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SD Times news digest: Progress’ DataDirect Autonomous REST Connector, MariaDB Platform X3, and FoundationDB’s Record Layer

Progress has announced the release of Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST Connector. The new solution enables teams to build connectors for applications quickly without needing to write custom code. According to Progress, the Data Direct Autonomous REST Connector allows developers to fully access data from SQL-based applications.

Creating Native Mobile Apps Without Writing Native Code

Native programming can strike fear into the heart of anyone that doesn't know how to write it. While we as programmers understand our limits and capabilities, we still like to brag about the complicated function or route we just wrote. But just drop the words "Objective C, or Android Java" into the next conversation you have with fellow programmers and see who starts biting their nails.

Next Generation Low Code Platforms Snub Citizen Developers

As businesses trend more toward buy-not-build solutions, they look to development platforms that can offer frictionless delivery of applications without needing to provide additional training for developers. Therefore, it is important to differentiate between the high-productivity/low-code approaches and the 'citizen developer' approach: one is for dev professionals looking to operate more efficiently, and the other is, essentially, an amateur programmer creating simple applications – not ideal for professional IT delivery.

JavaScript Has Come a Long Way and Shows No Sign of Slowing

Since its release more than 20 years ago, JavaScript has gone through a lot. But even though it has come so far, the language continues to grow and evolve, and interest in using it is still rising. JavaScript is an incredibly approachable language, which probably has something to do with why it has become so popular among developers. Its robust community continues to add to JavaScript’s rich ecosystem of libraries and frameworks.

The Future is Now: Reducing Patient No-Shows with AI and ML

The Mark Twain quip — “Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow.” — might be an irreverent, tongue-in-check approach to how some healthcare executives chose to purchase and adopt information technology. For many healthcare executives, the day after tomorrow has arrived.

Software Predictions for 2019

Thought leaders weigh in on what we can expect from the software development industry in 2019.

Trend-Setting Products in Data and Information Management for 2019

You can call it the new oil, or even the new electricity, but however it is described, it’s clear that data is now recognized as an essential fuel flowing through organizations and enabling never before seen opportunities. However, data cannot simply be collected; it must be handled with care in order to fulfill the promise of faster, smarter decision making.

Building the Predictive Maintenance 4.0 Era with Cognitive-First Models

Predictive maintenance has come a long way since the ’90s. Over the past decade, IIoT and the evolution of analyzing sensor information has pushed organizations to look at new ways to use data to understand machine health.

Microsoft Doubles Down on Open Source .NET

Microsoft is open sourcing some of the most popular Windows-centric .NET Framework components, particularly Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Forms and Windows UI XAML Library (WinUI).

Blockchain, Internet Of Things, And Artificial Intelligence Battle Hype At Expo

For those Silicon Valleyites weary of traveling to Las Vegas for re:Invent, Encore Media Group brought its Blockchain Expo/IoT Expo/AI Expo combo conference to Santa Clara this week.

The combination of three of the most hyped topics in technology today provided a rare opportunity to compare the progress vendors have been making cutting through the noise to bring real solutions to the market.

Low-code and Serverless -- Like Fire and Ice?

Demand for enterprise applications is on the rise, with many IT departments staring down the barrel of a massive app backlog that they can’t possibly work through fast enough. And so, the gauntlet has been thrown — IT needs to rethink its approach to app dev to increase the speed of delivery. Enter two unique solutions to this problem: low-code and serverless.

Progress Named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Web Content Management

Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application development and digital experience technologies, today announced that it has been named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Web Content Management (WCM). Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice selections are based on recognitions of vendors submitted by verified end-user professionals. Criteria also considers both the number of reviews and the overall user ratings.

Digital Technologies: Creating New Care Modalities for Diabetes Management

Globally, health systems are facing a triple threat: increasing demands on clinical resources; decreased government spending on healthcare; and a movement toward value-based care.  The Darwinian petri dish of economic health policy change will be perceived by some health systems as formidable challenges, but others will embrace these economic health policy shifts as opportunities for reinvention and innovation. In short, those who embrace change, will thrive.

Is the Patient In? Using Automated, Mobile Apps to Reduce Patient No-Shows

Even with advances in IT, curbing patient no-shows has amounted to healthcare practitioners being busy doing something, but slightly different than the day before.

It is estimated that in 2015, no-shows, on average, cost a single provider nearly $150,000. When you factor for inflation, that same provider, in 2018, would be losing closer to $160,000 in revenue. Text messages and phone calls are ubiquitous, and mining structured and unstructured data from these patient-provider interactions is rarely seamless. More often than not, it is a costly Sisyphean effort that does not lead to actionable, proactive practice changes that can reduce patient no-shows.

The Chief Technology Officer: The 'Ultimate Integrator at Any Company'

Dmitri Tcherevik, CTO at Progress, is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and run two successful technology start-ups — most recently MightyMeeting, a cloud-based mobile collaboration platform.

Angular 7 Highlights, Improvements, and Gotchas

Google recently announced its new Angular 7, which has been noted as a major release spanning the entire platform, including the core framework, Angular Material, and the CLI with synchronized major versions. These benefits along with more, such as CDK virtual scrolling capabilities and drag & drop feature, have developers excited to dive in. Carl Bergenhem, a Product Manager at Progress, digs deeper into the highlights and impacts of the update.

Are We Witnessing the Death of Websites?

For the past decade, websites have sat at the core of any business’ digital footprint as the primary source of knowledge and customer experience. The rapid increase in the volume and diversity of connected devices and user interfaces, from wearables to chatbots, means that users can access information across various channels and move between different devices seamlessly. In doing this, they expect the same high-quality and secure experience at all times.

What’s New in NativeScript 5.0

NativeScript, a framework for native mobile application development leveraging JavaScript technologies, now has Version 5.0 available. 

Featuring a set of cross-platform abstractions and runtimes, the open source NativeScript lets you  develop native mobile apps with JavaScript, TypeScript, or Angular. A NativeScript runtime translates between JavaScript, TypeScript, and Angular and the native APIs in Apple iOS and Google Android, letting developers write an application just once to support both platforms. 

Progress NativeScript 5.0: Hot Modules & Playground’ Code Samples

New England headquartered Progress has announced the latest release of NativeScript, an open source framework for building native mobile apps with Angular, Vue.js, TypeScript and JavaScript.

7 Hot Web Trends for 2019

Predicting coming web design trends is always tricky. Get it right and you are praised for being ahead of the curve; get it wrong and you are met with a flood of I-told-you-sos. That said, I'm going to push my luck to see if I can provide some insight into the trends that will define web design in 2019 and beyond.