Category: Software Category

July 25, 2024

In the fast-changing field service management landscape, keeping up with technology is necessary for maintaining competitiveness. In 2024, several new trends in field service management software are poised to change business operations, revolutionizing productivity, efficiency and customer satisfaction. 1. AI […]

July 25, 2024

Rust 1.80, the latest version of the popular memory-safe programming language, has been released, featuring “lazy” types to delay initialization of data until their first access. Rust 1.80 was unveiled on July 25. Developers with a previous version of Rust […]

July 24, 2024

Meta’s newly unveiled Llama 3.1 family of large language models (LLMs), which includes a 405 billion parameter model as well as 70 billion parameter and 8 billion parameter variants, is a boon for enterprises and a bane for proprietary LLM […]

July 24, 2024

Oracle has updated its Java development extension for Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor, with the extension supporting early-access builds of the planned JDK 23 release of Java. The extension also adds the ability to manage dependencies in projects that do […]

July 19, 2024

Last week Microsoft released the sixth preview of the .NET 9 framework, introducing several updates across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, and frameworks such as ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and .NET MAUI. As stated, this release aims to enhance performance, […]

July 18, 2024

Developer productivity is neither well-understood nor enabled, according to Atlassian’s just-released State of Developer Experience Report 2024. The report also found that interest in the developer experience, or DX, is growing but efforts are lagging. Announced July 15 and accessible […]

July 18, 2024

The latest version of OpenSilver 3.0, a remake of Microsoft’s retired Silverlight web application framework, introduces a new drag-and-drop user interface designer with AI code generation. It also brings OpenSilver to VS Code and non-Windows platforms. OpenSilver was launched in […]

July 17, 2024

Mozilla released Firefox 128 a week ago, introducing some improvements for local text translation, UI, DNS proxies, and more. The list of changes for the new browser also includes a note about Privacy Preserving Attribution (PPA), an experimental API designed […]

July 12, 2024

Open AI, the company behind the popular AI ​​chatbot Chat GPT, has now developed an evaluation scale to assess how closely AI models can approach human levels of intelligence, according to a Bloomberg report. The scale has a total of […]

July 11, 2024

The release of JDK 21 brought into general availability a much-publicized new function, Java Virtual Threads. This feature marks a significant leap forward in how Java developers can better handle parallelism in their applications. Some of the aims of Java […]

July 11, 2024

Platform engineering is about accelerating and empowering developers to deliver more product value faster over time. According to Jessica Andersson, most companies don’t invest in platform engineering until they reach a certain size. At QCon London she presented how their […]

July 10, 2024

Remaining compe­titive in the modern construction fie­ld involves more than skilled worke­rs and quality building supplies. As technology advances, many construction busine­sses now use custom software to improve­ efficiency. A professional construction software development company can cre­ate tailored programs addressing […]

July 10, 2024

California Judge Jon Tigar has dismissed most of the claims from the class-action lawsuit filed by developers who claimed that GitHub Copilot was unlawfully copying their code. The decision marks a significant win for the generative AI industry. The plaintiffs, […]

July 9, 2024

In 2007, some of the programmers at Google looked at their options for writing software and didn’t like what they saw. They needed to manage millions of lines of code that would be constantly storing and shipping data for the […]

July 9, 2024

Rust has leaped to its highest position ever in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity, scaling to the 13th spot this month, with placement in the top 10 anticipated in an upcoming edition. Previously, Rust has never gone higher […]

July 8, 2024

In this article, I will share tips, tricks, and advice on architecting software for a greener future. I’ve been discussing this topic for several years. Previously, I might have started with some NASA data showing global temperatures, carbon dioxide levels, […]

July 8, 2024

The initial set of Project Leyden early-access builds is now available for the Java community. Initially proposed in April 2020, the primary goal of Project Leyden is to “improve the startup time, time to peak performance, and footprint of Java […]

July 5, 2024

Version 8 of QuestDB, an open-source time series database designed for high-performance and efficient handling of time series data, has been released. This release includes a new VARCHAR data type as a default (over STRING) that aims to provide better […]

July 3, 2024

Refit is an open-source library for .NET, .NET Core, and Xamarin that makes consuming REST APIs simpler and easier by enabling you to define the API endpoints as C# interfaces, thereby eliminating the need to create HTTP requests and parse […]

July 3, 2024

The latest update of Visual Studio Code is previewing an alternative visualization of incoming and outgoing changes. The update also includes a new tool that enhances environment discovery for Python installations. Introduced July 3, Visual Studio Code 1.91, also known […]