Software development

Software development

Until now, Jules - Google's asynchronous coding agent - was only accessible via its website and GitHub. On Thursday, the company introduced Jules Tools, a command-line interface that brings Jules directly into the developer's terminal. The CLI lets developers interact with the agent using commands, streamlining workflows by eliminating the need to switch between the web interface and GitHub. It allows them to stay within their environment while delegating coding tasks and validating results.

Imagine being able to take any live website and instantly transform it into clean, editable code - ready for you to experiment with or build upon. No manual recreations and no starting from scratch. Just paste a link, and watch the site turn into a working codebase in seconds. Sounds like magic, right? But we actually have a solution for this on the market, and it's called Anima Web To Code.

Affinity was purchased by Canva (an online creative publishing tool) in May 2024, and so far there haven't been any major changes to the software's model. Up until this week, you could still buy a one-off subscription, and the tools remain as powerful as ever. Does this move mean that the acquisition has led to something different altogether for one of our top graphic design software picks?

I also plan on retiring someday, and I'm guessing I'm not the only senior developer who plans on doing that. In fact, I feel very confident saying that 100% of senior developers will, one way or another, stop coding at some point. Now, math is hard, I know, but it seems incandescently obvious to me that to be a senior developer, you must first be a junior developer, and if there are no junior developers, then we'll eventually run out of senior developers.

Please update your systems to take care of a security related bug we found last month. Luis Falcon has found that trytond may log sensitive data like passwords when the logging level is set to INFO. ImpactCVSS v3.0 Base Score: 4.2 Attack Vector: Network Attack Complexity: Low Privileges Required: High User Interaction: None Scope: Unchanged Confidentiality: High Integrity: None Availability: None Workaround Increasing the logging level above INFO prevents logging of the sensitive data.

We have started inviting people in from the beta list in waves of thousands, but decided to post the link as well in the Windows channel ... as a way to jump the line.

meaning those users who choose to adopt the new platform - each ServiceNow customer runs a private instance and can change to new versions at a time of their choosing - already have more AI to play with. Chief Innovation Officer Dave Wright told us ServiceNow did so simply because it wanted to get more AI into users' hands ASAP, as it believes they want it.

System76's Pop!_OS seems to be one of the more popular Ubuntu remixes among tech-savvy Linux enthusiasts. That may mean that the bolder of them are about to break their computers, because finally, the beta of version 24.04 is here, along with the beta version of the company's COSMIC desktop. The version number is because this release is based on Ubuntu 24.04, aka "Noble Numbat," which was emitted by Canonical at the end of April 2024.

The tag did a good job of handling creating the right oauth link for you. So you could (after setting stuff up with your provider of course) drop the tag on a page, and when the user hit it, they would be prompted to login with the third party provider. When returned, the tag would handle getting the access token and such and giving you a nice little structure of data for you to use.

Valkey was forked from Redis in April last year after the popular in-memory database - often used as a cache - moved to a less permissive license. Shifting Redis to a dual-licensed Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public License (SSPLv1) prompted the Linux Foundation to fork the code from Redis 7.2.4, backed by AWS, Google, Snap, Ericsson, Oracle, and others.

In fact, the subtitle is more descriptive: "In which a G-Suite user navigates the upside-down world of Exchange, 365, and SharePoint." It's a fascinating glimpse into how horrifyingly complex, even irrational, the Microsoft 365 software stack looks to someone who is used to the Gmail way of handling such business communications: groupware, as it was called in the ancient times. Email, user accounts, file sharing, and so on.

Legacy Update is a third-party Windows Update client which can update old, unsupported versions of Windows, from Windows 10 and 11 all the way back to Windows 2000. And now, Legacy Update version 1.12 is here, with a significant rewrite of one component to make it smaller and faster. It can fetch and install all the available updates for every 21st century version of Windows. It's also very handy for Windows XP and Windows 7.

Another example is a loan calculator that figures out monthly payments based on user inputs (e.g., load amount, interest rate, loan term) and then generates a payment schedule in a formatted table. Or a monthly financial analysis for a small business with a breakdown of product lines.

Meta has implemented a new machine learning framework for Instagram that applies diversity algorithms to reduce repetitive content while maintaining user engagement. The diversity-aware ranking system addresses overexposure to similar content creators and product types by introducing multiplicative penalties to existing engagement models. The framework tackles two primary problems: excessive messages from the same content creator and overemphasis on single-product surfaces like Stories while neglecting Feed or Reels content.

Imagine you appear for an interview with the top giants. You have been asked a DSA problem, and you have somehow reached a perfect solution. Now, the interviewer asks, 'Could you please let me know the time and space complexity for this code?' After gaining experience in conducting interviews, I have observed a moment of confusion among DSA beginners when answering this question. They usually struggle to explain the time and space complexity of their code solution.

Wing Python IDE version 11.0.5 has been released. It fixes remote development with older Python versions, improves Python code analysis when using Python 3.14 and for type hints on instance attributes, and fixes Find Uses and Refactoring to find all overrides of a method. Downloads Be sure to in Wing's menu after downloading, to make sure that you have the latest hot fixes.

I was supposed to do four years, go through university and head back home for family business, decided I liked tech too much. I got my first job at EMC running their networks across I would say a few hundred offices, which was really interesting. From there, I made my way into an ops role, which is where a lot of what we do at RapDev began.

Microsoft and GitHub have made AI assistance a key part of their software development tools. Embedded in the latest Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code releases, GitHub Copilot puts a multifaceted pair programmer-combining AI-powered code completion, coding agents, and various Model Context Protocol servers-right inside your editor. The resulting tool kit is especially useful as part of a well-designed application development life cycle. Outside of good software engineering practices, however, it's easy to let vibe coding run away with itself, adding features that aren't needed and making code overly complex.

With the new refactor feature, the company addresses a significant pain point: previously, any change to a resource's logical ID caused by renaming or moving a construct would force AWS CloudFormation to delete and then recreate the resource. This destructive process often led to data loss and downtime for stateful resources, such as databases, causing many developers to avoid refactoring altogether.

Workforce management (WFM) software helps you plan, track and optimize labor. You build schedules, capture time, enforce pay rules and align staffing to demand. Real-time insights help managers forecast labor and shut down overtime before it starts. Consistency across teams reduces disputes and cleanup work. The benefits of workforce management software go beyond compliance. Teams follow the same time capture and scheduling playbook in every location. Automated rules reduce errors on overtime and breaks. Managers get early warnings on gaps and adjust staffing in minutes.

Microsoft announced an extension to its .NET Standard Term Support releases from 18 months to 24 months, as reported on the company's official development blog. The policy change, effective with .NET 9, will extend support for the latest release until November 10, 2026, matching the end-of-support date for .NET 8, a Long Term Support version. As stated by Microsoft, the company will maintain its established annual release schedule each November.

Pure Storage has announced a series of updates designed to enable organizations to roll out AI workloads and traditional enterprise applications better and faster. The company's aim is to make data more mobile and give organizations more control over their data, regardless of where it is located. Earlier this year, we wrote about the Enterprise Data Cloud. The company announced this new architecture a few months ago during the annual Pure Accelerate event.

The development of bcachefs has been officially jettisoned from that of the Linux kernel itself. At present, the work-in-progress kernel 6.17 still contains bcachefs code, but unmodified from the 6.16 release. In response, the project has published its first set of packages of a version that can be dynamically loaded as a DKMS module, as promised a couple of weeks ago in an email from project lead Kent Overstreet.

What Is Iterative Development? An iterative process makes progress through refinement. An iterative approach to work starts with a rough version of a feature or product, then improves it through repeated cycles-each one getting closer to the final form. For example, a sculptor who approaches work iteratively might begin by roughly carving a block of stone. With each pass, they would refine the form-adding details, smoothing edges, and continuously improving until the sculpture reaches its final shape.

One of our favorite tools is Claude Code, the AI coding assistant from Anthropic, which we're using to explore ideas, ship features, and create documentation. But while Claude Code is powerful out of the box, its real potential emerges when you customize it to fit your workflow. In this article, I'm going to walk through a handful of tips and tricks that help you move beyond simply entering prompts into a text box.

The beta version of Zorin OS 18 arrives with some promising changes. Initially, the beta is of the "Core" edition, meaning that it uses a GNOME-based desktop and doesn't include Zorin OS's comprehensive application library. The company's Artyom Zorin told us that an Xfce-based version will follow in time: Yes, we've committed to releasing a Lite edition of Zorin OS 18. However, its launch will happen later this year, after the initial stable release of Zorin OS 18.

In GraalJS, a JavaScript language implementation built on GraalVM, GraalVM 25 enables source-phase imports from WebAssembly modules ( import source mod from "./mod.wasm") by default if the js.webassembly option is enabled and the js.source-phase-imports option is not set to false. ECMAScript 25 also is enabled by default. With GraalWasm, an open source WebAssembly runtime, Context.eval now returns a compiled (but not yet instantiated) module object, rather than a module instance.