News Oracle Releases JDK 20 First Under New License By John K. WatersMarch 27, 2023 Oracle's latest release of its reference implementation of the Java SE platform, Oracle JDK 20, was announced last week. Although this is another short-term release (as was JDK 19) that includes only six months of premium support, it comes with thousands of … [Read more...]
How to hire a Citizen Developer
The Citizen Developer How to hire a Citizen Developer By Howard M. CohenMarch 16, 2023 I’m confused. Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen articles in industry publications indicating how many thousands of jobs are available for citizen developers. Not only that, but there are also plenty of postings on various company websites, job … [Read more...]
Microsoft Unveils Copilot-Assisted Future for Devs
Microsoft Unveils Copilot-Assisted Future for Devs Microsoft announced the next step in its evolving generative AI strategy on Thursday with news that its ubiquitous Office suite will soon support natural language (NL) interactions. But while NL-powered versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams are sure to grab mainstream headlines, developers learned that Redmond is also … [Read more...]
The Citizen Developer as Ideal Digital Transformer
The Citizen Developer The Citizen Developer as Ideal Digital Transformer By Howard M. CohenFebruary 21, 2023 The emergence of the citizen developer was inevitable, and makes so much sense on so many levels. One contributing factor is the continuing improvement of technology. Especially with the introduction and rapid growth of … [Read more...]
Gradle Inc. Speeds Scala Compiler Times with Triplequote Acquisition
News Gradle Inc. Speeds Scala Compiler Times with Triplequote Acquisition By John K. WatersFebruary 21, 2023 Grade, Inc., the company behind the commercial version of the open-source Gradle build automation tool, Gradle Enterprise, has announced the acquisition of Swiss-based software development technology provider Triplequote. With … [Read more...]
Payara Now Part of the Eclipse Foundation's MicroProfile Working Group
News Payara Now Part of the Eclipse Foundation's MicroProfile Working Group By John K. WatersFebruary 8, 2023 Payara, the company behind the popular fork of the open-source GlassFish application server, has joined the Eclipse Foundation's MicroProfile Working Group, the company announced last week. The MicroProfile specification … [Read more...]
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Red Hat-Oracle Collaboration Brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux to OCI
News Red Hat-Oracle Collaboration Brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux to OCI By John K. WatersFebruary 1, 2023 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now certified to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle's cloud services platform, as a supported operating system, the two companies announced recently. The move is part of a multi-stage … [Read more...]
My 'Conversation' with ChatGPT about What Devs Need to Know
My 'Conversation' with ChatGPT about What Devs Need to Know I've been on this beat for a long time, and I can't remember a piece of software catching fire with the mainstream media—from cable news to late-night talk shows—quite like ChatGPT. The folks at OpenAI, which developed the conversational chatbot, claimed an increase of 1 million users in one week in December. Microsoft just announced … [Read more...]
In the Beginning
The Citizen Developer In the Beginning By Howard M. CohenJanuary 18, 2023 There’s always a first. Some say the first tool for citizen developers was Apple’s HyperCard in 1987. Others see it as the first practical application of hypertext transport protocol (http). Most agree that Gartner was the first to introduce the term at the … [Read more...]
SingularityCE Now Accessible for Enterprise Linux
News SingularityCE Now Accessible for Enterprise Linux By John K. WatersJanuary 11, 2023 High-performance container runtime technology provider Sylabs announced this week that its SingularityCE offering is now accessible for Enterprise Linux users through the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. Maintained since 2017 … [Read more...]
Google Offers Public Preview of SDK Extensions for Android
News Google Offers Public Preview of SDK Extensions for Android By John K. WatersJanuary 10, 2023 Google announced this week the release of the first public preview its SDK Extensions, which leverage modular system components to add APIs to the public SDK for certain previously released API levels. Modularized system … [Read more...]
The Key Role of Citizen Developers in Creating Digital Transformation
The Citizen Developer The Key Role of Citizen Developers in Creating Digital Transformation By Howard M. CohenDecember 14, 2022 You may already be hesitating to read this article because it includes that most overused buzzphrase, Digital Transformation (DX). Would you feel better if we called it "Improving Business Functions Using … [Read more...]
Apache Cassandra 4.1 Goes GA, 'Paves the Way for Cloud-Native Future'
News Apache Cassandra 4.1 Goes GA, 'Paves the Way for Cloud-Native Future' By John K. WatersDecember 13, 2022 The 4.1 release of the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database is now generally available. The project’s major release for 2022 comes with lots of new features and "paves the way," the community said in a blog post, for "a more … [Read more...]
Welcome to the Fediverse!
Welcome to the Fediverse! An estimated 140,000 Twitter users have declared their intention to abandon the social media platform and move to the self-hosted social networking service Mastodon. According to some industry watchers, Mastodon has been growing by more than a million users per month since Twitter was acquired by Tesla founder Elon Musk. Last month, Mastodon reported (ironically, with … [Read more...]
App Monitoring Toolmaker Sentry Acquires Code Coverage Provider Codecov
News App Monitoring Toolmaker Sentry Acquires Code Coverage Provider Codecov By John K. WatersDecember 1, 2022 Software development teams are under a lot of pressure these days to ship code faster— secure, reliable code. Admittedly, "fast but good" is an age-old challenge for devs of nearly every stripe, but given the precipitous rise in … [Read more...]
New CLI Tool Allows Java Devs to Add 'Fuzzing' to JUnit
News New CLI Tool Allows Java Devs to Add 'Fuzzing' to JUnit By John K. WatersNovember 30, 2022 Code Intelligence, a provider of automated testing tools, says its new open-source command-line interface (CLI)tool, CI Fuzz CLI, now allows Java developers to incorporate fuzz testing into their existing JUnit setups. Java developers … [Read more...]
AWS Introduces Lambda SnapStart for Java
News AWS Introduces Lambda SnapStart for Java By John K. WatersNovember 29, 2022 AWS this week unveiled a new performance optimization feature called Lambda SnapStart, which is designed to improve startup times for latency-sensitive applications. Announced at AWS re:Invent 2022, underway this week in Las Vegas, the first version of … [Read more...]
BlackBerry's QNX Tech Now Available to Embedded Devs in the Cloud
News BlackBerry's QNX Tech Now Available to Embedded Devs in the Cloud By John K. WatersNovember 28, 2022 BlackBerry announced today that it is extending its use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make its QNX technology available to mission-critical embedded systems developers in the cloud. The company made the announcement at the AWS … [Read more...]
Class-Action Lawsuit Claims GitHub Copilot is Violating Open-Source Licenses
Class-Action Lawsuit Claims GitHub Copilot is Violating Open-Source Licenses GitHub rolled out a slew of product announcements at its annual GitHub Universe developer conference earlier this month. As we reported, expanded access for business users of its Copilot AI pair programming service generated the loudest buzz. (The company calls the new offering "Copilot for Business.") Meanwhile, a … [Read more...]