Category: Development Software

February 23, 2024

Artificial intelligence has rapidly evolved from a buzzword to a crucial tool in software development and testing, marking a transformative shift in the industry. As someone closely involved in this field, I have observed AI’s role in enhancing various development […]

February 22, 2024

Java’s virtual threads, introduced in JDK 21 in September 2023 to make it easier to write and maintain concurrent applications, has suffered from a “pinning” issue that arises with synchronized methods or synchronized statements. Oracle detailed the virtual thread pinning […]

February 19, 2024

JEP 466, Class-File API (Second Preview), has been promoted from its JEP Draft 8324965 to Candidate status. This JEP proposes a second round of preview to obtain feedback from the previous round of preview: JEP 457, Class-File API (Preview), to […]

February 19, 2024

Last week, Microsoft revealed the availability of the .NET Aspire – third preview. Preview 3 brings changes including UI improvements to the dashboard, and new component support for Azure OpenAI, Kafka, Oracle, MySQL, CosmosDB & Orleans, and many more. The […]

February 15, 2024

A few months after officially launching .NET 8, Microsoft is now preparing for the next generation of its open-source development platform. .NET 9, scheduled to arrive in November 2024, will be shaped by a “vision” focused on two main development […]

February 15, 2024

Classes, structs, and records are fundamental concepts in C# programming. Each is a different kind of type, with different features, capabilities, and limitations. To make matters more confusing, they have features and characteristics in common. Classes are reference types that […]

February 14, 2024

Java’s profiling capabilities would be improved within the Java Flight Recorder (JFR), a tool for collecting diagnostic and profiling data in running Java applications, under a proposal floating in the OpenJDK community. Called Skogsluft, the project would introduce advanced profiling […]

February 13, 2024

Microsoft is shipping version 4.0 of its Graph Toolkit, a set of components for working with the Microsoft Graph. The update brings the search components to general availability, enhances the developer experience, and fixes bugs. Microsoft Graph is a set […]

February 12, 2024

JEP 460, Vector API (Seventh Incubator), has been Closed / Delivered for JDK 22. This JEP, under the auspices of Project Panama, incorporates enhancements in response to feedback from the previous six rounds of incubation: JEP 448, Vector API (Sixth Incubator), delivered […]

February 8, 2024

Userware has released OpenSilver 2.1, an update to its open-source successor to Microsoft’s discontinued Silverlight framework for building rich web applications. OpenSilver 2.1 adds support for Microsoft’s F# language. Introduced February 6, OpenSilver 2.1 can be downloaded from the project […]

February 7, 2024

One reason Python is a prime choice for web development is the breadth of web frameworks available in the language. Among the most popular and useful is Flask, which lets you start simple (“one drop at a time”) but grows […]

February 5, 2024

Another update to the Astro web framework for content-driven websites has arrived. Only weeks since the release of Astro 4.2, Astro 4.3 brings more control over HTML file output and adds experimental domain support for different international (i18n) locales. Astro […]

February 2, 2024

Visual Studio Code 1.86, the January 2024 release of Microsoft’s code editor, introduces a voice command, “Hey Code,” that starts a session with Copilot Chat. The new release also brings per-window zoom levels. Unveiled February 1, Visual Studio Code 1.86 […]

February 2, 2024

JEP 455, Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Preview), has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 23. This JEP, under the auspices of Project Amber, proposes to enhance pattern matching by allowing primitive type patterns […]

February 1, 2024

One of the great advantages of using the public cloud is the ability to deploy applications and services at scale. But scale has a flip side, as working with dozens or hundreds of servers imposes new constraints on systems administration. […]

February 1, 2024

Test automation can support continuous mobile software development, by reducing manual testing efforts, minimizing human errors, and accelerating the release cycle. Burak Ergören shared his experiences from automating their mobile testing at QA Challenge Accepted 2023. Ergören mentioned that with […]

February 1, 2024

Microsoft’s November release of .NET 8 brought all kinds of great new features. One of the nice improvements introduced in ASP.NET Core 8 is IExceptionHandler, an interface that makes it easier to handle exceptions gracefully in ASP.NET Core web applications. […]

January 30, 2024

Stability AI released two sets of pre-trained model weights for Stable LM 2, a 1.6B parameter language model. Stable LM 2 is trained on 2 trillion tokens of text data from seven languages and can be run on common laptop […]

January 30, 2024

TypeScript 5.4, a planned update to the strongly typed JavaScript variant from Microsoft, has reached beta availability. New capabilities include preserved narrowing within function closures created after the last assignment and a NoInfer type to block inferences to valid but […]

January 29, 2024

This week’s Java roundup for January 22nd, 2024 features news highlighting: WildFly 31.0.0, Eclipse Store 1.1.0, BellSoft Liberica Native Image Kit, multiple Quarkus and JHipster Lite releases and Jakarta EE 11 updates. OpenJDK After its review had concluded JEP 455, […]