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Wednesday October 1, 2025. 11:00 AM
Modern Python developers use virtual environments (venvs), to keep their projects and dependencies separate. Managing project dependencies gets more complex as the number of dependencies grows. Luckily, a variety of third-party tools provide sophisticated package management...
Tuesday September 30, 2025. 07:54 PM
Work on the Safe C++ extensions proposal, forged a year ago to address memory safety in the language, has ceased, according to Harry Bott, the CEO of the C++ Alliance, which oversaw the proposal. The plan lost out to safety profiles from C++ founder Bjarne Stroustrup....
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) was rolled out by Anthropic in November of 2024 and has rapidly become a hot topic among developers and enterprises alike. MCP is now a leading standard for connecting large language models (LLMs) with tools and data—and demand for...
In the corporate world, blaming the intern is a time-honored, if absurd, tradition. It is a public relations reflex that often emerges after a catastrophic failure, when leaders who are paid millions to exercise oversight deflect responsibility downward to the least powerful ...
Cloud computing forms the backbone of our increasingly digital world, enabling businesses to operate more efficiently, grow faster, and innovate with flexibility. Despite its advantages, the cloud is not immune to data breaches caused by weak security practices. Alarmingly,...
Monday September 29, 2025. 11:01 PM
JavaFX 25, an update of the rich client application platform for Java, has arrived with new capabilities including a preview of JavaFX controls in the title bar, the ability to style RichTextArea highlights using CSS, the addition of media queries to JavaFX CSS, and the...
You’ve seen them: Those incredible large language models (LLMs) that can chat, write and even generate code. They’ve revolutionized how we interact with technology, but there’s a new, even more exciting chapter unfolding: the rise of AI agents that don’t just talk...
Follow the usual AI suspects on X—Andrew Ng, Paige Bailey, Demis Hassabis, Thom Wolf, Santiago Valdarrama, etc.—and you start to discern patterns in emerging AI challenges and how developers are solving them. Right now, these prominent practitioners expose at least two...
Alan Turing famously thought that the question of whether machines can think is “too meaningless” to deserve discussion. To better define “thinking machines” or artificial intelligence, Turing proposed “The Imitation Game,” now usually called “The Turing...
Saturday September 27, 2025. 01:19 AM
AI-powered search capabilities are continuing to work their way into toolkits as developers seek to speed up, optimize, and enhance their work. Fast-growing startup Perplexity has been a key player behind that push, and is now further bolstering its capabilities with a new...
Friday September 26, 2025. 11:00 AM
Infrastructure as code defined Infrastructure as code (often abbreviated IaC) is a practice of writing plain-text declarative configuration files that automated tools use to manage and provision servers and other computing resources. In the pre-cloud days, sysadmins would...
Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld How to manage Python projects with PoetryElegantly manage Python virtual environments and project requirements. Poetry gives Python all-in-one management controls akin to what you might enjoy with Go and Rust. Databot: AI-assisted...
Cloud computing has long been heralded as the backbone of digital transformation, but not all parts of the cloud market are treated equally. As of 2025, software as a service (SaaS) continues to dominate the cloud computing landscape, with the global SaaS market expected to...
Thursday September 25, 2025. 11:48 PM
Microsoft has launched Microsoft Marketplace, a unified storefront website for AI apps, agents, and enterprise solutions to boost AI adoption. Unveiled September 25, the marketplace is intended for scenarios where the adoption of AI agents requires a mix of in-house and...
GitHub Copilot app modernization now is generally available via agentic AI tools for Java and.NET, Github said. For both platforms, the intentions are to help modernize applications and move them to the Azure cloud. In a blog post on September 23, GitHub said that developers ...
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has officially released Postgres 18, continuing the project’s nearly decade-long pattern of major updates in the September-October time frame. This consistency is one of many reasons Postgres remains the most loved, admired, and used ...
Microsoft and GitHub have made AI assistance a key part of their software development tools. Embedded in the latest Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code releases, GitHub Copilot puts a multifaceted pair programmer—combining AI-powered code completion, coding agents, and...
Records in Java are a newer kind of class for holding data. Instead of writing boilerplate code for constructors, accessors, equals(), hashCode(), and toString(), you just declare the fields and let the Java compiler handle the rest. This article introduces you to Java...
Looking to make public data access easier for the AI developer ecosystem, Google has released the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, an MCP server that provides a standardized way for AI agents to consume Data Commons data sets natively. With the Data Commons...
Wednesday September 24, 2025. 12:52 PM
Eight organizations that operate the world’s largest software package registries issued a coordinated warning that their current funding model was “dangerously fragile,” signaling potential changes to how enterprises access the infrastructure powering billions of...
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