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| Compiled code running at near-native speeds in the browser is getting the .NET touch. MLenny / Getty Images It’s not hard to see why Microsoft is investing in WebAssembly. It’s a technology that scratches many different itches. It delivers apps to users, adds rich user interfaces to web applications, and even provides a way to manage and update edge devices. By building on widely distributed web technologies and supporting familiar programming languages, it’s a wa...

ORNGE Has a New Colour Scheme The ORNGE helicopter fleet is getting a new livery. That should reduce maintenance by hiding the exhaust staining more effectively. Premium Member Ah so the real reason they are getting painted is to maintain the integrity of the hull and reduce drag and it sounds like the original paint was not very good quality and the particulate from the exhaust was fusing to it. (Is this more legacy from the Ornge scandal, cheap paint for more kickbacks?) I didnt mind the ora...

SEE: (TechRepublic Premium) Over the past year, Objective-C has slowly but surely dropped on that list. Tiobe theorized that Objective-C remained popular in part because Swift adoption slowed as mobile app developers turned to languages that could be used for building apps on multiple platforms.  Swift meanwhile has fallen to 15th position on Tiobes index today, down from 11th spot in April 2020.   Another notable change is the re-emergence of Fortran in the index at 20th position, up fro...

Thinkstock PeachPie, a project to support the PHP language natively on the .NET runtime, is now available in a 1.0.0 release, with a slew of features—including IDE support—aimed at getting developers on board. Originally announced in 2016, PeachPie is intended to be not only a runtime for PHP on .NET, but a full development platform. It allows a legacy PHP codebase to be migrated incrementally, with two-way interaction between the PHP and .NET worlds. Many, but not all, PHP ...

(TechRepublic Premium) But despite a security update being available to protect against the vulnerability for over three years, its still the most frequent exploit used by cyber criminals to deliver malware via malicious Microsoft Office documents. "The enduring popularity of Equation Editor exploits such as CVE-2017-11882 may be due to home users and businesses not updating to newer, patched versions of Office. We commonly see this vulnerability being exploited by attackers who distribute easi...

Why Java Is so Young After 25 Years: An Architect’s Point of View Java completes 25 years of programming life and remains closer to developers minds; almost 69% of the worldwide developer community remains to code in Java, even now. by Join the DZone community and get the full member experience.Join For Free Java completes 25 years of programming life and remains closer to developers minds; almost 69% of the worldwide developer community remains to code in Java, even now. Oracle recently rel...

Developers adopting latest and greatest will have to tangle with XAML Tim Anderson Mon 15 Mar 2021 // 17:45 UTC Share Copy Microsoft has released its second preview of .NET 6, but confirmed there will be no visual designer for WinUI 3.0 when it comes out in November this year. WinUI 3.0 is intended to be the primary official framework for Windows desktop applications. Microsofts .NET 6 is the first long-term release of its revamped development platform for running C#, F#...

Solving crisis through authentic leadership The Covid-19 pandemic, and the devastation it has wrought, has led to an acute crisis of leadership. One way to counter this is to evolve the notion of authentic leadership. What is it? Read on. Image: Illustration by Anirban Ghosh The global crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges, uncertainties, and demands on leadership. There is no known and proven framework to be resilient and lead during these uncertain times...

Kaveri online system hit by software, hardware issues Updated: Updated: March 13, 2021 23:04 IST This has resulted in frequent technical issues across sub-registrar offices; registration of properties in State affected Share Article AAA The system, which was once showcased as the government’s IT initiative success in land registration, is now ailing.   This has resulted in frequent technical issues across sub-registrar offices; registration of properties in State affected Over the last coup...

  Years ago, while finishing my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, I started my internship at the biggest newspaper in Colombia. That is when I started coding for a living. Far from my dreams of using the latest technology, my first lines of code in a professional environment were written with Visual Basic 6.0 and Microsoft’s SQL Server. All our users were internal, so I could sit with them, understand their issues while using the application and give them a new version of the applicat...