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Submission + - Crowdsourcing Platforms Are Raising Developer Armies For-Hire

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: More and more enterprises are turning to crowdsourced development, which gives organizations access to a high-dollar value, high-skill developer talent pool http://sdt.bz/71390. A recent Gartner report, “Use Crowdsourcing as a Force Multiplier in Application Development” http://blogs.gartner.com/eric-..., explores how crowdsourced development applies a cloud operating model to the development and delivery of custom software. platforms such as developer community TopCoder and testing community Applause open enterprise projects up as competitive challenges, breaking down the software’s components into itemized tasks for developers to complete.

Submission + - The Oracle v. Google Appeals Court Ruling Could Break 1

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: The long-running lawsuit and countersuit between Google and Oracle resulted in a ruling last month that, in no uncertain terms, could break much of the software in use today.http://sdt.bz/71372.The decision insinuates that a developer who implements a standard or specification can now be open to lawsuit by the specification's creator. The federal circuit court did leave room for fair use to be found in Google's replication of the Java APIs. This fair use will be decided by Judge William Alsup, but may not matter in the end if the Supreme Court gets involved. If it sounds like this type of ruling would break the entire foundation of software development, that's because it does.

Submission + - Japanese Researchers Create Joke-Telling Robot Comedian

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: A robot in Japan with its own standup routine https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... KOBIAN, an emotionally expressive biped robot platform http://sdt.bz/71371 was developed by researchers at Japan's Waseda University. The robot looks like a cross between a ventriloquist dummy and The Joker and while some of its jokes are lost in translation, the platform is...an iffy comedian. The researchers trained KOBIAN using a comedic rulebook they developed and presented at the 2014 IEEE ICRA Conference http://spectrum.ieee.org/autom....

Submission + - Inside Docker 1.0 And The Linux Container's Newfound Enterprise Following

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: While Linux containers have existed for more than 10 years now, their usefulness and safety hadn't really made inroads with enterprise developers. This week at DockerCon http://sdt.bz/71357 however, marked a clear turning point in the evolution of Linux containers, with the release of Docker 1.0 http://blog.docker.com/2014/06... and Docker Hub http://blog.docker.com/2014/06.... DockerCon also featured speakers and attendees from IBM Google, Rackspace, Red Hat and other big enterprise names experimenting with and integrating Docker in the expanding Docker ecosystem http://sdt.bz/68736.

Submission + - Serena Revamps Dimensions CM To Compete With Git and Subversion

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: The updated release of Dimensions CM 14 http://sdt.bz/71352 wants to be the modern alternative to Git and Subversion. lOne of the major additions to the configuration management tool is change and branch visualization. The visualization gives developers real-time visibility into the health and quality of their code. According to Serena Software's Ashley Owen, developers don’t get a visual display of all development activities in Git or Subversion unless they build it, and Dimensions CM 14 http://www.serena.com/index.ph... also comes with native integration support for Appcelerator’s mobile development platform, Apple’s Xcode, extended Safari support to include Mac OS X clients, CI integration and built-in Araxis file merge.

Submission + - Use Oracle's UPL, Abandon Your Intellectual Property

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: Recently, Oracle submitted the new Universal Permissive License (UPL) for approval to the Open Source Initiative (OSI), claiming the UPL filled the need for a permissive, MIT-style open-source license with explicit patent grants. At a high level, the UPL copyright and patent licenses are overly broad http://sdt.bz/71327. They extend to current and future versions of both the UPL-licensed code as well as any software or hardware identified in a file included with the UPL-licensed code, there is no requirement that the UPL-licensed code be associated in any way with the software or hardware included in the file in order to use the expensive license, and there is no defensive termination clause under the UPL.

Submission + - Gitchain: Where Git Meets Bitcoin

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: A New crowdfunding project is combining the collaborative coding of GitHub with the distributed cloud storage of Bitcoin to create Gitchain, an application that acts as a local proxy for a network of decentralized, peer-to-peer Git repositories http://sdt.bz/71271. Canadian developer Yurii Rashkovskii came up with the idea of applying the decentralized storage of the Bitcoin blockchain to Git hosting, and he started a Kickstarter project https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... to fund it, which has just about hit its $10,000 goal. By storing Git metadata across the DHT (distributed hash table) popularized by Bitcoin and BitTorrent, he aims to store data on every node of the Gitchain network to ensure Git code redundancy.

Submission + - Microsoft Open-Sources ASP.NET on GitHub

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: Hell hath frozen over. Microsoft has released the source code for its ASP.NET server-side Web application framework, hosted freely on GitHub https://github.com/aspnet. This release marks the first major Microsoft platform to see the light of day, but Microsoft's open-source stance has been softening for years http://sdt.bz/71227, most recently with the open-sourcing of the Roslyn C# compiler at Build 2014, and Monday's announcement on ASP.NET vNEXT as an open-source project under the banner of the .NET Foundation, Microsoft's newly announced organization driving its open-source ecosystem http://sdt.bz/70050. ASP.NEt is open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

Submission + - Apple Is Working On A JavaScript Accelerator Codenamed FTLJIT

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: An upgrade to Safari's JavaScriptCore engine is integrating the LLVM compiler to speed up Javascript performance http://sdt.bz/71221. The revamped JavaScript engine, codenamed FTLJIT (Fourth Tier LLVM Just-In-Time,) invokes the LLVM infrastructure to compile JavaScript code rather than generating code directly from the DFG IR. FTLJIT is not yet enabled, but Apple has made it available by default as an OS X port for WebKit https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/F....

Submission + - Microsoft Announces Visual Studio Support For Apache Cordova, More At TechEd

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: Microsoft announced support for the Apache Cordova cross-device development platform in Visual Studio, open APIs for Visual Studio Online, a preview of the next .NET framework, changes to ASP.NEt and a preview of Azure Files at its TechEd 2014 conference http://sdt.bz/71201. The announcements were part of Microsoft's "Mobile First, Cloud First" message. The Cordova integration ill allow developments to create JavaScript or TypeScript apps.

Submission + - SEC Issues Bitcoin Advisory Warning

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: Virtual currency was one of the North American Securities Administrators Association's Top 10 threats to investors in 2013, and now the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is finally voicing its concerns http://sdt.bz/71189. The SEC isn’t saying to avoid cryptocurrencies altogether, but it's advising investors to tread carefully. If the concerns still don’t outweigh an investor’s desire to invest, the SEC says to watch out for potential warning signs of fraud such as “guaranteed” high investment returns, unsolicited offers, unlicensed sellers, no net worth or income requirements, “sounds too good to be true,” or pressure to buy right now.“Before making any investment, carefully read any materials you are given and verify the truth of every statement you are told about the investment,” the report http://investor.gov/news-alert... states.

Submission + - Oracle Engineers Write Official Proposal For Value Types In JVM And Java

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: Oracle engineers have submitted a formal thesis of proposed enhancements to the Java Virtual Machine and Java language to support small, immutable value types http://sdt.bz/70165. Oracle Java language architect Brian Goetz, consulting engineer John Rose and Oracle Labs software architect Guy Steele publicized the first draft of their “State of the Values” proposal http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jr... describing their overall approach to adding value types or user-defined primitives to the JVM instruction set. The engineers view value types as a way to build new value-based data structures integrated into the JVM that could enable Java support for features such as numerics, algebraic and native data types, tuples, cursors and flattening.

Submission + - Canonical Halts Ubuntu For Android Development 1

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: In a since-removed bug report on Launchpad, Ubuntu’s issue tracker, Canonical’s Matthew Paul Thomas stated that Ubuntu for Android is no longer in active development. In a statement http://sdt.bz/70157, Canonical stated that while the project is not completely dead, Canonical is currently focusing on pushing Ubuntu for Phones. The company is open to working with partners on Ubuntu for Android, but will not proceed with further U4A development unless they can form a partnership with an OEM partner to launch it.The Ubuntu for Android project http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ub... was first announced http://news.slashdot.org/story... in early 2012.

Submission + - Docker Forms Governance Advisory Board With Google, IBM, Rackspace & Red Hat

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: Docker announced today the formation of the Docker Governance Advisory Board http://sdt.bz/70147 . The board will function as a tool for feedback from the communities that use Docker, but will not have any actual control over the project itself .The idea is to model the Docker governance process after that of the Linux kernel, according to Docker SVP of product Scott Johnston. Three seats of the 15-member advisory board will go to the top Docker project contributors including project creator Solomon Hykes. As for the other seats, Johnson told SD Times that Google, IBM, Rackspace and Red Hat have all heavily invested their internal use of Docker. The Docker Governance Advisory Board members will be formally announced at the first Docker Conference, which takes place in San Francisco, June 9-10.

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