Microsoft releases open source source code analyser
Microsoft Application Inspector allows developers to detect the features and characteristics of software components before using them.
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JavaScript is the most in-demand IT skill
JavaScript is the skill that is most in-demand for IT in 2020, according to a report from developer skills tester DevSkiller.
Web developers are frustrated by web browsers
Mozilla Developer Network survey indicates broad satisfaction with web technologies, with browser support being the main frustration.
Microsoft readies new language for safe programming
Soon to be open source, Project Verona takes a different approach to object ownership and concurrency to ensure safe memory management.
Microsoft to participate in open source Java
Microsoft has joined the OpenJDK project to contribute small bug fixes and backports and learn how to be good Java citizens.
Fate of Sun's products up in the air
With rumors of an impending Sun-IBM merger becoming more intense late last week, the next big question mark pertains to what happens to Sun's vast product line, which has hardware and software that overlaps with a lot of IBM's own product lines. Observers -- including a former Sun employee, a former software developer for the Sun platforms, and the founder of the Ruby on Rails Web framework -- maintain varying perspectives on what to expect and offer degrees of both optimism and pessimism about the whole endeavor.