Category: Software

GitHub is increasing efforts to help developers understand and assert their legal rights to source code when challenged under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Leveraging its $1 million Developer Defense Fund founded

Which is more important, software or the documentation that makes that software more usable and useful? Framed that way, it would be reasonable to assume both creators should make roughly the same, given similar seniority/geography/etc.

With Microsoft’s .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) cross-platform framework due later this year, serving as the next generation of Xamarin Forms, the company announced plans to sunset its Xamarin Community Toolkit for mobile

Analytics are core to all modern SaaS applications. There is no way to successfully operate a SaaS application without monitoring how it is performing, what it’s doing internally, and how successful it is at accomplishing

Looking to ramp up for huge cloud projects but limited by the number of qualified people you can find? You’re not alone.  According to Gartner, “insufficient cloud [infrastructure-as-a-service] skills will delay half

Heroku has long been held up as the gold-standard platform as a service (PaaS) for software developers to easily deploy their code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, while others see it as akin to

I was listening to my podcast feed again this weekend, and beyond the true crime shows, I did listen to something more work related. The question asked on this episode was a profound one, not typically asked in the tech

Databases are good at inserting, updating, querying, and deleting data and representing the data’s current state. Developers rely on data consistency so APIs can perform the correct transactions and applications can retrieve

Until recently, explainability was largely seen as an important but narrowly scoped requirement towards the end of the AI model development process. Now, explainability is being regarded as a multi-layered requirement that

Industry clouds are a bundle of cloud services, tools, and applications that focus on the most important use cases in a specific industry. The most common industry clouds are designed for the retail, healthcare, government,

Open VSX Registry, a repository of extensions for Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code and other developer tools, is now under the jurisdiction of the Eclipse Foundation. Bult on the Eclipse Open VSX project, the public repository

ECMAScript 2021, the planned next version of the official specification underlying JavaScript, is set to add capabilities for strings and promises. The specification is under the jurisdiction of ECMA International. Expected

The creators of Deno have formed the Deno Company, a business venture around the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime and rival to Node.js. In a bulletin on March 29, Deno creator Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder, both of whom also led

Given enough cash and luck, you can manufacture a pop phenomenon like One Direction. But if you want to foster a popular open source project, no amount of cash is going to buy success. Instead, as Artillery.io founder Hassy

The AI industry is playing a dangerous game right now in its embrace of a new generation of citizen developers. On the one hand, AI solution providers, consultants, and others are talking a good talk around “responsible