Category: Development Software

November 20, 2023

Measuring developer productivity has long been a Holy Grail of business. And like the Holy Grail, it has been elusive. But based on our work with companies from a range of industries, we think we may have figured out a […]

November 20, 2023

Microsoft released .NET 8, and one of the most notable news within the launch was .NET Aspire. A new and cloud-native development stack for building resilient, observable, and configurable cloud-native applications within the dotnet. .NET Aspire includes a selected set […]

November 20, 2023

After its review has concluded, JEP 459: String Templates (Second Preview), has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 22. This JEP provides a second preview from the first round of preview: JEP 430, String Templates (Preview), […]

November 16, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, let’s not kid ourselves about how fast we’re moving. Many of us, and the software we build, are still too slow. How do we know we’re even making progress? To know for sure that things […]

November 16, 2023

One of the recurring themes of recent developer platform and tool releases, especially around .NET, is developer productivity. That’s not surprising, considering the current economic climate and its impact on staffing levels. We’ve all been tasked to do more with […]

November 16, 2023

In this article, we take a deeper look at the practice and purpose of agile coaching. We find out why interactions are the most essential focus in agile coaching – and also the basis of learning and professional development for […]

November 15, 2023

C# 12, the latest edition of Microsoft’s popular object-oriented programming language, is now available as a production release, offering a simplified syntax and faster program execution. C# 12 was unveiled as part of the .NET 8 software development platform on […]

November 15, 2023

When you want to work with a relational database in Python, or most any other programming language, it’s common to write database queries “by hand,” using the SQL syntax supported by most databases. This approach has its downsides, however. Hand-authored […]

November 14, 2023

Imposter syndrome—doubting your abilities to the point that you feel like a fraud—is an evergreen topic of conversation among software developers. For many devs, the explosion of GenAI and AI-powered coding tools makes feeling like an imposter more inevitable than […]

November 14, 2023

Parallel execution is being added to the Rust compiler front end to significantly reduce compile times, according to a November 9 announcement of the parallel rustc working group. Currently in an experimental stage, the parallel front end is due to […]

November 14, 2023

The idea of creating the Application Developer Con came from Mark Fussell – the co-founder of Diagrid and co-creator of Dapr (one of the developer-focused frameworks covered during the day). “We started App Developer Con because we’d come to KubeCon […]

November 10, 2023

Spin 2.0, an open-source tool to build and run serverless WebAssembly apps, gets support for WebAssembly components, improves performance and developer experience, and lays the foundation for Wasm portability across runtimes and implementations. Spin has been using WebAssembly components under […]

November 9, 2023

Whеn wе work in business applications, our job is to writе businеss logic that implements thе businеss rulеs—i.e., the rules that our company has specified for application. How can we make this job easier? One way is to use the […]

November 8, 2023

Pledging to being “re-founded” on its budding Copilot AI coding technology, GitHub on November 8 announced general availability plans for GitHub Copilot Chat and previews of GitHub Copilot Enterprise as well as new AI-powered security capabilities. GitHub Copilot Chat, which […]

November 8, 2023

Oracle is open-sourcing Jipher, a Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) provider built for security and performance that has been used by the company’s cloud platform, the company said on November 7. Jipher was developed for environments with FIPS (Federal Information Processing […]

November 8, 2023

Angular 17, the latest version of Google’s TypeScript-based web app development framework, has arrived, featuring built-in control flow to improve the developer experience. Introduced via a bulletin on November 8, Angular 17 can be accessed from GitHub. Google with Angular […]

November 7, 2023

Low-code platforms are game changers in software development, revolutionizing how businesses construct applications and automate operations. These platforms, in essence, provide a streamlined environment in which developers and even non-technical users can design and launch software applications with minimal hand-coding. […]

November 7, 2023

For all the successes of open source, developers are painfully aware of where the model starts to break down. What happens when the de facto lead developer gets tired of doing all the work, or when different groups start to […]

November 7, 2023

.NET 8, a planned upgrade to Microsoft’s cross-platform, open source development platform, is set to improve identity management, authentication, and authorization thanks to enhancements in the security vein delivered by the ASP.NET Core team. Identity features in .NET 8 are […]

November 6, 2023

The Deno runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly has been updated with new HTML capabilities. The latest updates enhance documentation and client-side navigation in Deno and the Fresh web framework, respectively. Unveiled November 2, Deno 1.38 offers “significant” improvements to […]