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It was just over one year ago that the last major version for Django was launched. On March 26th 2012, Django 1.4, which is a Python based web framework, was launched. The biggest addition to the framework is that it includes help for handling dates and times in the form of time zone support. The new objects in the framework, called 'time-zone-aware' objects, are capable of storing time and date … [Read more...]
Fabric Engine is a software engineering firm which provides developers, who work with different dynamic languages, with compiled performance in a multi-threaded manner. It recently released version 1.0 of Fabric Engine which is its computing platform for delivering high performance. The client and server side Fabric Engine technology recently earned the Judges Choice at NodeJam, which took place … [Read more...]
When you want to create an argument between programmers, all you need to do is ask them which coding language is the best. More often than not, you will hear support for various languages like Ruby, Python, and PHP. Rarely will there be a case when all programmers agree upon a single language. Frankly, choosing between these three languages can be a bit complicated. All of the languages … [Read more...]
Anonymous is a group that formed in 2003 and represented the ideals of many online and offline community users co-existing as an anarchic group. In its early form, the Anonymous group acted in a coordinated manner toward a common goal and primarily focused on the entertainment industry. Five years later, in 2008, the Anonymous group became increasingly associated with hacking and … [Read more...]
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where a full-time staff, Member organizations and the public work together to develop Web Standards. Led by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and CEO Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C's mission is to lead the Web to its full potential. The staff at W3C is made up of 65 people working from locations across the world. W3C is hosted by the … [Read more...]
Oracle recently shipped its Big Data Appliance in January, according to a ComputerWorld.com report. This appliance together with the NoSQL database was unveiled last fall at the OpenWorld user conference. The company declared that this new appliance will run Cloudera's Apache Hadoop implementation and management software. This announcement was made on the day of the shipment of the appliance. This … [Read more...]
According to a recent BGR.com report, only 27% of smartphone owners in the U.S. owns an iPhone, while 47% of them owned Android devices. The research also found that less than half the people researched their phones before purchase and their decision was mostly based on Google's reputation. This amounts to Android having almost twice the market share as compared to Google. The most popular brand … [Read more...]
Last year was a year that saw a lot of changes in the world of programming languages. Mobile phones continued to emerge as a popular platform for programming, and when it came to applications and data use, the most popular platforms were cloud based. PCs and laptops got a lot more computing power though the multiple core processors and RAM, which also ended up affecting the programming languages … [Read more...]
An interesting Dailymaverick.co.za article shows how programming languages and open-source technologies can help media organizations deliver news that is more relevant, local and personalized. Reporters can use technology tools to perform their jobs quickly, conveniently and successfully. This is especially true for investigative journalism, where there is typically a need for large amounts of … [Read more...]
Apple has been the technology leader for quite some time now, but with out Steve Jobs, companies like Google, Amazon, Samsung and Microsoft are swiftly moving forward to catch up. Some of the new releases in 2012 are expected to rival and surpass that of Apple, thus making the pressure to remain number one a challenge. The iphone, MacBook Air and the iPad are all expected to get some stiff … [Read more...]
Yammer, a social network, has been built on Scala, but is now ready to make the move to Java. Scala is a general purpose, statically typed language on the Java Virtual Machine for high performance back end services. A few clients that are using Scala include web leaders like Twitter and LinkedIn. The reason for the move by Yammer is that Scala was not good at some tasks and noted it was a … [Read more...]
Apple has developed some useful apps for students that can turn their tablets into educational power houses. Not only can the Apple iPad allow you to save money by renting textbooks digitally, they can also serve as day planners and notebooks all rolled into one device that is accessible to them all the time. Pages costs $9.99, and allows you to write entire essays in class, either directly … [Read more...]
Since Oracle and Sun Microsystems joined forces, the number of Oracle and IDE tools have grown to a point where it is a little overwhelming to choose which tools are necessary to build applications. The Oracle tools for devlopers can be divided into four categories if you seperate the tools for Solaris /Linux and the Java APIs. These categories are Java/SOA, .Net, Business Intelligence … [Read more...]
Oracle is in the process of suing Google for patent infringements on the Java script used in Google's Android. The trial was set to begin October 31, 2011, but Judge William Alsup has postponed the trial to begin sometime in 2012. Talks between both CEO's have not worked out, so it looks like a settlement may not be reached, and a trial may begin in 2012. Lawyers for both sides met early … [Read more...]
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