integrating the tool into its Visual
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has always been available under an open source license, but downloads usually require a support subscription. However, the company is now offering its flagship Linux
As projects become more complex and involve a greater number of people, the importance of using version control software during development is increasing exponentially. That is why I have compiled
A company called Cockroach Labs has released a public beta version of a NoSQL database called CockroachDB. First announced in 2014, CockroachDB is designed to survive almost anything?much like its
Microsoft covered a lot of topics during the first day of its Build 2016 development conference, but one news item generated more developer interest than all the others: Bash and
This week’s Strata + Hadoop World conference has proved a popular place for vendors to make announcements related to their big data analytics offerings. For example, IBM launched IBM z/OS
In high-traffic Web applications, a master-slave database architecture is used to optimize performance by separating read and write operations and to prevent loss of data in case of a server
Oracle has increased the amount of damages it is seeking in its long-running copyright dispute with Google that centers on the use of Java APIs in Android. Oracle now wants
Oracle has launched a new piece of cloud computing hardware called the Cloud Machine. The server will run Oracle Cloud at Customer, software which includes the same APIs as the
Web applications are arguably the most common type of application developed these days. The browser is ubiquitous and writing a Web application ensures that your application will be able to
When a person comes to a page, it is actually possible to redirect them to a new page. Because someone might have bookmarked the page, you can use this when
