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Now that we know the concepts behind GitHub and Git, it’s time to have fun. Part 2 of our two-part series.

GitHub is more than just a programmer’s tool. If you want to collaborate on anything, you should give it a try. Part 1 of a two-part look at getting started with GitHub.

It’s about so much more than giving code away.

With a little help from Amazon.

Artificial intelligence is topping headlines. Whether it’s self-driving cars or Alexa storing your grocery preferences, it seems that AI is finding its way in to just about everything these days, and the implications for daily life and work over the next decade are likely to be significant. Many jobs are at risk for disruption, and […]

Imagine you go to a bookstore, and you notice and exciting cover. You pick the book, read the summary at the back, and the rave reviews. The plot seems intriguing enough, but when you check for the writer, it says “ by AI-something.” Would you buy the book, or would you think that was a […]

It’s tricky, but worth it, to think about the pixels.

With the recent trends towards automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence as it appears that just the application of AI can not transform the enterprise computing as now, it has the power to change project management as well. A well-known core concept with AI systems is that their predictions are only as amazing as their […]

So continuous delivery may live.

VMWare describes the shift to the cloud as the most significant shift in enterprise architecture of the decade and that 500 million new apps will be launched in the next five years. Thanks to containers, compute costs are falling by 50%, and resources can be provisioned 450X faster. With Kubernetes going mainstream — a wave […]

There’s a fine line between tossing something together to learn and releasing a product that’s not ready.

Growing and maturing a company are two different operations, yet they share a common goal: to stay in business for the long run. As the number of new companies multiplies all over the globe, competition grows fierce. Surviving the digital age in a sea of competitors requires thoughtful preparedness and agility. What we want to […]

Tips for getting your open source contributions approved with aplomb.

One of the most significant common challenges shared by IT executives everywhere is legacy software. Here’s what to do about it. A survey in the 2019 State of IT Report found that 64 percent of companies listed need to upgrade outdated IT infrastructure. Here are some mistakes that can derail a legacy software conversion. Businesses list […]

As a programmer, large amounts of your productive time, you are working on your own. Doing research, testing potential solutions until you piece the product together to a point you are happy with your work. Then you start the process of debugging and optimizing. For this reason, many software development companies now offer programmers the […]

Creating a product that solves customers’ problems is not just a matter of intuition, expertise, or brainstorming. Often, marketers get so overly confident in their knowledge of the market. A marketer may believe that there’s always the option to look at the state of things. Instead of imagining what the options might be, sales and […]

In software development, the amount of time invested in software testing directly correlates to the success of a finished product. That being said, no one can afford to test a product endlessly when the priority is getting it to market. Techniques like unit testing have helped to streamline how software developers critique their creations, but these […]

The boring work of testing is critical.

When people think about the technology at Starbucks, free Wi-Fi, the loyalty program, mobile payments, or remote ordering usually come to mind. But it all started in a far less sexy way. Here’s why your company’s tech transformation starts with the backend. Most major technology overhauls start with a company’s backend—the tech running behind the […]

IBM adds to their Cloud Data Services

Developers must look elsewhere.

Cayenne is trying to ease building apps for the Internet of Things.

They keep the mind from wandering, it turns out.

Mobile is about apps, not search. That could be a problem.

So continuous delivery may live.

Guest author Richard MacManus is the founder of ReadWrite. This article originally appeared in his Augment Intelligence newsletter.  If you’re thinking that virtual reality (VR) is all about gaming, then think again.  Are you a sports fan? The US Open Golf Tournament was livestreamed in VR last year. A music fan? Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift, Jack […]

A port in a storm?

It’s about so much more than giving code away.

Challenge accepted.

Lessons learned from building apps beyond 140 characters.

Distributed ledgers have more applications than finance.

Politwoops is back in business.

Google replaces JDK with Open JDK

An assault on encryption.

And a directory, so you can find them.

Facebook devs can start greeting Apple’s latest gizmos.

Autonomous vehicles will radically change lives. No wonder everyone wants in.

There’s an app on your TV for that.

The developer-friendly login service now works on tvOS.