Development News, Features, and Interviews

• Atlassian adds postmortem feature to JiraOps

  Atlassian wants to make it easier for IT teams to better understand their responses to major software outages and keep track of lessons learned.

• Salesforce releases JavaScript-friendly Lightning to bypass Aura’s limits

  Lightning Web Components is a programming model to ease JavaScript coding on the Lightning Platform

• Java 12 could axe raw string literals

  The beta capability won’t be ready in time for the March 2019 upgrade

• Amazon now has its own version of Java: Corretto

  The Corretto 8 beta is now available, though its initial feature set is several years old

• Rust language is too hard to learn and use, says user survey

  A survey of Rust users finds difficulty and frustration with the language’s highly touted features for memory safety and correctness

• Java proposal would spot data races with a thread sanitizer

  The effort would explore possibilities for integrating HotSpot and the JVM tool interface with performance monitoring and analysis

• First Houdini APIs for CSS layout debut

  The W3C effort is meant to give developers more control over how a web page looks

• What is the MEAN stack? JavaScript web applications

  The web application stack powered by MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js leverages JavaScript from top to bottom

• Google investigates faster, more-private webpage transitions

  The Chrome team works on specs for fast loading and multipage sites

• How to successfully embark on a DevOps journey

  Many Australian and New Zealand companies have a keen interest in DevOps - some have very advanced DevOps cultures, while others are just beginning to see how it can be beneficial to their work.

• Visual Studio Code’s Python add-on tries out data science

  Data exploration and machine learning models are enabled via a Python language extension

• Java SE’s OpenJDK could be headed to GitHub

  Developers could see more automation if the project moves from Oracle’s Mercurial server

• So long, JCP: Eclipse has a new Java spec process in mind

  The Eclipse Foundation seeks an open source, lightweight, code-first approach to evolving enterprise Java

• WebAssembly, JavaScript links get faster in Firefox

  The Firefox Nightly beta makes these calls run faster than non-in-lined JavaScript-to-JavaScript function calls

• How 2400 sensors and machine learning models keep Sydney Harbour Bridge spanning the decades

  The crew that maintains the Sydney Harbour Bridge speaks about the 52,800 tonne steel structure with deep affection.

• Open Banking a catalyst for innovation to the brave in banking

  The Australian financial services sector is in the midst of the most dramatic period of change since the deregulation of banking in the 1980s.

• PyTorch 1.0 accelerates Python machine learning with native code

  The PyTorch 1.0 release candidate introduces Torch Script, a Python subset that can be JIT-compiled into C++ or other high-speed code

• Nuitka Python-to-C compiler readies big performance gains

  Nuitka 0.6 lays the groundwork for major code optimizations — and faster and more portable Python applications

• Meet Wasmjit, your future embeddable WebAssembly runtime

  Wasmjit, now a proof of concept in beta, is intended to be a Linux kernel module

• Eclipse takes over all Java EE reference components

  Oracle has contributed 100 percent of Java EE and GlassFish application server components to the foundation

Will the new Surface Go impress?

​With the success of Microsoft’s Surface Pro, it’s easy to assume the new Surface Go will be just as big a hit.