Topic: collaboration
GitLab’s master plan, Sentinet 4.8 released, and MySQL 8.0—SD Times news digest: Sept. 13, 2016
Today, GitLab announced a US$20 million Series B funding from investors August Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Y Combinator. This follows its previous round of funding from last September. With the funding, GitLab is bringing issues, wikis, code review, Continuous Integration and Deployment into one single user interface. Its latest release of Issue Boards and merge … continue reading
New App Store for developers, SmartBear simplifies API testing, and new collaboration tool Sympli—SD Times news digest: April 19, 2016
Apple has created a new section of its App Store for developers so they can share how they succeeded on it, and to show other developers what they have learned in the process. On Developer Insights, the section of the App Store designed for developers, there is a planning section that helps developers plan and … continue reading
Guest View: When success becomes your DevOps failure: Beware of survivorship bias
Read just about any article on DevOps and you’ll be sure to find liberal sprinklings of terms like “culture” and “collaboration” and “establishing strong feedback loops.” Go deeper and you’ll probably come across some head-scratching stuff like “anti-fragile,” “systems thinking,” and my own personal favorite: “learning from failure.” There’s nothing especially earth-shattering about learning from … continue reading
Guest View: How knowledge-management systems support software development
Software development is not only knowledge-intensive work, it is knowledge-sharing-intensive work. A huge amount of knowledge sharing is required among software architects, engineers, product managers, project managers, developers, QA testers, and so on. In this environment, companies that implement a knowledge-sharing process thrive, while those who don’t learn how to share knowledge effectively can quickly … continue reading
Heroku Enterprise, MapReduce for C, and Microsoft to optimize asm.js—SD Times news digest: Feb. 19, 2015
Salesforce has announced Heroku Enterprise, a new edition of the Heroku cloud application development platform featuring new team collaboration tooling, enhanced access controls and enterprise-grade support. Heroku Enterprise, built for enterprise-scale development, contains several new collaboration and control features for app development in large distributed teams: Shared Application Projects: Enable developer teams, partners and contractors … continue reading
Guest View: The 5 steps to building cooperative apps
Have you ever found yourself sitting at a park, walking through the mall, waiting onboard a plane to takeoff, with a couple annoying three-year-olds nearby that simply won’t cooperate? It seems they have this natural instinct to do all the wrong things. Scream and shout. Whine and cry. Disobey commands. And we’re left wishing they … continue reading
Yammering about development
Years ago, we heard about a movement in software development that was more about individuals and interactions than processes and tools. It was about responding to change and not a rigid plan. Of course, I’m quoting from the Agile Manifesto. Agile development didn’t spring to life overnight, but slowly and over time we’ve adapted as … continue reading
Industry Watch: The future of work
Employees working out of office and on their own terms are what managers can expect … continue reading
The future of work
Working out of office on employees’ terms is what managers can expect … continue reading
Securing SharePoint: Understanding your data
Before storing your data in the cloud, know the kind and sensitivity of that data … continue reading
SkyDox aims to reduce email
Software enhancements to SharePoint act like “document library on steroids,” company says … continue reading
