OpenSilver 3.1 brings XAML designer for VS Code
OpenSilver 3.1, the latest version of Userware’s open-source framework for cross-platform .NET development, has arrived with what the company calls the first-ever drag-and-drop XAML designer for Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor. Announced Dec...
The makers and takers of WordPress
The idea of open-source software seems kind of nuts. Millions (billions?) of lines of code doing all kinds of amazing things and available for free? That sounds too good to be true. But it is true. Between me writing this article and you reading it ...
Go eclipses Node.js in web API requests, Cloudflare reports
Go has surpassed Node.js as the most popular language used for making automated API requests, according to cloud provider Cloudflare’s annual review of internet trends. More than half of the internet traffic seen by Cloudflare is API-related, and mu...
Next.js 15.1
Next.js 15.1 introduces React 19 stable support, improved error debugging, new experimental authorization APIs, and more.
How to build better AI chatbots
At Campfire, we launched a consumer AI chat product called Cozy Friends on Steam and mobile on October 12. Imagine Animal Crossing or The Sims with AI agents. In the first 30 days, users exchanged more than 1.7M messages with our AI agents. This beat...
5G never delivered for cloud computing
I recall this as if it was yesterday. I entered the conference room to talk about cloud computing and 5G. I gave this type of presentation often a few years ago. The executives were excited about 5G’s potential. I took a deep breath, knowing I had t...
Python a shoo-in for Tiobe language of the year
High-flying Python is expected to win the Tiobe programming language of the year designation for 2024, as the language with the biggest ratings increase in Tiobe’s language popularity index during the year. Python also ranks as the most popular prog...
Why business teams must stay out of application development
In the last 10 years of building WaveMaker, the one thing we always hear are user expectations that low code will miraculously allow business users to develop feature-rich applications. Well, it can, but it most certainly shouldn’t. I’ll tell you ...
Surveying the LLM application framework landscape
Large language models by themselves are less than meets the eye; the moniker “stochastic parrots” isn’t wrong. Connect LLMs to specific data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and you get a more reliable system, one that is much less likel...
Why AI coding assistants are best for experienced developers
Generative AI has hit the mainstream with software developers. According to a recent GitHub survey, more than one million developers actively use GitHub Copilot. More importantly, these developers increasingly use AI as “a new building block in deve...
Clarifai previews AI compute orchestration
AI platform provider Clarifai is publicly previewing compute orchestration for AI workloads that the company says works across any AI model on any compute, at any scale. Clarifai said its vendor-agnostic platform could build and orchestrate AI workloa...
OpenAI releases o1 LLM, unveils ChatGPT Pro
OpenAI has officially released its OpenAI o1 large language model (LLM), built for complex reasoning. The company also introduced ChatGPT Pro, a $200 monthly plan that includes unlimited access to OpenAI o1, o1-mini, GPT-4o, and advanced voice convers...
What is TypeScript? Strongly typed JavaScript
Originally developed by Microsoft as a way to adapt JavaScript as a tool to build enterprise-scale applications, TypeScript has become a widely popular programming language that combines JavaScript syntax with strong typing and object-oriented program...
Public cloud providers are fumbling the AI opportunity
Generative AI is exploding and will continue to do so. As such, both on-premises and public cloud providers have seen a boom in demand for their AI wares, which will likely continue for at least the next five years. Cloud is, of course, a core benefit...
OpenAI unveils API for tracking OpenAI API usage, costs
OpenAI has introduced the Usage API, an API that allows enterprises to track their activity across the OpenAI API. With the Usage API, OpenAI API usage and costs can be assessed programmatically, the company said. Announced December 4, the OpenAI U...
Google introduces PaliGemma 2 vision-language AI models
Google has introduced a new family of PaliGemma vision-language models, offering scalable performance, long captioning, and support for specialized tasks. PaliGemma 2 was announced December 5, nearly seven months after the initial version launched as ...
Get started with Azure AI Content Understanding
Modern AI is about a lot more than chatbots, as shown by Microsoft’s Ignite 2024 pivot to using its stable of large and small language models to power autonomous agents. Much of its focus was on using productivity tools and software-generated events...
