Tag: software development

September 13, 2023

Python is long on convenience and programmer-friendly, but it isn’t the fastest programming language around. Some of Python’s speed limitations are due to its default implementation, CPython, being single-threaded. That is, CPython doesn’t use more than one hardware thread at […]

September 12, 2023

The concept of observability traces back to the 1960s, with Rudolf E. Kalman’s canonical work around decomposing complex systems for human understanding. It was a heady time for new compute systems in aerospace and navigation. The advances in these systems […]

September 11, 2023

Visual Studio 1.82, the newest iteration of Microsoft’s popular open source code editor, features built-in port forwarding, for sharing services over the internet with others. WebAssembly debugging also is highlighted in the release. Introduced September 7, VS Code 1.82 introduces […]

September 7, 2023

With GitHub Enterprise Server 3.10, GitHub promises both developers and administrators more control over repositories, along with enhanced security and compliance controls. Introduced August 29, GitHub Enterprise Server 3.10 is the latest release of GitHub’s self-hosted platform for software development […]

August 29, 2023

The promise of low-code development couldn’t be more seductive. Who doesn’t want to do less work? Who doesn’t want to lean back and let the darn machines pick up the slack? We’ve been telling them what to do for decades, […]

August 21, 2023

Generative AI, ChatGPT, and large language models (LLMs) like GitHub Copilot and other AI code-generation tools are changing software development practices and productivity. McKinsey reports that developers using generative AI tools are happier, more productive, and able to focus on […]

August 8, 2023

Artificial intelligence is changing software development in ways large and small. While many companies race to roll out AI-enabled features, the potential for AI goes beyond the feature level. Rather, AI will become the foundation for most—if not all—SaaS solutions. […]

July 27, 2023

Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is an open source ORM (object-relational mapping) framework that bridges the gap between the object model of your application and the data model of your database. EF Core makes life simpler by allowing you to […]

July 21, 2023

Reactive programming is an important facet of modern software development. It’s often described as a paradigm, but what does that mean? A more useful description is that reactive programming is a way of looking at software as the interaction of […]

July 12, 2023

C++, having already overtaken Java in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, soon could overtake the C language, too. Also rising in the index were JavaScript and Cobol. In the Tiobe index for July 2023, C++ finished third, just […]

June 28, 2023

Proponents of the Rust programming language have formed the Rust Leadership Council, to serve as the top-level governance body of the Rust Project. The change follows some disgruntlement in the Rust community over the project’s leadership and governance. Announced June […]

June 27, 2023

Artificial intelligence has caught on with software developers who build APIs, with 60% of respondents to a recent Postman survey saying they are using generative AI in their jobs. This was just one of the key findings in Postman’s 2023 […]

June 20, 2023

A couple of months ago, CNBC published an article citing the major changes that are coming from artificial intelligence. Google is among the many companies that are making it a priority. We have talked about some of the major changes […]

June 15, 2023

For the 11th consecutive year, web development staple JavaScript was the most commonly used programming language among developers participating in Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey. JavaScript was also the language that most developers surveyed desire, or want to use, followed […]

June 14, 2023

Published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the so-called Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) is a “special publication” (800-218) containing recommendations for mitigating the risk of software security flaws. Created in the wake of the infamous SolarWinds […]

June 1, 2023

Bootstrap 5.3.0, the latest version of the CSS, JavaScript, and HTML web framework, has arrived with an emphasis on dark mode and custom color modes. The final stable release of this update to the mobile-first application framework was announced May […]

April 27, 2023

Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core allow you to easily create RESTful APIs with minimal code and configuration. No matter what type of API we build, it is always important to minimize the amount of data transferred over the network, which […]

April 21, 2023

Low-code and no-code platforms have already played a vital role in helping business users build their own software applications with little or no knowledge of coding. Use of these platforms, though, will reach a tipping point as generative AI is […]

April 17, 2023

Java Development Kit (JDK) 21, due in September as the next long-term support release of Oracle’s standard Java implementation, is taking shape, with sequenced collections, virtual threads, a preview of string templates, and a third preview of a foreign function […]

March 7, 2023

A developer advocate is someone who promotes the interests of developers and works to make it easier for them to use software to accomplish their goals. Developers in this role are “the voice of a community of developers who may […]