Deno adds Deno Cron for job scheduling

Deno Land, the developers of the Deno TypeScript/JavaScript runtime, have introduced Deno Cron, a feature the company describes as an easy way to create scheduled jobs. Announced November 29 and available behind the –unstable flag in Deno 1.38, Deno.cron() is a function that takes three parameters: the name of the scheduled job, the schedule, and […]

CSS Graduate Scheme 2023

We prioritise personal and professional development at CSS which is why we’ve launched a Graduate Scheme to ensure new team members can strengthen their existing skills while continuously learning and developing new ones.A few new members have recently joined the team at CSS and they are eager to grow and develop across departments like Business […]

Bootstrapped brilliance: Agriall’s 3-month journey to $4 million

In a stunning display of entrepreneurial prowess, Agriall, a self-funded agritech startup, has set a new benchmark in the industry by achieving a staggering $4 million turnover in just three short months. This remarkable achievement underscores the company’s rapid growth and its commitment to revolutionising the agriculture sector through the use of technology. Founded by […]

Rising C++ closes in on C language

C++ has surpassed Java and may soon eclipse C, according to the Tiobe index of programming language popularity. Cobol is back in the top 20. C++, having already overtaken Java in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, soon could overtake the C language, too. Also rising in the index were JavaScript and Cobol. In […]

How we built it: Ask Dash – A generative AI Flutter application

As part of the Google Cloud Applied AI Summit, the Flutter and Vertex AI teams collaborated with Very Good Ventures to create an AI-powered Flutter demo app, Ask Dash, using Vertex AI Search and Conversation by Google Cloud. Vertex AI Search and Conversation empowers you to build and deploy search and conversational applications quickly with […]

Get insights into all your Laravel notifications with Paragraphs new package

When Laravel introduced Notification classes back in 2016, it allowed all of us to begin sending any transactional communications to our customers in a very simple, intuitive way. Chances are, by now you got tens of Notification classes in your product and you are sending hundreds or thousands of emails and text messages every single […]

Oracle ClouldWorld Keynote: The Future of Scale-out Data Processing with HeatWave Lakehouse.

Oracle recently announced HeatWave Lakehouse, enabling customers to query data in object storage with record performance vs. Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Databricks, and Google Big Query. Querying the data in object storage is as fast as querying the database, an industry first. With HeatWave Lakehouse, you can now take advantage of HeatWave for non-MySQL workloads as […]

Dev News: A POST/GET Debate, Yarn 4.0, and Node.js Updates

Programmer Matthew Phillips has an “unpopular opinion” that he shared via, where else, the X platform (formally Twitter): “Don’t use http verbs PUT, PATCH, DELETE. Just use POST for everything,” the creator of web framework Astro and Lucy Lang wrote. His reasons for this, in his own words: doesn’t support the others. Frameworks that allow […]

Attackers use abandoned WordPress plugin to backdoor websites

Attackers are using Eval PHP, an outdated legitimate WordPress plugin, to compromise websites by injecting stealthy backdoors. Eval PHP is an old WordPress plugin that allows site admins to embed PHP code on pages and posts of WordPress sites and then execute the code when the page is opened in the browser. The plugin has […]

Researcher hijacks popular Packagist PHP packages to get a job

A researcher hijacked over a dozen Packagist packages, with some having been installed hundreds of millions of times over the course of their lifetime. The researcher reached out to BleepingComputer stating that by hijacking these packages he hopes to get a job. And, he seems pretty confident that this would work. At least 14 Packagist […]