Tag: application

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

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

Cisco on Wednesday disclosed a maximum-security vulnerability that allows remote threat actors with no authentication to change the password of any user, including those of administrators with accounts, on Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem devices. The Cisco Smart Software Manager […]

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 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 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 […]

July 2, 2024

Most of you should be familiar with the movie Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. There are so many things in this movie to entertain us: vibrant colors, locations, sun, water, an all-star cast, etc. If you think of moviemaking, […]

July 2, 2024

The Java in Education, launched by the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee, is making significant strides in promoting Java technology within educational institutions. This program seeks to bridge the gap between academia and industry, ensuring that Java remains a […]

July 1, 2024

Your generative AI project is almost certainly going to fail. But take heart: You probably shouldn’t have been using AI to solve your business problem, anyway. This seems to be an accepted fact among the data science crowd, but that […]

June 26, 2024

Malicious actors have been pressing their advantage against vulnerable software supply chains with exponentially increasing attacks. Enterprises have been hampered in fighting back by lack of internal consensus on their security capabilities and practices. Recent survey findings uncovered multiple areas […]

June 25, 2024

The OpenJDK’s Project Leyden, an effort to improve the startup time, time to peak performance, and footprint of Java programs, has published its first early-access build. Accessible from java.jdk.net, the initial Project Leyden release focuses on improving application startup time, […]

June 25, 2024

The chatbots will be powered by Google’s Gemini family of large language models, according to The Information’s report. There’s no word on who the virtual celebrities will be based on. This has all been done before, of course. Meta has […]