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First look: GitHub's desktop client for Mac and Windows provides a GUI for dealing with commits, branches, and basic Git repository work, but not issues or other GitHub-specific functions
The Facebook-owned cloud platform for mobile apps will first offer kits for Apple and Android, with JavaScript, PHP, and others to follow
Odds are, your new Hadoop or Spark project fits into one of seven common types
MongoDB zeroes in on operations with pluggable storage engines and revamped management tools
New tools allow Microsoft's functional language to work better with Visual Studio
Developers still value Apple's now-legacy language for iOS and Mac app dev, and the transition Swift will be gradual
Some of GitHub's best new features could be third-party apps
The UI-tweaking apps for GitHub will come from third parties like ZenHub -- and GitHub is fine with that
Last year's Java 8 release boosted the aging language, helping it open up a big lead over C
The upgraded tools feature tree view, component-searching, and a defined API for working with internals