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5 screen-sharing apps offer easy collaboration

These five apps that will let you video chat, message, share screens and collaborate in real-time with your coworkers.

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What are Microservices?

Developers are finding a new way to create apps and programs - here's a quick look at how microservices work, and what it means for IT shops and their development operations.

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What you should know about microservices

Microservices and container-based applications are becoming ever more popular. Why? And what does the emergence of these trends mean for your shop? This primer explains what microservices are, why your app-dev teams want to use them...

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Angular 3 coming hot on the heels of Angular 2

Angular 3 will have better tooling and will generate less code; Google also is promising a new major version twice a year

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How to ace the coding challenge

Coding interviews are nerve-wracking, even for programmers with a computer science or engineering degree. They are e even scarier if you're a self-taught programmer. But using blind coding challenges can help boost your performance...

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SAP updates HANA in-memory database

For businesses that just want to get off the update treadmill, SAP will support the version released back in May, HANA Support Package Stack (SPS) 12, through May 2019.

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2 JavaScript insiders predict its future features

ECMAScript insiders say the new features present complicated problems but are optimistic about their inclusion in future versions of JavaScript

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Microsoft adds Kubernetes support to Azure Container Service

Microsoft is aiming to capitalize further on companies' move towards containerization with a set of updates announced Monday for its public cloud platform.

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The Orange Pi Zero single-board computer ships for $6.99

At $6.99, a new Raspberry Pi competitor called Orange Pi Zero costs less than some sandwiches in New York City.

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U.S. launches Code.gov software-sharing website

Code.gov, a U.S. government website for promoting the sharing of custom-developed software code, was launched Thursday with listings of nearly 50 open-source projects from various government agencies.

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Cisco puts Spark at the heart of enterprise work

On Tuesday at Cisco’s conference for channel partners, the company laid out an ambitious goal for its Spark collaboration platform and announced two moves to make it more attractive to enterprises.

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Document-style language targets citizen developers

The Eve language focuses on documents and records rather than code, letting developers create based on how people think instead of on how code is compiled

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Ready for action: 6 big ideas in digital transformation

Read the inside stories from leading-edge organizations using digital technologies to become more agile, more flexible and more profitable. This 49-page report features advice from IT executives at the U.S. Postal Service, Hunter...

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WebAssembly available as release candidate

A browser preview backed by Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft is now ready, with the final official specification expected in Q1 of 2017

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Next step after Node.js is a framework for 'universal' JavaScript apps

Next.js, a minimalistic framework for server-rendered React applications, builds on the work started by Node.js

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Why don't developers have a 'spell check' for security'?

Despite all the news coverage about successful cyberattacks, developers are still writing code full of security vulnerabilities. Of course, nobody is perfect. We all make mistakes, and as software projects get more and more complex,...

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Yet another JVM language? Whiley takes fresh approach

We may not need another JVM language, but open source Whiley could wind up with other back ends

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For 2017, Rust language puts ease ahead of features

For next year, the language will focus on easier use, better tooling, and improved integration with other languages

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