Category: Development Software

May 13, 2019

A narrowly divided Supreme Court is allowing a group of consumers to move forward with a lawsuit charging that Apple overcharges customers for App Store purchases. Apple had asked courts to throw out the lawsuit, arguing that the law only […]

April 29, 2019

Last year at its Build developer conference, Microsoft gave quite a bit of time on Day 1 to a conceptual demo about meetings of the future. In that demo, futuristic Cortana-enabled conferencing capabilities figured heavily as did Cortana integration with […]

April 8, 2019

ASP.Net Core is a fast, lightweight, open-source, cross-platform rewrite of the ASP.Net framework that runs on Windows, Linux, and even Mac OS X. Speed is one of the key features of ASP.Net Core, meaning that the ASP.Net Core framework is […]

April 4, 2019

A few months ago, a colleague recommended an autocomplete tool to me called TabNine. It was closed source, he said, but he wasn’t at all shy about using it despite being a proponent of open-source technology. I was impressed with […]

March 27, 2019

Credit reporting agency Equifax and Fair Isaac, which created and manages the FICO credit score, are announcing that they will partner to sell each other’s services to banks, according to the Wall Street Journal. The two companies plan to eventually […]

March 15, 2019

Do cloud-oriented devops people need to be people-oriented, as well as technology-oriented? That seems to be the case, according to a new report by the Devops Institute. When it comes to recruitment, the study found that there is an equal […]

March 13, 2019

After some early peeks at features from leaks, Google has released its Android Q developer beta, which you can use if you own any Pixel phone, from the latest Google Pixel 3 all the way back to the first Pixel […]

March 11, 2019

Android Q, the next version of the mobile operating system, could be launching its developer preview later today, thanks to speculation over a date filter in Google’s bug tracker. A template explaining how to file bug reports for Android Q […]

March 8, 2019

Freelance developers need to be explicitly told to write code that stores passwords in a safe and secure manner, a recent study has revealed. In an experiment that involved 43 programmers hired via the Freelancer.com platform, University of Bonn academics […]

March 7, 2019

In the last post, I introduced Blockstack and discussed the two critical components for building decentralized apps, or dapps, on the platform. In this post, we’ll bootstrap our dapp for web development snippets with user authentication and authorization powered by […]