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New developer tools boost Google Assistant’s capabilities

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Google has launched new tools for developers which are designed to boost Assistant’s capabilities when responding to user requests. The virtual assistant is regularly found to handle general queries better than its closest competitors, but too often you can think it would just be quicker to do a task yourself. We’re still far off from the sci-fi visions of AI assistants like HAL and JARVIS. Google Assistant, and its rivals, have made large strides in improving areas such as natural language recognition and the ability to somewhat hold a conversation – especially to ask for clarifications – but some work is going to have to come from third-party developers. Three major new features are being launched by Google for developers: Web-based console Updated APIs Home Storage Continuous Match Smart display AMP The web-based console provides an Actions builder to simplify development for Assistant. Developers can use the online IDE to build, test, and deploy all from the sa...

Microsoft and GitHub Strengthen Their Hold on Open Source

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GitHub, home to about 100 million code "repositories," is buying NPM, which makes tools widely used by JavaScript developers. MICROSOFT  will soon control more of the open source software development ecosystem. GitHub , which Microsoft bought in 2018, said Monday that it will acquire NPM, which offers a crucial service for JavaScript developers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. GitHub is the most popular place to host  open source  software on the web and is home to around 100 million code “repositories.” NPM, short for "node package manager," hosts packages written for the popular JavaScript programming platform Node, and provides tools for managing those packages. According to a  blog post  from NPM cofounder Isaac Schlueter, the company hosts 1.3 million packages, which are downloaded 75 billion times per month. The company's website says customers include  Slack ,  Netflix , Visa, and Nike. The companies are important becau...

When your business needs a website redesign?

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Maximum enterprise proprietors are exceptional in their services and products. Cultivating top-notch customer support and services is one of the most important approaches you could stand out from a competitor.  The same issue goes with your company website. What do you need clients to study your business? As a business owner, you need to make certain key facts that can be observed directly at the pages of your internet website?  A business website must be  – informative, clean to navigate and easy UI to users. Every business needs to have an online presence with a website For small businesses and startups, there are many less expensive design options to enhance their website.  There are many internet designers and freelancers are in the world, all you need to do is find the right one, among all those  agileHorde Technologies , is the leading  website design company . If your website is not bringing inside engagements and conversions to your b...

Top Benefits Of Yii Development & Their Future

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Yii stands for ‘Yes It Is’ is one of the most demanded frameworks currently. It is a PHP based, Object-oriented MVC framework that supports the rapid development process in web development. YII applications are seen in developing web portal apps, and it also helps in developing secure websites. In the year 2008, YII was developed by Prado for making a rapid or protected web framework that allows the development of web 2.0 services. Soon after its discovery, it had some issues, but on 3 rd  December 2008, it is proven to deliver impressive web performance, debug catching, security attention, and impressive web features What is PHP Framework? PHP is a widely-used programming language that enables to develop massive web applications. There are sufficient PHP  frameworks  in this modernized world to satisfy the web developers, who are most demanding nowadays. PHP webframeworks can help promote the (RAD) Rapid Application development, which reduces the cost and tim...

Health and fitness app downloads jumped 47% in Q2 as COVID-19 spread

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Now is a great time to be a health and fitness app developer with the category witnessing 47 percent growth in Q2 2020 over the previous year. Research from  Sensor Tower  found downloads increased dramatically over the months when COVID-19 was spreading the fastest. As a virus which predominantly affects the respiratory system, it’s clear that people have been trying to get their health regimes in order. Part of the reason for the increase in demand will also be due to lock-downs causing the closure of gyms. As an area where viruses are likely to breed, it could be some time before gyms fully reopen in many locations. Around 656 million health and fitness apps were downloaded in Q2 2020 – significantly more than the first quarter. In their report, Sensor Tower wrote: “This represents the largest Y/Y increase ever for Q2 and comes amid the global COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns that have kept consumers at home, rethinking their lifestyle and exercise regimes...

Bake better, faster web apps (A simplistic approach to building better, faster, web apps) - Flour.js

Building a modern web application in today's world means JavaScript. There are unlimited ways to structure your JavaScript but generally speaking, without an application framework, things tend to get unmanageable very quick. Flour.js offers a simple structure to help you organise your application into modules and built in patterns so you repeat yourself less. Flour.js is a tiny JavaScript application framework designed to work in existing sites or as a standalone, one page application framework. Read more:  http://flourjs.com/overview

The New App Dev CRM Model

CRM is an industry that's been full of turning points, and we think it is at another. There have been many smaller turns, like the additions of analytics, social media and process flows. However, to get a sense of this point in time, I think you have to go all the way back to the turn of the century and the rise of cloud computing. The cloud was important as an economic marker in ways that other turning points were not. When software as a service emerged, it represented a long overdue initiation of a commoditization wave in the whole technology market, and CRM was the test case. Software largely was unaffected by the first cloud wave. Sure, the cost of goods collapsed as we went to multitenant architectures, but the cost of hardware, middleware and labor largely bore the brunt of that transition. Today, a startup can access the same level of software sophistication -- and with it business process intricacy -- that much larger competitors can, with the result that in industr...