News Codethink Joins Eclipse Foundation to Drive Global Standards for Trustable Software By John K. WatersJanuary 7, 2025 UK-based Codethink, a global leader in software engineering services, announced its strategic membership in the Eclipse Foundation and its Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Working Group. The move marks a significant step … [Read more...]

News Java Holds Steady as Python Claims Programming Language of the Year By John K. WatersJanuary 7, 2025 Despite Python's meteoric rise to claim Tiobe's Programming Language of the Year for 2024, Java has quietly reinforced its position as a critical player in the global developer ecosystem. With a 2.3% increase in Tiobe's ratings, Java … [Read more...]

News Java Trends Signal a Shift in Developer Learning Amid AI Surge By John K. WatersJanuary 7, 2025 As the tech world charges into 2025, O'Reilly Media's latest report on its learning platform usage offers a deep dive into the shifting sands of software development education. Among the most intriguing revelations is the decline in … [Read more...]

The Citizen Developer Next on the Citizen Developer Skills Parade: Building Better Prompts By Howard M. CohenDecember 18, 2024 Remember when we used to talk about how a citizen developer only needed to know their processes and they could move the tiles around a low-code/no-code (LCNC) screen to build their apps? And then, in June 2024, I … [Read more...]

News GitHub Launches Free Version of AI-Powered Copilot, Expanding Access for 150 million Developers By John K. WatersDecember 18, 2024 GitHub, the Microsoft-owned code collaboration platform, today announced the launch of GitHub Copilot Free, offering a no-cost version of its AI-powered coding assistant to developers worldwide. Integrated … [Read more...]

News Python Poised to Claim 2024 'Language of the Year' as Fortran Climbs in Steady TIOBE Index Rankings By John K. WatersDecember 18, 2024 Python looks set to clinch the Language of the Year award for 2024, maintaining its lead in the December TIOBE Programming Community Index, while Fortran’s steady ascent highlighted a quiet month in … [Read more...]

News Rubrik and Red Hat Team Up to Boost Cyber Resilience for Virtualized Environments By David RamelDecember 5, 2024 Data security firm Rubrik has announced a collaboration with open-source software maker Red Hat to integrate Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization into Rubrik Security Cloud, aiming to streamline data protection for virtualized … [Read more...]

The Citizen Developer Don’t Make Software, Make Agents By Howard M. CohenDecember 4, 2024 We’ve previously discussed here in The Citizen Developer how we’re experiencing a new Layer of Abstraction, which I and others are calling "Citizen AI"—even before that we hinted at the future direction of citizen development platforms when we asked, … [Read more...]

News Eclipse Foundation Survey Highlights Open-Source Surge in IoT and Embedded Systems By John K. WatersDecember 3, 2024 The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open-source software organizations, has released its 2024 IoT & Embedded Developer Survey, shedding light on key trends and challenges shaping the Internet of … [Read more...]

News Payara Launches Alpha Preview to Advance Jakarta EE 11 Adoption By John K. WatersDecember 3, 2024 Payara, a leader in enterprise Java application server technology, has announced the alpha release of Payara Platform Community 7 Alpha 2, offering developers a first look at Jakarta EE 11 (currently under development). With this release, … [Read more...]

News Red Hat Expands Automation, Security, with RHEL 9.5 By John K. WatersNovember 13, 2024 Red Hat, one of the world's leading providers of open-source solutions, today announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.5, the latest version of its flagship Linux platform. This release introduces enhanced automation and … [Read more...]

News Open Mainframe Project Releases Zowe V3 with LTS, Expanding Java Integration for Mainframe Modernization By John K. WatersNovember 2, 2024 p>The   Open Mainframe Project has announced the Long Term Support (LTS) V3 release of Zowe , an open-source framework for mainframes, designed to enhance durability, stability, and … [Read more...]

News Google Launches PipelineDP4j, Aims to Broaden Adoption of Differential Privacy on JVM By John K. WatersNovember 2, 2024 Google has introduced PipelineDP4j, a differential privacy toolkit built for Java Virtual Machine (JVM) environments, with the goal of making privacy-preserving data analysis more accessible for developers. This … [Read more...]

News Enterprises "Just Scratching the Surface" of Java's Potential, Survey Suggests By John K. WatersNovember 1, 2024 The Java language and platform continues to be the backbone of many enterprise applications, and yet businesses are only scratching the surface of its cost-saving potential. That's the conclusion of a survey by BellSoft … [Read more...]

The Citizen Developer Which Low-Code/No-Code (LCNC) Platform? By Howard M. CohenOctober 31, 2024 The first "low-code/no-code" (LCNC) platform was probably Apple HyperCard, introduced in 1987. Although it never enjoyed widespread adoption, it did enable users to create some fundamental applications using a graphical interface. By the … [Read more...]

News Microsoft Expands AI Capabilities with Autonomous Agents at Ignite Conference By Gladys RamaOctober 22, 2024 At its Ignite conference next month, Microsoft will let more of its users spin up autonomous AI "agents" within Copilot Studio, its AI orchestration platform, the company says.The public preview of this agent-building … [Read more...]

News OutSystems Unveils AI Powered Mentor By John K. WatersOctober 18, 2024 OutSystems, provider of a high-performance, low-code development platform, has introduced what it is calling the industry's first AI-powered digital worker for the full software development  life cycle (SDLC). Announced at the 2024 OutSystems ONE Conference, … [Read more...]

News Hugging Face Launches Gradio 5 with AI Powered App Creation and Enhanced Security Features By John K. WatersOctober 17, 2024 Hugging Face announced the launch of Gradio 5, the latest version of its open-source platform for building machine learning (ML) applications. This new release brings a range of features aimed at broadening … [Read more...]

News OpenAI Announces Availability of Realtime API in Public Beta By John K. WatersOctober 9, 2024 OpenAI has introduced the public beta of its Realtime API, offering developers a tool to integrate natural, low-latency, multimodal interactions into their applications. Now available to all paid developers, this API facilitates real-time … [Read more...]

The Pros and Cons of Governor Newsom’s Veto of SB 1047 for Software Developers I've been thinking about California Governor Gavin Newsom’s veto of Senate Bill 1047 (SB 1047), the proposed regulation aimed at safeguarding against the misuse of artificial intelligence. I was surprised by the veto, because of its popularity in the legislature, but I probably shouldn't have been. Newsom has long … [Read more...]