You can’t beat good BBQ. As long as I’ve been eating, I’ve loved the taste of BBQ cooked correctly, and I’ve loved the science of getting BBQ right, no matter...
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Java developers would be clued in to race conditions in their projects, if a thread sanitizer proposed comes to fruition. Project Tsan, proposed in the OpenJDK community, would explore and...
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As much as I love R, it’s clear that Python is also a great language—both for data science and general-purpose computing. And there can be good reasons an R user...
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Next.js, a framework for building server-rendered apps with JavaScript and the React UI library, adds serverless computing capabilities as part of its new Version 8. Next.js 8 enables serverless deployment,...
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Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been playing around with Parcel, the zero-configuration web application bundler. I had a few issues with automagical dependency management, but for the most...
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If you develop applications that present data to users, you’re likely to have requirements to present a graph, chart, dashboard, or other data visualization embedded in the application. This capability...
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“Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.”― William Shakespeare, King Lear “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.”―...
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Lift the hood on most any business application, and you’ll reveal some way to store and use structured data. Whether it’s a client-side app, an app with a web front-end,...
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The release candidate for Java Development Kit 12, the next version of Java SE, is now available. Only Priority 1 bugs will be considered for inclusion in the production release...
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Two of IBM’s Watson-branded collection of machine-intelligence services will be available to run as standalone applications in the public or private cloud of your choice. IBM is delivering these local Watson...
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