The Raspberry Pi was originally designed to provide a low cost solution to all lovers of programming (including students). With the passage of time, a strong community around this little device has grown so as to transform the minicomputer into an object of worship. The board is inexpensive, efficient and massively supported with millions of ...

Spurred by recent advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence, context-aware intelligent assistants represent the new frontier of content search and discovery. Companies leverage unstructured data—things like photographs, videos, chat logs, documents—to make better, more informed business decisions to automate processes. Now leveraging humanlike capabilities inside automated workflows to augment what’s possible in business and ...

To support “write once, run anywhere” application development on new Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Update 1, Microsoft announced the release of the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. This update aligns with recent Microsoft products and supports the new features of Windows 8.1 Update 1 and Windows Phone 8.1. Last November, ...

As Twitter is now considered the global platform for public conversation, the company’s storage requirements have grown as well. In recent days, Twitter experiences something on order of 5,000 to 10,000 tweets a second (see the Twitter blog) from more than 240 million Twitter accounts (Twitter’s investor report.) Over the last few years, the company ...

While the cloud allows most organizations easy access to nearly unlimited compute power, it also creates significant complexity and scaling challenges. Approaching these issues with the same IT strategy of years past will fail. Simply put, companies need to first and foremost be open to the idea of change–from team hierarchies to cloud deployments to ...

Microsoft continues to woo the app development community and announced several new developer opportunities at Build 2014. These announcements included several interesting developer sessions focusing on Windows Phone 8.1, Windows Azure, Windows and other Microsoft platform. The two updates are obviously occupied a good part of the conference keynote, but the Redmond company has also ...

Microsoft has just had its JavaScript library WinJS placed under an open source license. WinJS, a JavaScript library that enables a native-quality experience in Windows Runtime apps using familiar web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, is now licensed under Apache 2.0. Now that the library is open source, Microsoft plans that developers can use it ...

Build, Microsoft’s annual conference for independent, third-party developers, is taking place through April 2 to April 4 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The Build Developer Conference is an annual event sponsored by Microsoft aimed at developers working on the Windows Phone platform, Microsoft Windows Azure apart from other Microsoft platforms and technologies. But ...

MariaDB, one of the most popular forks of MySQL, has announced the availability of version 10. This new release brings significant performance improvements in both speed and scalability compared to legacy MySQL code. Since its launch in 2009, SkySQL, the MariaDB Company, has built an active and vibrant community of developers that allows them to ...

In some companies, programmers ignore non-reproducable errors, however, the normal mission is to support testing and report them. Non-reproducible errors can be the most expensive bugs in your software company. Remember that when we have an error that we are not able to reproduce often causes a feeling of distrust in the product. Inevitably, programs ...