10Feb 2017 by richard@baronsoftware.com

2017 STATE OF GLOBAL TECH SALARIES

Software Events
2017 STATE OF GLOBAL TECH SALARIES For the second year in a row, Hired has tapped into its data to reveal insights into technology workers’ salaries and the hiring market more generally. Because Hired facilitates the job searching process from the initial interview request all the way to the final job offer, we have unprecedented visibility into salaries across a variety of positions and companies. Most of the tools available to companies and job seekers are flawed and inaccurate. Salary calculators don’t account for company size, years of candidate experience or location, while many job sites are based on anonymous, self-reported data which can vary widely in accuracy. Hired’s data, on the other hand, is based on actual job offers made to real people. This second edition of Global State…
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10Feb 2017 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Ubuntu Heads List of Top Linux Servers in the Enterprise

Software development Concepts, Software Events
Ubuntu Heads List of Top Linux Servers in the Enterprise   ServerWatch has published a list of the top 10 Linux server distributions for 2017, with Ubuntu at the top. As the site said, that's no new distinction for Ubuntu. "At the top of almost every Linux-related list, the Debian-based Ubuntu is in a class by itself." ServerWatch said in its ranking report, published earlier this month. "Canonical's Ubuntu surpasses all other Linux server distributions -- from its simple installation to its excellent hardware discovery to its world-class commercial support, Ubuntu sets a strong standard that is hard to match." The complete top 10 list is: Ubuntu Red Hat Enterprise Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server CentOS Debian Oracle Linux Mageia/Mandriva ClearOS Arch Linux Slackware At the top of almost every…
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28Jan 2017 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Twitter sells Fabric software to Google

Software Events
Twitter sells Fabric developer software platform to Google Fabric, Twitter's developer platform, now belongs to Google. The move was announced on Fabric's blog back on January 19th as well as being confirmed in a Twitter thread by Sr. Director of Product, Jeff Seibert. Acquired by Twitter in 2014, Fabric is a "a modular mobile platform" designed to help app developers improve the " stability, distribution, revenue and identity" of their products. Everything from the ability to natively embed tweets in other apps to signing in with your Twitter credentials were made possible by Fabric. Fabric will merge with Google's Firebase development platform. "We quickly realized that our missions are the same - helping mobile teams build better apps, understand their users, and grow their businesses," the Fabric team wrote in its…
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14Oct 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Look ahead with Embarcadero and Delphi

Software Events
Look ahead with Embarcadero and Delphi Embarcadero is hosting a webinar for customers that are on update subscriptions only concerning the next update as well as the anticipated release of Godzilla which will contain the ability to build Linux server applications with a single code base.   Finally Embarcadero is heading in the right direction by giving a privileged webinar for yearly paying customers.  The webinar will discuss the next update release for Berlin which is release update 2.  The biggest piece is about Godzilla which a lot of developers have been wanting for the past few years. What Berlin Update 2 have ? Windows Desktop Bridge Integration Windows 10 VCL Calendar Control “Quick Edits” IDE enhancement C++ Refactoring and Compiler flags Enhanced - Latest Platform Support Enhanced - VCL and FMX Styles…
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12Oct 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Rave Reports for Delphi Business Review

Rad Studio Delphi Development
Rave Reports for Delphi Business Review Recently the decision was made to review Rave Reports by Nevrona to make a decision whether it would fit any type of long term application development.  The process took a little time to review the capabilities of what Rave Reports could do for any end user when compared to other report generators such as Fast Reports, Quick Reports or Report Builder. The final decision was to stay with Fast Reports due to the reasons listed below.  Rave Report does have some merit on why they could be your solution but after a very careful review it fell behind in quite a few necessary things.  These can be fixed but the current setting it seems that Nevrona will not implement any of them. Reasons for not using…
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