Coding

West coast big data platform player Concurrent has introduced its Cascading 2.0 application framework. Targeting Java developers looking to use Apache Hadoop to build data processing and data management applications, Cascading 2.0 now exists as an alternative API to MapReduce. This is an application framework that can be deployed on […]

Aiming to justify a claim to its “world’s leading provider of open source solutions” tagline this week is Red Hat with its developer and user summit being staged in Boston. The event sees news of the now generally available JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6. As companies like Red Hat refine […]

In much the same way that Java replaced C++ 15 years ago as the dominant programming language for enterprise software, Web development technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript and others might supplant traditional programming languages today, according to an Oracle software executive. The reason for the shift is that new Web […]

Pervasive Software has this month released Data Integrator v10 – Hadoop Edition to the Apache Hadoop user community with a view to helping the flow of data both to and from Hadoop-based big data stores. The argument here is that developers are now tasked with integrating big data sets into […]

The last few weeks I’ve been playing with the BeagleBone — an inexpensive little Linux box aimed at embedded systems. Naturally, you can program it as you would any similar board using C, C++, or a variety of other Linux languages. However, I’ve been probing into how much use the […]

Microsoft has been using its TechEd 2012 developer and user conference this June to woo the Orlando crowds with news of Team Foundation Service, Windows LightSwitch, and Windows RT (Windows on ARM) for ARM-based tablet devices. Corporate developer division VP Jason Zander has detailed, as is his usual way, the […]

Versant’s Java Persistence API is now compatible with the Spring application development framework for enterprise Java. The company says it extended its technology to make this pairing based on a strategy of lowering the barriers “frequently presented” by NoSQL, as Versant would have it. The company really wants to be […]

Black Duck has enhanced its open source software (OSS) management and governance platform to bring the product to its 6.1 release. Black Duck Suite is engineered to speed open source code discovery and code visibility to improve developers’ compliance and collaboration issues. This product works to identify OSS and other […]

The NAG Library for SMP Multicore, a de facto standard for numerical code, has been extended with an additional group of algorithms, specifically engineered for the current generation of computer systems. NOTE: The NAG Library is the largest commercial numerical algorithm library. It was developed to harness the performance gains […]