News JetBrains Rolls Out 2024.1 Updates of its Suite of IDEs By John K. WatersApril 11, 2024 In a significant move to enhance coding efficiency and protect developer privacy, JetBrains has rolled out the 2024.1 updates for its suite of integrated development environments (IDEs), introducing an advanced full-line autocompletion feature that … [Read more...]
Google Cloud Unveils Vertex AI Agent Builder for GenAI Agent Development
News Google Cloud Unveils Vertex AI Agent Builder for GenAI Agent Development By John K. WatersApril 11, 2024 Google Cloud this week introduced Vertex AI Agent Builder, a new tool that consolidates Vertex AI Search and Conversation products, enhancing the developer's toolbox for generative AI agent development. Vertex AI Agent Builder … [Read more...]
Cloudflare Expands Dev Tools Suite to Simplify Full-stack Management
News Cloudflare Expands Dev Tools Suite to Simplify Full-stack Management By John K. WatersApril 11, 2024 Cloudflare has announced an expansion of its development tools suite, introducing four new products designed to simplify full-stack management for developers. The initial product available, D1, is a global serverless SQL database … [Read more...]
Java 22 Packs a Punch with 12 JEPs and Support for GenAI
Java 22 Packs a Punch with 12 JEPs and Support for GenAI Last month, Oracle dropped Java 22, adding a fresh batch of performance, stability, and security features to the venerable programming platform. This latest iteration introduces 12 JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs) aimed at refining everything from the Java language to its array of development tools. Though not a long-term support (LTS) … [Read more...]
Preparing to be the Citizen Developer of Tomorrow
The Citizen Developer Preparing to be the Citizen Developer of Tomorrow By Howard M. CohenMarch 28, 2024 The world of the citizen development continues to evolve at an ever increasing pace. Yesterday we were talking about the possibility of creating useful applications with low- or no-code (LCNC) tools, and about how this approach would … [Read more...]
Microsoft Teams to See Copilot Enhancements
News Microsoft Teams to See Copilot Enhancements By Chris PaoliMarch 27, 2024 Microsoft is enhancing user interaction with Copilot in Microsoft Teams, introducing several new features optimized based on user feedback. The enhancements are scheduled for release in the coming months. The first update will enhance Copilot during meetings … [Read more...]
Will AI Replace the Citizen Developer? Or Will TuringBots Be Yet Another Imitation Game?
The Citizen Developer Will AI Replace the Citizen Developer? Or Will TuringBots Be Yet Another Imitation Game? By Howard M. CohenMarch 14, 2024 Just when you thought it was safe to go out and create the applications you need yourself another page turns, another development emerges, and you get more fun confusion to contend … [Read more...]
Red Hat Launches Developer Hub for Enhanced App Development
News Red Hat Launches Developer Hub for Enhanced App Development By John K. WatersFebruary 12, 2024 Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Developer Hub, an enterprise-grade internal developer platform (IDP) based on Backstage, an open source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project. The platform includes a … [Read more...]
There is Power in Thinking Small
News There is Power in Thinking Small By Howard M. CohenJanuary 22, 2024 We’re already starting to see the lines between users and citizen developers start to blur.The best examples of how this is happening occur in the Microsoft environment. Clearly, Microsoft wants to establish itself as the leader in citizen development as much as it … [Read more...]
Outlook 2024: The Citizen Developers are Coming! The Citizen Developers are Coming!
The Citizen Developer Outlook 2024: The Citizen Developers are Coming! The Citizen Developers are Coming! By Howard M. CohenDecember 19, 2023 Way back in February of 2019 at the Mobile World Conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that, given the state of the world, every company is now a software company. "It is getting … [Read more...]
OpenAI's Altman is Out… Or Maybe He's Back
OpenAI's Altman is Out... Or Maybe He's Back The stunning news last Friday that OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman, who has become the veritable face of generative AI, had been fired by the organization's board of directors, and the subsequent announcement that the company's president and co-founder Greg Brockman had quit because of the ouster, rocked the genAI world. Not only did the board … [Read more...]
Building Apps Through Conversation
The Citizen Developer Building Apps Through Conversation Just when you were getting used to the idea of dragging icons around a screen to build apps, along comes Microsoft PowerApps Copilot saying, "Talk to me. Tell me what you need the app to do…" By Howard M. CohenOctober 27, 2023 Just when you were getting used to the idea of dragging … [Read more...]
OpenJS Foundation Announces Availability of Node.js 21
News OpenJS Foundation Announces Availability of Node.js 21 The OpenJS Foundation releases Node.js 21 as "Current;" Node.js 20 gets LTS status. By John K. WatersOctober 17, 2023 The OpenJS Foundation today announced the release of Node.js 21, the latest release line of the open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment and … [Read more...]
New Zenhub Enterprise Release for On-Prem Teams
News New Zenhub Enterprise Release for On-Prem Teams Zenhub Enterprise 4.0 release packs in features for dev teams not developing for the cloud. By John K. WatersOctober 17, 2023 Zenhub, provider of a leading productivity management and collaboration platform for agile software teams using GitHub, today announced a significant upgrade of … [Read more...]
A Prompt by Any Other Name: IBM's Watsonx Gets a Generative AI Enhancement
A Prompt by Any Other Name: IBM's Watsonx Gets a Generative AI Enhancement When I first began using the term "prompt engineering" last year, I thought the eye rolling would knock the planet off its axis. I got a similar reaction a dozen years earlier when I proposed writing a book on "social media" to an east coast publisher. And don't get me started on the initial feedback on "the … [Read more...]
Salesforce Unveils Einstein-based AI Dev Assistant
News Salesforce Unveils Einstein-based AI Dev Assistant Salesforce provides developers with a new AI assistant: Einstein Copilot By John K. WatersOctober 2, 2023 Salesforce expands the reach of its Einstein AI tech with a new developer assistant embedded within its ecosystem. Calling it Einstein Copilot all but standardizes nomenclature … [Read more...]
AWS Requires KDP Authors to Disclose AI Generated Content
News AWS Requires KDP Authors to Disclose AI Generated Content AWS says self-publishers on its Kindle platform who use AI-generated content could get bounced. By David RamelOctober 2, 2023 Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now requiring self-publishers on its Kindle platform to disclose whether their uploads are AI-generated. This new … [Read more...]
Oracle JDK 21 LTS Release: More Features from Loom, Panama, and Generational ZGC
Oracle JDK 21 LTS Release: More Features from Loom, Panama, and Generational ZGC Java 21 has arrived, and with it the latest implementation of Oracle's Java Development Kit (JDK). Oracle JDK 21 is a long-term support release (LTS) focused on serious performance improvements, stability enhancements, and security upgrades. As an LTS release, JDK 21 will receive eight years of support from … [Read more...]
JetBrains Launches New IDE Designed for Rust Programmers
News JetBrains Launches New IDE Designed for Rust Programmers JetBrains launches specialized IDE for Rust developers. By John K. WatersSeptember 27, 2023 Software development toolmaker JetBrains has created a new IDE designed specifically for the Rust system programming language. Dubbed RustRover, the new IDE combines … [Read more...]
Oracle Unveils GraalOS for Faster Cloud-Native Java Apps
News Oracle Unveils GraalOS for Faster Cloud-Native Java Apps Oracle's new GraalOS Speeds Up Cloud Native Java Apps By John K. WatersSeptember 27, 2023 Oracle has announced the availability of a new Java-based application deployment technology that uses the Oracle GraalVM Native Image to run applications as native machine … [Read more...]