The process of developing software takes place in tools well beyond a developer’s IDE. Often it involves a number of specialized tools to manage all sorts of aspects of planning, design, implementation, and testing. By enabling information to flow seamlessly between each tool, integration can help enable this whole process to work a little …
If Isaac Newton were alive today, we might have the Newtonian laws of software development: For every increase in our ability to construct complex software, there shall be an equal increase in the demand for even more complex software. One solution to keeping up with this increased demand might be to apply artificial intelligence techniques …
I experienced my first small earthquake (a 4.7 magnitude on the Richter scale) in Vancouver, over the Christmas holiday. I didnt even realize it was happening, since I was sleeping. This got me thinking about planning, not only for my familys safety, but also in general. As a developer, planning was key to the Agile …
Developing and testing changes in an environment that is the same as the deployment environment is one of the magic ingredients of the DevOps way. For engineers at Tasktop working on the Integration Factory, provisioning a new VM can occur multiple times in a day, so any inefficiencies in the process are painful. I recently …
We are just back from the Agile, Continuous Delivery and DevOps Transformation Summit and, from what we can tell it more than lived up to its promotion. For three days, software development and delivery professionals availed themselves of talks, educational sessions, vendor information and networking in the beautiful Bay Area. It’s our understanding that this …
On September 4, 2014 WhiteHat and Tasktop announced their partnership, while simultaneously introducing the WhiteHat Integration Server. The WhiteHat Integration Server is an OEM of Tasktop Sync technology, which includes a connector to WhiteHat Sentinel, and a selection of connectors. The addition of security to the Tasktop ecosystem is important for so many reasons. Security …
This was the tenth year of EclipseCon and my fourth time attending. I have been using the Eclipse IDE for over 12 years and so much has changed with technology and developers’ expectations. At the beginning, just having a single Java IDE that was smart enough to edit, compile, run, and debug your code was …