A new study from crowdsourced QA testers Global App Testing has explored developers’ biggest pain points, with Python dethroning JavaScript as Stack Overflow’s most questioned programming language.
The research focused on JavaScript, Python, R, Ruby, C#, C++, Java, Objective-C, Swift, PHP and SQL – not so much 11 languages but 10 languages and a database – and went through a...
An update to Chrome which appears intended to kill the use of ad block plugins will impact extensions in other categories.
The change would restrict Chrome's script blocking capabilities to the new DeclarativeNetRequest API instead of the old webRequest API.
Raymond Hill, Author of the uBlock Origin and uMatrix ad blockers, said in a bug report:
“If this (quite limited) declarativeNetRequest API ends up being the only way content...
Blockchain developer has been ranked as the number one profession on LinkedIn’s emerging jobs list for 2018.
LinkedIn’s recently released report, which places blockchain development at the top, shows 33x growth in the number of blockchain developers, 12x growth in machine learning engineers, 8x growth in application sales executives, and 6x growth in machine learning specialists and professional medical representatives.
Guy Berger, the chief economist at LinkedIn,...
Microsoft has launched a Google Optimize 360 competitor it calls Clarity, a solution enabling web developers to understand user behaviour at scale. The company found limitations in current A/B experimentation solutions it believes could be solved and set out to do so with Clarity. In a blog post, Microsoft wrote:
“While A/B experiments allow developers to see when their key metrics are moving, the primary drawback is the lack of visibility into why the metrics...
Java and JavaScript remain the dominant languages in the enterprise developer landscape – but with more agile ways of working coming to the fore, they certainly won’t be exclusive going forward.
That’s the verdict of the Cloud Foundry Foundation in its most recent report focusing on the top languages for enterprise application development.
The number of UK vacancies for developers has increased by four percent over the last two years, according to research by Joblift. Joblift is a job search platform that also monitors for notable changes in the career market. The findings in their latest research is evidence of the growing appetite for developers. Seven percent of all vacancies listed in the last 12 months requested programming expertise. These vacancies increased by an average of four percent each month, double the rate of...
Google Cloud has announced support for the popular cross-platform Node JavaScript runtime in the standard App Engine environment
Node.js allows server code to be written in JavaScript. With the support added today, Google is seeking to make this process as simple for developers as possible.
To ensure simplicity, Google is not putting any limitation on the Node.js packages that developers can use — and it will not have any language or API...
Online developer community Stack Overflow has posted its latest UK and Ireland Developer Hiring Landscape report, providing insights on the nations’ workforce.
The results are based on ‘the largest survey of software developers ever’ with over 100,000 respondents.
Developer SalariesDevelopers in England receive a median salary of £45,000, compared to £42,000 in Scotland, £41,500 in Wales and just £37,750 in Northern...
What do enterprise developers want? A cloud-native Java, according to a new consultation from the Eclipse Foundation.
The study, which polled more than 1,800 Java developers – 44% of whom categorised themselves as senior developers with a further 24% as architects – put cloud-native as an ‘imperative’ for enterprise Java going forward.
‘Two critical gaps in Java EE are now top priorities for Jakarta EE’, the foundation notes – lest we...
Stack Overflow has released its annual study of the development industry. The company says its 2018 edition represents the ‘largest ever’ study of developer attitudes, salaries, and demographics.
Joel Spolsky, CEO of Stack Overflow, says:
“Today, every company is a technology company. Without developers, the economy would not evolve at the pace we’re seeing today.
They are the architects of code...
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