IBM Cloud Code Engine: Serverless programming should be a default
With great power, comes great responsibility - clearly - but also, comes complexity and the need to shoulder a steep learning curve. The latter extension of the saying may be needed for cloud computing container orchestration technology Kubernetes.
The inherent complexity and power has been like... Read more
Slack’s new platform is for ‘automating and integrating everything’
The company promises the new release will help developers to "create the building blocks of automation".
This week Slack announced that its new platform was finally out of beta and generally available to developers. The launch comes with a wide range of new features and capabilities that make it... Read more
Android Studio has released its latest stable version, Flamingo
Among its many features, Flamingo introduces Live Edit for Composable UIs, which lets developers push code changes directly to an attached device or emulator to update an app's composables in real-time. This streamlines the build-deploy-iterate cycle for UI programming by reducing context switching... Read more
The ‘messy’ cloud: siloed automation & tool proliferation
Cloud computing is going to be wonderful, said the hopeful virtualisation salesperson back somewhere around the turn of the millennium.
We’re going to provide enterprise organisations large and small with an on-demand means of tapping into computing power (encompassing everything from co... Read more
Google has a new policy for Google Play Store data deletion
The policy change will require Android developers to provide users with an online option to delete their accounts and in-app data.
Starting in early 2024, Google Play users will have more control over their data, as each store listing will display links in the "Data deletion" area, allowing them... Read more
A new first-line for developers: Hello Automation World
Hello World! It’s not going away, but soon, this rite of passage first-line of code that every developer writes when they first cut code might change. Rather than programming an instruction to display those two time-honoured words on screen, fledgling developers could be instructing a bot, callin... Read more
GitHub Copilot X’s new GPT-4 feature is an assistant for developers
GitHub has introduced GPT-4 functionality in Copilot, its assistant for writing code. With Copilot X, developers can write, check and test code faster.
According to GitHub, Copilot X is an expanded version of its existing AI-based code assistant tool Copilot. Copilot is already supported by Open... Read more
Attackers target .NET developers with malicious NuGet packages
Developers are being attacked by threat actors using "sophisticated typosquatting techniques".
Threat actors are targeting and infecting .NET developers with cryptocurrency stealers, according to a report in BleepingComputer.
JFrog security researchers Natan Nehorai and Brian Moussalli detai... Read more
NTT Upgrade 2023: The true nature of R&D
Japanese cloud and telco company NTT chose San Franciso as the venue to host the North American leg of its user, developer, customer, partner event this month. NTT Upgrade may not be the most recognised enterprise technology vendor event on the circuit, but the parent company behind a whole number ... Read more
Ply layers on no-code contextual customisations
Hey there, do you want to hear about our new no-code/low-code platform?! It’s already becoming an arguably fairly tired proposition that’s wearing pretty thin on many in the IT industry. So what should we look for among the upstart start-ups now vying for a share of voice in this increasingly c... Read more