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How to Create a UI That's Both Robust and User Friendly
The key challenge in building UIs is balancing ease of use and maintainability, with scale and complexity. It requires thoughtful component design and an understanding of common usage paths to create a UI that's both robust and user-friendly. Automation can be a game-changer when it comes to improving efficiency and consistency in your codebase.
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Google Compute Engine Future Reservations in Public Preview
Google recently introduced a new future reservation feature in public preview for its Compute Engine, allowing users to request compute capacity for a future date.
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Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2: Productivity, C++ Enhancements, and Debugging Improvements
Microsoft has released the second preview of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8. Preview 2 brings a range of improvements and features aimed at enhancing developer productivity and code debugging as well as some additional C++ and Game Dev enhancements. The latest version is available for download, and developers have the opportunity to explore and utilise its advancements in the preview version.
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AI a “Must-Have” in GitLab’s 2023 Global DevSecOps Report
GitLab has released their 2023 Global DevSecOps AI report, with the key finding that AI and ML use is evolving from a "nice-to-have" to a "must-have". The report shows that 23% of organizations are already using AI in software development, and of those, 60% are using it daily. Furthermore, 65% of respondents said they are using AI and ML for testing now, or would be within the next three years.
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GitHub Dependabot Gets Customizable Auto-Triage Rules to Reduce False Positives
After launching Dependabot's auto-dismiss policies a few months ago to reduce the number of false positive alerts, GitHub is now adding custom rules support for developers to define the criteria to auto-dismiss and reopen alerts.
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Java 21, the Next LTS Release, Delivers Virtual Threads, Record Patterns and Pattern Matching
Oracle has released version 21 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first release offering long-term support since JDK 17 in 2021, the final feature set includes 15 JEPs. Three of these - Virtual Threads, Record Patterns and Pattern Matching for switch - have completed their respective rounds of previews and are now finalized.
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Meta Open-Sources Multilingual Translation Foundation Model SeamlessM4T
Meta recently open-sourced Massively Multilingual & Multimodal Machine Translation (SeamlessM4T), a multilingual translation AI that can translate both speech audio and text data across nearly 100 languages. SeamlessM4T is trained on 1 million hours of audio data and outperforms the current state-of-the-art speech-to-text translation model.
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SharePoint Framework 1.18 Refreshes Viva Connections Cards and Supports Node 18
Microsoft recently released version 1.18 of SharePoint Framework with several updates, focused on Viva Connections' components feature updates but also bringing updates for some long-standing dependencies.
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Java News Roundup: JCP 25th Anniversary, Foreign Function & Memory API, Eclipse Epicyro
This week's Java roundup for September 11th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JCP, JDK 22, JDK 21, Payara Platform, Eclipse Epicyro, Grails Plugin Portal and milestone and point releases for: Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Tools, Quarkus, Micronaut, Helidon, MicroProfile Telemetry, Groovy, Camel Quarkus, Micrometer Metrics and Tracing, Piranha, JobRunr, JHipster Lite and Project Reactor.
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Reddit Adopts Server-Driven UI for Its New Feed Architecture across Mobile Apps
Reddit reworked its feeds functionality in the iOS mobile app and introduced it to the Android app. In both cases, they used the Server-Driven UI (SDUI) as their communication approach, which allows localized content layout changes without mobile app releases.
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JCP EC Industry Experts Reveal Their Favorite JDK 21 Feature at Special Oracle Event in NYC
At a special event hosted by the New York Java Special Interest Group and Garden State Java User Group at BNY Mellon in New York City, industry experts from the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee participated in a panel discussion to reveal their favorite features from the upcoming release of JDK 21. Included in the festivities was a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the JCP.
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Go 1.21 Toolchain is Now Reproducible to Help Safeguard from Supply-Chain Attacks
Go 1.21 toolchain is the first Go toolchain to be perfectly reproducible. This makes it possible to reduce the risk that a malicious actor can tamper with the output binaries, explains Google engineer Russ Cox, to carry through a supply chain attack.
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.NET MAUI in .NET 8 RC 1: Quality Improvements and Xcode 15 Beta Support
Microsoft has recently released the first Release Candidate version of the .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) framework in the .NET 8 roadmap. As reported, this release candidate version is focused on code quality, various UI improvements, and performance optimizations and it comes with Xcode 15 beta support for Apple SDKs.
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RustRover is a New Standalone IDE for Rust from JetBrains
JetBrains has announced its new standalone Rust IDE, RustRover, which is now accessible under an early access program and will bring Rust support on a par with other languages supported by JetBrains IDE, says the company.
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Windows Community Toolkit 8.0.0 Simplifies Code Portability on Windows Platform
Microsoft released version 8.0.0 of the Windows Community Toolkit in September 2023. The updated version unifies the namespaces for both WinUI 3 and UWP code, simplifying the code portability for developers.