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Yelp Bento Aims to Simplify Modularized UI Development on Android
Yelp has open-sourced Bento, a framework to build modularized user interface on Android by combining different, reusable components into a single screen.
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Microsoft Releases .NET Framework 4.8
Microsoft has released .NET Framework 4.8, the first significant .NET Framework release in two years. The new release includes improvements in multiple product areas, including Windows Forms, WCF, WorkFlow, and WPF. It also includes changes in the Base Class Library (BCL) and in the Common Language Runtime (CLR). All product areas affected by this release received bug fixes.
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NetBeans Promoted to Top-Level Apache Project
NetBeans has been promoted to a top-level Apache project following its donation to the Incubator in 2016. The community has since delivered several nominal features.
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Fully Managed Blockchain Networks with Amazon Managed Blockchain Now Generally Available
Introduced at the AWS re:Invent 2018 event, Amazon Managed Blockchain has left preview and reached general availability. This new service aims to simplify creating and managing scalable blockchain networks based on Hyperledger Fabric and, soon, Ethereum.
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Joseph (Joe) Armstrong: A Tribute
Some of Joe's former colleagues from Ericsson wrote a good-bye note and asked if we would publish it.
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QCon NY (Jun 24-28): New Talks, a Focus on the Skills That Matter & Why You Should Join Us This Year
In the recent Stack Overflow 9th annual survey of over 90,000 software developers, we learned that non-development work remains a productivity challenge for software managers and leaders. At QCon New York, the conference for senior software developers, we have many sessions to help you learn how others have overcome those challenges.
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The Zero Server Web Framework Allows Developers to Create Web Applications with No Configuration
The Zero Server web framework allows developers to create, build and develop web applications with server-side rendering and no configuration. Zero 1.0 accepts a mix of Node.js, React, Vue, HTML, MDX, and static files, with support for Svelte poised to follow suite. Zero 1.0 features automatic configuration, file-system based routing, automatic dependency resolution, and more.
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Google Announces Cloud Code: Extending IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code to Kubernetes Apps
Recently at Google Cloud Next 2019, Google introduced a new developer tool called Cloud Code. With Cloud Code, developers will get a set of plugins for development environments like JetBrains IntelliJ Idea IDE and Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor.
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Google Releases New Java Logging Framework
Google announced the release of a new open-source Java logging framework called Flogger that improves upon existing logging frameworks by reducing the cost of disabled log statements, increasing overall readability, and allowing extensibility.
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DockerHub Breach Exposes Usernames, Hashed Passwords, and GitHub Tokens of 5% of Hub Users
Docker disclosed one of their Hub databases was hacked and a subset of non-financial data, including usernames, hashed passwords, and GitHub and BitBucket tokens, was stolen.
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Teaching the Computer to Play the Chrome Dinosaur Game with TensorFlow.js Machine Learning Library
A simple, yet entertaining and useful for educational purposes application of machine learning, was recently made available on Fritz's HeartBeat Medium publication. Google's machine learning TensorFlow.js library is leveraged in the browser to teach the computer to play the Chrome Dinosaur Game.
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Rust Evolution in 2019 Will Aim for Maturity
This year's roadmap for Rust was the result of an open call for blog posts from the community to set out major priorities for the language development throughout 2019, including reshaping the governance model, bringing to light new language features, and improving the compiler.
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Salesforce Adds Intelligence to its Einstein Services Offering
In a recent press release, Salesforce announced additions to their Einstein platform that target bringing AI solutions to Salesforce developers and admins using a low code, point and click configuration-based solution. The recent additions to the platform include Einstein Translation and Einstein Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
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Kotlin 1.3.30 Brings Kotlin/Native and KAPT Improvements, and More
JetBrains has released Kotlin 1.3.30. This version is mainly a new bug fix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.3. Kotlin 1.3.30 brings Kotlin/Native and KAPT improvements, support for more operations for unsigned types and arrays, debugging improvements on IntelliJ IDEA, and more.
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Eoin Woods on Democratising Software Architecture at ICSA 2019
Last month in ICSA 2019 in Hamburg, Germany, Eoin Woods, CTO at Endava, gave a speech about how we can democratise software architecture. Starting from a historical perspective, Woods described how software systems have evolved in the past three decades. In the 80’s we were all using monolithic architectures, which evolved into distributed monoliths in the next decade...