72457119
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rjmarvin writes:
As homes get “smarter” and fill up with more connected devices, one startup is betting on gesture control http://sdtimes.com/reemo-grant... as a natural way to manage a true Internet of Things. Reemo is a Minneapolis-based startup developing a wrist-worn watch and software platform for developers to integrate gesture controls into connected devices and applications. This month the company http://www.getreemo.com/ announced the alpha release of the Reemo Watch, currently in its fifth prototyping iteration, along with the Reemo API and SDK, which include interface libraries in JavaScript, Objective-C and Java.
72172711
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rjmarvin writes:
Apache Mesosphere users can now integrate http://sdtimes.com/googles-kub... Google's Project Kubernetes into their containerized cloud environments. Mesosphere today announced https://mesosphere.com/blog/20... that it would begin including Kubernetes as a standard feature of its Mesosphere Data Center Operating System. Google Cloud Compute project manager Craig McLuckie told SD Times the long-term goal is to bring Google’s internal cloud architecture and capabilities to the public as standard issue for all data centers, starting with making the system production-ready.
72123575
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rjmarvin writes:
Flush in market share, emerging platforms and devices, Android developers face a fragmented version, IDE and app tooling landscape http://sdtimes.com/androids-gr.... Android grew to 81.5% of the global smartphone market share in 2014, Spread within that massive growth is an operating system split into different forks on different smartphone and tablet device lines, made by different manufacturers all running different versions of Android itself, from Froyo to Lollipop. Despite more features, development options, platforms and emerging devices to target than ever before, actually developing for Android can be a pain in the app.
71247871
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rjmarvin writes:
Joyent, the cloud infrastructure provider that serves as the steward of Node.js, today announced Triton, a new “elastic” container infrastructure stack http://sdtimes.com/joyent-laun... that extends Docker deployments directly on bare metal. Consisting of a cloud-based service along with Triton Enterprise for on-premises deployment, Triton virtualizes the data center as a single, elastic Docker host, removing orchestration layers for more streamlined scaling and deployment of Docker applications. The open-source platform https://github.com/joyent is designed address community concerns about some of the shortcomings in the popular emerging container technology, implementing its existing SmartOS container runtime for multi-tenant Docker security with native Linux binaries.
71226287
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rjmarvin writes:
SourceForge has removed Binkiland, software believed to be malware by users of the open-source code repository, from its well of installer options for developers http://sdtimes.com/sourceforge.... A Binkiland support team member reached out to SD Times after its initial coverage http://sdtimes.com/sd-times-bl... of the Binkiland malware present in third-party SourceForge installers. After SourceForge director Robert Galoppini explained how Binkiland was removed and reinstalled, the Binkiland representative provided instructions http://www.binkiland.com/how-t... for how to remove the software.
70919239
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rjmarvin writes:
Now that its codebase is finally viewed as stable, OpenSSL is getting a good top-to-bottom once-over in the form of a sweeping audit http://sdtimes.com/openssl-und.... As part of the Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative, the foundation and the Open Crypto Audit Project are sponsoring and organizing what may arguably be the highest-profile audit of a piece of open-source software in history. The audit itself will be conducted by the information assurance organization NCC Group, and its security research arm, Cryptography Services, will carry out the code review https://cryptoservices.github.... of OpenSSL's 447,247 line codebase over the next several months.
70858605
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rjmarvin writes:
There’s a crazy rumor going around Silicon Valley right now that Oracle is about to buy Salesforce.com http://sdtimes.com/sd-times-bl.... Insiders have sold off a bit of stock, concentrated around Feb. 24, when a segment on CNBC questioned a large volume of trades of Salesforce stock. Marc Benioff even put in later in the month, selling more than a million dollars of stock. He did the same thing again on March 7, and some other executives started pushing their options onto the markets as well. Conventional wisdom says the rumor is simple cash maneuvering and works against Marc Benioff's competitive advantage against Oracle, or smoke signaling a much longer-term deal.
70535767
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rjmarvin writes:
ECMAScript 6, the landmark official update to JavaScript, has entered the next phase http://sdtimes.com/milestone-e... of the standardization process along the road to a June 2015 wide release. ECMAScript project editor Allen Wirfs-Brock has submitted ECMAScript 6 Release Candidate http://people.mozilla.org/~jor... 1 for review, with the specification coming in at 653 pages. Wirfs-Brock confirmed to SD Times the June ES6 release timetable and said “ECMAScript 6 is such a significant advance over previous versions of JavaScript that it’s really what all JavaScript programmers will come to expect over the next couple of years."
70191905
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rjmarvin writes:
Node.js is moving to an open governance model under the auspices of the newly announced Node.js Foundation http://sdtimes.com/node-js-ann.... Cloud infrastructure company Joyent, the corporate steward behind the open-source runtime technology, announced the establishment of an independent Node.js Foundation with Fidelity, IBM, Microsoft and PayPal as founding members. “In the overall model for where the project should reside, we set about creating this foundation allowing us to drive a healthy ecosystem and a vibrant community without snuffing out innovation, and without parts of the community feeling excluded or disenfranchised,” said Joyent CEO Scott Hammond in an interview with SD Times, where he also talked about keeping up with the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine, how the community feels about the io.js fork, and the release of Node.js 0.12 http://blog.nodejs.org/2015/02... along the roadmap to version 1.0.
70019285
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rjmarvin writes:
The World Wide Web Consortium is taking over how the Web is integrated into connected car applications and OSes, committing http://sdtimes.com/w3c-standar... to “ develop APIs to expose vehicle data and information from an automotive network to a Web application.” As companies like Apple and Google begin expanding the reach of their mobile operating systems into automotive software, the W3C has announced a new Automotive Working Group http://www.w3.org/2015/02/auto.... The international Web standards organization will partner with major car manufacturers, but chip makers, browser makers and mobile carriers to shape the way connected car applications and automotive infotainment systems integrate user data, from sending drivers weather and traffic notifications to giving apps access to vehicle speed, tire pressure and even driver seat position data.
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rjmarvin writes:
The application container wars are heating up http://sdtimes.com/container-w..., as two of the largest companies in the space reveal dueling announcements. Docker announced three leadership roles for the Docker open-source project http://blog.docker.com/2015/01..., while rival CoreOS rolled out version 0.2 of its Rocket container runtime https://coreos.com/blog/rocket... and version 2.0 of the etcd key-value store. 2015 is the year Linux containers go mainstream.
68324925
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rjmarvin writes:
Ephemeral messaging software and apps like Snapchat are consumer-specific platforms with the potential to transform into enterprise products http://sdtimes.com/snapchat-en.... In the same way Facebook helped the enterprise connect their employees, ephemeral software also points to trends that can boost software in the enterprise space. Features including off-the-record conversations, secure handling of short-term information, scope-setting and BYOD implications could drive business adoption of Snapchat-esque apps.
67719307
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rjmarvin writes:
After releasing five popular open-source technologies including Vagrant, HashiCorp is tying them all together with Atlas https://atlas.hashicorp.com/—a commercial DevOps and application-delivery product for developing, deploying, and maintaining applications on any infrastructure “Atlas is really the universal answer to application delivery and DevOps in general,” HashiCorp CEO Mitchell Hashimoto told SD Times http://sdtimes.com/hashicorp-r.... The release of Atlas is a milestone for HashiCorp. Along with Atlas, the company today announced US$10 million in Series A funding, which according to Hashimoto will be used to commercialize Atlas while continuing to support its open-source projects.
67339727
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rjmarvin writes:
According to Autism Speaks, about 85% of people who have autism in the United States are currently unemployed or underemployed, but a social enterprise organization called Meticulon is training autistic individuals for highly skilled jobs in software testing http://sdtimes.com/autistic-ad.... According to Meticulon, autistic people often possess sharp memory and pattern matching skills as well as attention to detail, making them ideal candidates for software testing jobs. Each year's crop of autistic students or Meticulon Consultants is tested and evaluated to develop their MindMap, a unique profile of skills and ideal work environment ultimately used to find these trained software testers an ideal job.
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rjmarvin writes:
The 18-year old software engineer behind CodeFightClub says it's okay to talk about CodeFightClub http://sdtimes.com/welcome-cod.... The new online programming arena where coders can go head-to-head in 84 different programming languages and templating syntaxes started as an open-source passion project and is quickly growing into a battleground http://code-fight.club/ where developers face off, trading code blows line-by-line while commenters and voters determine who's winning the fight as a competitive way to improve coding skills.
