Development Tools

The 7 best wireframing and prototyping tools for app makers

GitHub Enterprise users get project management, data access improvements

New capabilities include the GraphQL API, project boards, and API rate limiting

What’s the Go language really good for?

Learn the strengths, weaknesses, use cases, and future directions of Google's hit programming language

How APIs can break up your company’s ball of mud

With Collision Conference at a close, check out my conversation on stage with Steve Rosenbush on the value of the API economy.

Microsoft brings scalable Git to Visual Studio in improved GVFS

The Atlassian SourceTree IDE client also now supports GVFS, and others may join in

Microsoft devs: How to create apps for alien platforms

The integration of Xamarin tools into Visual Studio, plus new tools for cross-platform testing, have transformed the Windows-only Microsoft IDE into a universal tool

How Google’s cloud is ushering in a new era of SQL databases

Google Spanner is a NewSQL database

Oracle has a plan to make Java 9 migration easier

Temporarily permitting illegal reflective access from code on the class path could support a more relaxed migration to the modular Java platform

Atom editor now has native GitHub integration

The direct integration with the code-hosting platform to make things easier for devs -- but also ties them more closely to GitHub

Oracle’s Java chief debunks ‘misconceptions’ about Java 9

A top misconception is that the Maven build system will not work with Java 9