CSHTML5: A cross-platform HTML5 extension for Visual Studio
As standardized HTML5 ascends to Web development dominance, developers all across the spectrum are looking for ways to leverage the markup language. Now, a free extension for Visual Studio gives C# and...
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GitHub Special Feature: Breaking down the 2014 Transparency Report
Normally at this time on a Friday you’d be reading about whichever interesting open-source project we decided to highlight for our GitHub Project of the Week. But this week it seemed more pertinent to...
View ArticleAnalyst Watch: Ten reasons why open-source software will eat the world
I recently attended Facebook’s F8 developer conference in San Francisco, where I had a revelation on why it is going to be impossible to succeed as a technology vendor in the long run without deeply...
View ArticleGuest View: Traditional Ops is no more
Almost 10 years ago, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels famously revealed how the company had moved away from traditional department-led Web operations to developers deploying their own code. “The traditional...
View ArticleThe future of JavaScript is (almost) now
JavaScript is everywhere. Once relegated to an Internet fad, the malleable programming language has evolved along with the Web and now finds itself entrenched in modern browsers, complex Web...
View ArticleFrom the Editors: It’s time for enterprise developers to embrace JavaScript
Client-side JavaScript brings developers closer to the glass. In a flexibly scripted programming language like JavaScript, everything is an object. Developers can code and push new features faster,...
View ArticleECMAScript 6 is officially a standard
The future of JavaScript has arrived. The Ecma General Assembly has officially approved ECMAScript 6, the latest standard edition of JavaScript. The specification is the first major revision to the...
View ArticleVersioning: A social network for Web developers
A new social network targeted specifically at Web developers and designers aims to use voting-based popularity rankings to promote and share developer-specific content. Versioning, created by...
View ArticleDeveloper releases beta of ‘API-first’ PHP framework for coding interoperable...
French developer Kévin Dunglas has released the 1.0.0 beta version of API Platform, an open-source “API-first” PHP framework for creating interoperable single-page applications, native mobile apps, and...
View ArticlePHP 7.0.0 feature-complete beta released
A beta version of PHP 7.0.0 has been released with a complete feature set, including 64-bit support, a new version of the Zend Engine and performance improvements, according to the PHP development...
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SD Times GitHub Project of the Week: JAWS
Da-dum…da-dum…da-dum da-dum da-dum da-dum… It’s JAWS, the combined JavaScript + Amazon Web Services stack surfacing in a great white way on GitHub this week. JAWS is a “monstrously scalable,”...
View ArticlejQuery Foundation updates its mission
The jQuery Foundation, the nonprofit trade association that oversees the open-source jQuery project and its ecosystem, has announced an updated mission statement and new mandates going forward. During...
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Taking a closer look at HTML5 after its first year of standardization
Today marks the one-year anniversary of HTML5’s standardization, and since then it has quickly become a preferred solution for Web development. It was a long and hard road for HTML5 to reach that...
View ArticleSD Times GitHub Project of the Week: Ninja
Want your development efforts to be swift, strategic and super productive? That is exactly what Ninja, a full stack Web framework for Java, aims to help developers do. “Doesn’t matter if you build huge...
View ArticleC#/XAML for HTML5 beta 8 released
The free Visual Studio extension that allows developers to build HTML5 applications using C# or XAML has hit beta version 8 on its way to general availability. C#/XAML for HTML5 (CSHTML5) was developed...
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New open-source framework Fission available, build web apps with Tandem Code,...
Fission, a new open-source Serverless Function (FaaS) framework for Kubernetes, lets developers easily create HTTP services on Kubernetes from functions with Node.js and Python support. To use Fission,...
View ArticlePackt: What skills and technologies developers should learn in 2017
In Packt’s “Skill Up: Developer Talk” report, software engineers, web developers and other industry leaders shared their thoughts on the ever-evolving tech landscape and how developers can stay...
View ArticleReport: Go programming language is attracting more attention
Developers are beginning to program in Go both at work and outside of work. Go is an open-source programming language Google created in 2007. The programming language’s team has released its 2016...
View ArticleCodePen Projects, Mozilla’s Obsidian API proposal, ActiveGo Beta, HashiCorp...
A new platform wants to give developers a playground for developing front end web solutions. CodePen Projects is a place where developers can build websites right in their browser. According to the...
View ArticleCoding Autism creates program to teach adults with disorder the fundamentals...
Coding Autism is announcing a new crowdfunding campaign to teach those with autism how to code. Coding Autism is a professional coaching and training company that looks to train adults on the spectrum...
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