Darryl K. Taft covers the development tools and developer-related issues beat from his office in Baltimore. He has more than 10 years of experience in the business and is always looking for the next scoop. Taft is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and was named 'one of the most active middleware reporters in the world' by The Middleware Co. He also has his own card in the 'Who's Who in Enterprise Java' deck.
JNBridge, a maker of interoperability tools that connect the Java and .NET Frameworks, has announced its latest lab that demonstrates how to build .NET-based Language Integrated Query (LINQ) providers for Java-based HBase. The lab is available as of Oct. 10 on JNBridge’s labs Website. HBase is a distributed big data storage and retrieval system developed […]
Compuware, an application performance management solution provider, has announced Compuware APM for Mainframe, the company’s new solution for deep transaction management from the edge through the mainframe. By combining Compuware dynaTrace’s PurePath Technology with Compuware Strobe’s mainframe application management technology, distributed system and mainframe teams can resolve performance problems faster, reduce MIPS costs, postpone hardware […]
IBM and AT&T have announced an agreement to deliver a highly secure, “network-enabled” cloud service that uses private networks rather than the public Internet. In an Oct. 9 announcement, the companies said they are combining AT&T virtual private networking and IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+ cloud capabilities with new technology from AT&T Labs to create the new […]
IBM has expanded its family of expert integrated PureSystems with the new PureData System, which features analytics and the ability to handle big data in the box. To help global organizations make sense of the massive influx of data being created daily, IBM expanded its PureSystems family. Now users can more efficiently manage and quickly […]
Coverity, a provider of development testing solutions, recently announced the next generation of its Coverity Development Testing Platform, an integrated suite of software testing technologies for identifying and remediating critical quality and security issues during development. Coverity’s new release features the new Coverity Test Advisor, which includes technology for change impact analysis to focus unit […]
The W3C, in collaboration with Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera and others, has announced today the alpha release of Web Platform Docs (docs.webplatform.org). Web Platform Docs is a new community-driven site that aims to become a comprehensive and authoritative source for Web developer documentation. In the past, developers who use HTML5, Cascading […]
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that Apache Airavata, an open-source framework for managing small to large-scale applications, has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP). The Airavata project was initiated at the National Science Foundation (NSF). It is an open-source software framework used for executing and managing small to […]
State of IPv4 Address Exhaustion Around the Globe On Sept. 14, RIPE NCC (Regional Internet Registry Network Coordination Centre), one of five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) that allocates Internet addresses, announced that it has started to hand out IPv4 addresses from the last block that it holds. This will make RIPE NCC, which allocates addresses […]
Great American Ball Park Past and present collide at the Cincinnati Reds’ Great American Ball Park, where one of baseball’s most historic franchises has also become one of its most technology-savvy. Connected Ticket Kiosks A row of ticket kiosks waits for game time. Running Windows Embedded software, the kiosks connect to back-end systems operated by […]
Education and training are key to bringing the benefits of big data to the federal government, according to a group of industry leaders who recently met in Washington, D.C. Indeed, training the federal workforce about analytics and data science is central to tapping into big data, according to a new report released by the TechAmerica […]