Category: Development Software

August 15, 2019

I recently participated in an #IDGTECHTalk, a Twitter chat held Thursdays at 12 pm ET that focused on the topic of “The Current and Future State of Coding.” Many of the questions and tweets were about coding languages and frameworks; […]

August 15, 2019

The need to test JavaScript code is straightforward. How else to keep out the bugs and make sure applications run smoothly in the browser or on Node.js? Fortunately, developers have a plethora of options when it comes to JavaScript testing. […]

August 12, 2019

Reference docs and spreadsheets seemingly make the world go ’round, but what if employees could just close those tabs for good without losing that knowledge? One startup is taking on that complicated challenge. Predictably, the solution is quite complicated as […]

August 8, 2019

API stands for application programming interface, a concept that applies everywhere from command-line tools to enterprise Java code to Ruby on Rails web apps. An API is a way to programmatically interact with a separate software component or resource. Unless […]

August 6, 2019

If approved, you’ll get the digital version of the card in your Apple Wallet immediately and can request for a physical card to be sent via snail mail. The Verge got some hands-on time with the titanium card and said […]

July 29, 2019

When news broke last month that the U.S. was blocking League of Legends in Iran and Syria due to trade restrictions imposed on developer Riot Games, it only managed to disappoint players who were faced with the prospect of having […]

July 24, 2019

Most discussions of developers making use of machine learning revolve around creating AI-powered applications and the tools used to create them: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, and so on. But there is another way machine learning is impacting software development: by way […]

July 23, 2019

Google on Tuesday announced new and enhanced contact center tools, with improvements to the underlying speech recognition technology. The improvements, which are the most significant since Google announced its Contact Center AI last July, will impact services for building voice […]

July 16, 2019

Seeking to solve “planet-scale” problems, Microsoft has open-sourced its Quantum Development Kit, or QDK, a software development kit for building scalable quantum computing systems. The QDK features Q#, a high-level quantum-focused programming language that integrates with Visual Studio and Visual […]

July 10, 2019

A proposal floating in the OpenJDK community seeks to jumpstart Java on Apple’s iOS. The plan involves restarting work on the OpenJDK Mobile project, which is intended to build the OpenJDK classes and API for iOS and Android, said Johan […]