• The Agile Architect

    How To Be a Superhero Software Developer, Agile or Not

    If you've seen any trailers for movies lately, you know that superheroes are the new hotness. In a blatant rip-off of the genre, our Agile Architect describes how to have your own secret origin as a super software developer.

  • News

    Firm Seeks Overhaul of Mobile App Metrics To Improve User Experience

    Mobile app analytics firm Apteligent believes developers are focusing on the wrong metrics when it comes to improving the UX.

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    Twitter Adds Real-Time Analytics to Mobile App Tool

    Twitter has added real-time analytics to its Fabric tool for tracking mobile app performance.

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    Box Focusing on the Developer Experience

    Box, the enterprise content management and collaboration platform provider, has launched a new developer Web site featuring an updated set of reference documents, quick-start guides, tutorials and sample code

  • Open Source Wins: Now What?

    While covering HPE's invitation to open source developers to contribute code to The Machine project to reinvent computing, I had the opportunity to talk with a real veteran of the Open Source Wars, who with colleagues has been having conversations where they look at one another and exclaim: "Oh my god, we won! Now what?"

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    HPE Looks to Open Sourcers for Help with The Machine

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise is reaching out to open source software developers for help with its ambitious effort to rethink computing from the ground up, known as The Machine.

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    Microsoft Updates Visual Studio Code, Windows App Studio

    Visual Studio Code got that terminal integration users have been asking for in the new version 1.2, while the June release of Windows App Studio now boasts a new REST API Data Source, its most requested feature.

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    New 'Slim' Build Highlights jQuery 3.0 Final Release

    jQuery, the big daddy of JavaScript libraries, has been moved to version 3.0 after a 20-month development effort, featuring a new "slim" version and numerous other enhancements.

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    Xamarin Updates Cross-Platform Mobile App Dev Tools

    Xamarin, the cross-platform mobile app development company that's now a Microsoft unit, updated the tooling in its standalone IDE and its Visual Studio counterpart, along with platform-specific SDKs.

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    Databricks Unveils Community Edition for Learning Spark, Security Framework

    Databricks, a commercial champion of the open source Apache Spark Big Data analytics project founded by the technology's creators, introduced a new free community edition of its Spark-based data platform along with a new security framework.

  • The 'Sunsetting' of Kenai and java.net

    Oracle's decision to shut down the java.net and kenai.com collaborative Web sites by next April has the Java community -- especially the Java EE community -- buzzing.

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    Java Still Top Language in an Increasingly Polyglot World

    The language popularity monitors at TIOBE Software say their June Programming Community Index is something of a milestone: for the first time in the history of the Index, a language needed a rating of more than 1.0 percent to be part of the top 20. What this means, TIOBE says, is that the number of real market leaders is declining.

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    Mendix Low-Code Mobile Dev Platform Connects IoT, Big Data and Machine Learning

    Mendix today announced a new version of its low-code mobile development platform, designed to help developers build "Smart Apps" with connectors to accommodate emerging trends such as the Internet of Things, Big Data and machine learning.

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    IBM Announces Spark Development Environment in the Cloud

    IBM, which last year announced a huge investment in Apache Spark technology as part of a mission to transform it into a kind of "analytics OS," today took that investment a step further by announcing a Spark development environment housed on its IBM Cloud Bluemix platform.

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    Splice Machine Open Sources Big Data RDBMS

    Splice Machine, which tackles Big Data analytics with a SQL-based relational database management system rather than the more common NoSQL approach, today announced it's open sourcing its technology.

  • Reza Rahman: Oracle and Google Should Be Working Together

    The recent court decision that Google's use of 37 Java APIs in the development of its Android OS was a "fair use" of that technology and did not infringe on Oracle-owned copyrights came as a relief to the developer community, but former Oracle Java EE community evangelist Reza Rahman says both sides are wrong because neither is serving the developer community.

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    Microsoft, MapR Lead Spark Charge

    The Spark Summit conference is now underway in San Francisco, where Microsoft and MapR Technologies are leading the charge of new product announcements based on the popular open source Big Data analytics technology.

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    Firms Explain How To Overcome Open Source Development Challenges

    Who better to explain how to overcome the challenges of managing open source projects and cultures than open source champions Red Hat and Docker? Both published brand-new resources detailing their in-house processes and best practices for community software development.

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    Google Switching to Standard SQL for BigQuery Analytics Service

    Google is abandoning its homegrown SQL variant as the recommended default query language for its BigQuery service in favor of a new standard-compliant dialect in the works for the managed data warehouse designed for Big Data analytics.

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    Platform Provides 'Instant Replay' of Mobile App Crashes

    What do you do when you've checked the logs, examined the user reports and pored over stack traces but still can't find out what's causing your mobile app to crash? Buddybuild says it has the answer with a new feature just added to its mobile development platform: a video "instant replay" of what happened to cause the crash.