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This week marks National Coding Week, an initiative created to celebrate coding and highlight its importance in the modern world of work. The skills gap in the tech industry continues to be an issue. According to a recent European Commission...
Version Control Keeping track of code changes – what has changed, by whom and when – is absolutely necessary for quality assurance and to ensure the software behaves as expected and delivers the correct results. Tools to assist developers in...
Intel is working on an exciting One API project. The project addresses the complexities introduced by the diverse nature of APIs deployed across multiple hardware architectures – the latter being something Intel knows a lot about! But, there is something...
The upcoming release of ExtWebComponents will enable developers to integrate 115 pre-built Sencha UI components into your web application, regardless of whether there is a framework built or not. To get up to speed on the highly awaited features, check...
Data access methods have changed over the years as applications and the data environment they interact with have increased in complexity. Applications which used to connect to a single relational database are being replaced by apps which quite likely depend...
Through their Early Access Program, Sencha has shared their upcoming Ext JS 7.0 update with their developers. This new update has an emphasis on enhancing the Modern Toolkit components. Updates include: Form Group – to easily group check boxes and...
During the first week of July, Grey Matter had the pleasure of running two workshops with Intel Software, their partner Bayncore, and Microsoft. These workshops took place in Dublin at the Microsoft Offices and in London at the Microsoft Reactor...
Climate change is affecting the planet, and we’re already starting to see the effects of it. Look at the melting icebergs, these hotter UK summers (though that’s probably one good thing to some), and the effect on wildlife, to name...
When Microsoft first released .NET in 2002, the cloud as we know it today didn’t exist. Back then, the Web was the big thing in IT and the Dot Com boom was in full swing. Consequently, the .NET Framework was...
Installation issues Embarcadero has been experiencing data centre issues that have affected the downloads, registrations and installations of their latest update, RAD Studio 10.3.2. Embarcadero is working around the clock to ensure they get the problems resolved as soon as...
From 1 August 2019, new applications and updates in the Google Play Store must support 64-bit. Embarcadero is working on providing this support in RAD Studio. However, on an app-by-app basis, the Google Play Store team will consider extensions to...
In May 2019 HERE released three Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to simplify the integration of the REST services as Azure functions within an Azure solution. The templates cover the following: Serverless Functions – Deploys HERE location services as Azure functions that...
It can sometimes be difficult to see the impact of business figures and statistics. Rows and columns of data can be hard to follow, digest and analyse within a short frame of time, such as in meetings and business decision...
If you’re new to web app development, or just don’t have the time or resource to focus on granular development, then I suggest you try out Sencha Architect. Sencha Architect enables you to build HTML5 applications using drag-and-drop features, so...
Larry Ellison, Oracle’s often outspoken head, was ridiculed by commentators a decade ago for being dismissive about the cloud. While the reaction wasn’t surprising, my reading of things was more along the lines that Ellison was irritated by the hype....
As more and more data moves into the cloud, and businesses have more and more data sources to get insight from, first business intelligence and now enterprise analytics have been moving into the cloud as well. Where you would once...
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