Displaying items by tag: Software Development

GUEST OPINION: Keen to speed up innovation and achieve a competitive edge, increasing numbers of Australian organisations are turning to cloud-native architectures and DevOps practices. The logic is that this will allow faster development cycles and give the ability to take advantage of new opportunities as they arise.

Australian software development and collaboration tools provider Atlassian has blamed a long-running outage across its products on a communications gap between its teams and a faulty script, adding that about 45% of those affected were back and running, with complete resolution of the problem expected to take another two weeks.

Alice Springs founded software engineering firm HutSix is looking to expand into South Australia.

Cloud computing is well and truly entrenched, and with it, software developers are increasingly expected to create and deploy cloud-based services and APIs. There’s a new programming language on the block, Ballerina, which makes it easier for developers to integrate cloud-native services, data, transactions, and processes, in both a pro-code and low-code form.

GUEST OPINION:  In recent years there have been a lot of fresh insights into how we think and make decisions. These insights have greatly helped businesses concerned with software development and customer experience. Maybe the time has come to also think afresh about the way business has changed, as we’ve moved from the industrial era to the digital age, because our management practices relating to quality may be out of date. Connecting these new insights together will allow us to optimise customer experience.

Developer security specialist Snyk has appointed Marc Tan to the newly created role of channels and alliances director for Australia and New Zealand.

Technology consultancy Thoughtworks has unveiled its First Nations Delivery Centre, a remote-first software consulting and development team comprising at least 50% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander technologists.

Veteran-founded organisation WithYouWithMe is allocating $10 million dollars of free digital skills training to Afghan refugees following the fall of Kabul.

COMPANY NEWS: Australian developer Devworkz has announced the launch of Safe Havens, a modern child abuse protection system for education, councils, sporting groups and faith-based communities across Australia and New Zealand. The cloud-based platform is designed to provide a full end-to-end service for the development of Child Safe capabilities, child-focused reporting, case management, and performance reporting.

Software development and deployment tool specialist Progress has announced a new verison of Progress Telerik Test Studio, its enterprise UI test automation platform.

GitLab Inc today released version 14, the next iteration of its application, providing a complete DevOps end-to-end platform.

Apple has now announced iPadOS 15 is coming later this year and with it the ability to develop iPad and iOS apps right on your iPad and submit them to the App Store for publication.

Open-source software repository and collaboration site GitHub contains the text-based source code for millions upon millions of projects, and today announced the general availability of video uploads across the site. This allows teams to clearly demonstrate problems, workflows, or inspirational ideas.

GitHub's desktop client has been updated, and the new version 2.8 release includes the ability to expand diffs above or below changes to gain more context and other features to create aliases for local repositories and hide whitespace in diffs.

Identity provider Okta has announced Okta Starter Developer Edition, which will provide developers with the tools needed to embed Okta authentication, authorisation and user management into applications at scale.

The SolarWinds attack, and all its ramifications, have made news headlines for months. Tim Brown, the company’s CISO and VP of Security spoke exclusively to iTWire to lay out what really happened - and what did not happen.  It is also a sobering call to how software development practices can never be the same again.

Jaguar Racing has gained the support of enterprise software provider Micro Focus for its tilt at the Formula E championship.

GUEST OPINION by Kathryn Ramanathan, ANZ Channel and Distribution Manager, Cohesity:  As Australian organisations recover from the disruptions of the past 12 months and make fresh plans for the year ahead, many are seeking ways to improve the performance and flexibility of their IT departments.

The R1 2021 release of .Net software development tool collection Progress Telerik includes more than 65 native UI components and over 100 grid features for Blazor, as well as improved reporting.

4 December 2020 is the 25th anniversary of JavaScript's debut. It's probably fair to say that the language has had a much greater impact than anyone expected in 1995.