The Agile Manifesto was ahead of its time

by | Nov 13, 2024 | Cloud

Last week I went on a short rant about scrum, and how it isn’t agile and is, well, dumb. It occurred to me that one of the obstacles to truly being agile has been the limits of software technology. The way we had to build and deliver software didn’t lend itself to...

Kotlin for Java developers

by | Nov 13, 2024 | Cloud

After Java, Kotlin is the most popular JVM language. Kotlin is an expressive, concise language with strong functional programming support. It’s especially appealing to Java developers because it is fully interoperable with Java, and the syntax is an easy...

Docker tutorial: Get started with Docker volumes

by | Nov 13, 2024 | Cloud

Docker containers are meant to be immutable, meaning the code and data they hold never change. Immutability is useful when you want to be sure the code running in production is the same as the code that passed QA testing; it’s not so useful when you need to write data...

Visual Studio 17.12 brings C++, Copilot enhancements

by | Nov 13, 2024 | Cloud

Visual Studio 2022 17.12, the latest version of Microsoft’s signature integrated development environment (IDE), is now generally available, with improvements ranging from productivity enhancements for C++ developers to integrated AI variable inspection in the GitHub...