“The very bad news is that security is still an after-thought for many NoSQL databases,” MyNoSQL editor Alex Popescu wrote in response to the leaked password hashes by the Node Package Manager last week. I commented that it’s a bit unfair to characterize security as an afterthought, and Popescu responded: “a different way to put ...

Today Typesafe, the company co-founded by Scala creator Martin Odersky, announced the release of Typesafe Stack 2.0. The new version of adds a proprietary management console, along with the newest version of the Akka middleware announced last week. The stack also includes the latest version of Scala and the Play framework. Typesafe was founded last ...

Earlier this year UC4 acquired the application release management software vendor Ventum, adding development management tools to its existing set of operations management tools. Now UC4 is releasing a new version of its ONE Automation suite with a new Web based interface and out of the box support for several version control systems and application servers ...

Serena Software has added several new features to its application lifecycle management (ALM) suite, including an entirely new application called Serena Demand Manager. The big change here is that Serena is now including both its Orchestrated ALM and its Orchestrated Ops family of products under a single umbrella called “Orchestrated IT.” Serena has been around ...

Geoloqi, the proprietary geolocation platform for developers that I profiled recently will announce new partnerships today at SXSW during co-founder Amber Case’s keynote speech. The partnerships are: Appcelerator: Appcelerator is the company behind Titanium, a platform for building native apps for multiple operating systems using a single JavaScript/HTML/CSS code base. Geoloqi’s platform will now be ...

The need for developers and operations to work more closely together is a key part of DevOps. But how do you get everyone on the same page? Since the early days of groupware at Lotus there’s been an explosion of tools to help teams collaborate, some geared specifically at developers or IT, others meant for ...

Drawn to Scale, the makers of the proprietary “relational-like” distributed database Spire, announced today that it has raised $925,000 in seed funding from RTP Ventures, a new $750 million fund, IA Ventures, which has its own big data fund, and SK Ventures. Up to now the company has been self-funded. Spire, currently in private beta, ...

Node Package Manager (NPM), the primary source for Node.js modules, had been exposing registry users’ password hashes for quite some time NPM creator and Node.js gatekeeper Isaac Schlueter disclosed today. Schlueter wrote that although the passwords themselves were not leaked, he still strongly recommends that users change their passwords in NPM and anywhere else they ...

In a panel on big data in small business at IBM PartnerWorld, IBM Program Director of Energy Technology David Barnes said “geeks are cool now,” referring to the rising status of developer and data scientists in the Facebook age. Geeks may be cool, but IBM desperately wants to keep the geeks and the business people ...

Today Atlassian announced that it has acquired private chat company HipChat. Terms of the deal were not announced. Atlassian sells development collaboration tools like the bug tracker JIRA, which just added some social collaboration features and the wiki Atlassian, which you’ve probably seen if you’ve looked at much online documentation in the past few years, ...