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Node-RED 3 Improves Its Node Editor, Runtime Features, and Debugging
Node-RED, the flow-based visual programming environment originally developed by IBM and initially targeted at IoT applications, has reached version 3.0, bringing a number of improvements to the node editor, new features to control flows at runtime, and more.
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Heighliner: an App Development Platform to Bring Stack-as-Code Experience
Helium3 Tech recently launched Heighliner, an open-source and cloud-native application development platform that enables you to deliver your application stack as code. Developers can abstract complicated infrastructure details into human-readable configuration files that you can implement version control, reuse, and share.
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C++ Interpreter Cling Embraces Python Interoperability and Jupyter Notebooks
Cling is an interactive C++ interpreter built on top of LLVM aiming to make C++ more suitable for exploration and rapid application development. In a recent series of articles, research software engineer Vassil Vassilev describes how they are evolving it to enable interoperability with Python, Jupyter Notebooks, and support for hardware accelerators.
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Recent Appian Survey Unveils Worst Aspects of IT Developer Jobs
Low-code provider Appian released a survey among IT developers to gauge their satisfaction at work. According to the survey, the three worst aspects of IT jobs are time spent troubleshooting application issues, pressure due to time constraints and deadlines, and time wasted on repetitive coding task. InfoQ has spoken with Malcolm Ross, vice president of product at Appian, to learn more.
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AWS Amplify Console for Rapid Application Deployment
AWS re:Invent 2018 had numerous announcements of new features and services, including the new AWS Amplify Console, a continuous deployment service for mobile web applications.
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Shoutem Aims to Be the WordPress of React Native Mobile Apps
Shoutem has recently launched its new React Native-based app builder, which is being presented to developers as the WordPress for mobile apps. InfoQ has spoken with Shoutem's VP of marketing, Robert Sekulić.
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Android Stats and Tricks from OpenSignal
One blog of note that is furthering the efforts of today’s mobile application developers can be found at the OpenSignal web site. Their recent Android Fragmentation Visualized report offers some unique perspectives on the challenges of writing Android apps.
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OpenXava 4.5 Supports JPA Inheritance Mapping and Automated Business Logic
The latest version of OpenXava, a Java framework for rapid development of enterprise applications, supports all strategies of JPA inheritance mapping and the Automated Business Logic (ABL) library. OpenXava version 4.5 was released last month.
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Rapid Application Development using Naked Objects for .NET
Richard Pawson of Naked Objects offers brief history of the framework and introduction to Naked Objects for .NET. Naked objects can be seen as Domain Driven Design taken to the extreme. With proper annotation, this framework can automatically generate a matching presentation layer in Java or .NET.