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Wednesday August 28, 2024. 01:32 AM
Microsoft has donated its Mono Project, which has provided a.NET implementation on Android, iOS, Linux, and other operating systems, to the WineHQ organization, according to bulletin publicized August 27. WineHQ provides a compatibility layer for running Windows applications ...
Tuesday August 27, 2024. 11:00 AM
Quantum-resistant cryptography has become an increasingly urgent topic as the threat posed by quantum computing continues to grow. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released the first set of finalized algorithms designed to withstand...
Virtually everyone today has some kind of “feed.” Whether it is a news and information feed from Google Discover or Apple News, or just the social media feed on X, TikTok, or Facebook, we all seem to have a barrage of news, articles, videos, and who-knows-what-else...
As organizations of all sizes and sectors race to develop, deploy or buy AI and LLM-based products and services, what are the things they should be thinking about from a regulatory perspective? And if you’re a software developer, what do you need to know? The regulatory...
JetBrains has released an update to the Kotlin programming language. Kotlin 2.0.20 features concurrent marking for the garbage collector and other performance improvements, along with bug fixes for Kotlin 2.0.0. Unveiled August 22, Kotlin 2.0.20 follows the May 23 release...
Monday August 26, 2024. 10:51 PM
Deno Land has released Deno 1.46, which the company says is the final 1.x release of the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime. The upgrade simplifies the command-line interface, improves dependency management and Node.js/npm compatibility, and enables multi-threaded web servers...
Every so often, we’re duped into thinking that enterprise technology changes quickly; that if you don’t jump on this or that hype train right now you’re going to get left behind. A decade ago it was cloud computing. Today it’s generative AI. Each promised to change...
For a simplistic view of data processing architectures, we can look at the structure and functions of a house. The foundation of the house is data management platforms that provide storage, query, transactions, security, and other fundamental data functions. Throughout the...
Companies generate vast amounts of data daily from various business operations. For example, whenever a customer is checked out at a retail outlet, data such as the customer identifier, retail outlet identifier, time of check out, list of purchased items, and the total sales ...
Friday August 23, 2024. 08:59 PM
Method overloading is a programming technique that allows developers to use the same method name multiple times in the same class, but with different parameters. Because of the word overloading, developers sometimes assume this technique means overloading the system, but...
The cloud computing boom brought innovation and showed us the need for strategic planning to avoid costly mistakes such as “shadow IT” (IT activities or purchases made without the knowledge of the IT department), which led to unexpected expenses and security issues. With ...
With Java Development Kit (JDK) 23 due to arrive September 17, work already has begun on JDK 24, with the first feature, restricting the use of JNI (Java Native Interface), targeted for the release. A multitude of other features, including many already in preview in JDK 23,...
Thursday August 22, 2024. 10:03 PM
When Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman told his developers in June that they may no longer be in the coding business in as little as two years, it was a heads up to change-resistant coders that they had better embrace the new AI-centric reality. But it also forced serious ...
In the bustling metropolis of Digital Innovation City, a fictional mid-sized tech company named InnovateCorp grapples with an ever-expanding, cloud-based infrastructure. Like many others, this organization made the leap to the cloud with the promise of scalability, agility,...
Containers are a key component of the modern application platform, providing isolation between applications and, at the same time, turning userland into a portable runtime environment. Containers give us a place to both package and run all the necessary dependencies for our...
Microsoft has rolled out improvements for C++ development in the latest version of the Visual Studio IDE, including enhancements for the standard library and significantly faster breakpoint performance. The release, Visual Studio 2022 v17.11, was unveiled August 13. The...
Exception handling has been used in programming languages for decades to handle run-time errors in applications. However, throwing exceptions is costly in terms of performance, so we should avoid them in our code. This article discusses a few strategies we can use to avoid...
Wednesday August 21, 2024. 10:44 PM
More than 97% of respondents to GitHub’s AI in software development 2024 survey said they had used AI coding tools at work, but only 38% of US-based developers said their organizations actively encouraged adoption. The survey report was released on August 20. Of the four...
Microsoft has released a new, updated set of its Phi small language models on Hugging Face, which it claims outperforms similar offerings from rival model providers, including Meta and Google. In an update to the Phi 3 platform released in April, the cloud services provider...
It can sometimes be overwhelming keeping up with everything happening in the world of JavaScript, but I think JavaScript developers mostly know we are lucky. We get to work in a space where smart people are constantly generating new ideas. We are surrounded by peers who are...
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