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Stack Overflow enhances ‘Content Health’ to end outdated knowledge

Stack Overflow has enhanced its ‘Content Health’ feature that helps teams identify and correct outdated knowledge.

Content Health is a feature for Stack Overflow for Teams that identifies potentially outdated or inaccurate knowledge content to help ensure workforces can get the right answers to their questions.

Separate research from GitHub recently found that both open-source and enterprise developers benefit from a productivity boost of around 50 percent when...

4 March 2022 | Development Tools

A new IT fabric for speed, diversity, and security

Perspectives on the days, months and years ahead in the new technology fabric driving people, organisations and society at large. Written by Patrick Jean, CTO, OutSystems and Miguel Lopes, VP Platform Strategy at OutSystems.

Technology changes all the time. That’s part of the core dynamism that drives so many of us to embrace its ability to innovate around, through and between many of the challenges of modern life.

As we look forward to the major change factors that...

7 February 2022 | Approaches

Gartner: Why cloud-native platforms will be key for IT leaders in 2022

IT leaders continue to face challenges with their traditional enterprise applications, and this has been exaggerated by the increase in digital initiatives they’re undertaking. Varying from system integration, master database management through to backup software, these applications are critical to the operation of any business. However, these legacy applications often take longer to build, with improvements large and infrequent. Coupled with an increasing move to the public cloud and...

28 January 2022 | Cloud

Open-source can play a critical role in tackling the UK’s developer shortage

It is no secret that developers have never been more in demand. According to a recent analysis, the shortage of “programmers and software development professionals” only ranks behind HGV drivers and nurses as the occupation where worker shortages are most acute in the UK.

The sheer pace of digital transformation across every industry means the demand for developer talent continues to outstrip supply at a rapid rate – and the situation shows no sign of abating. Just about...

25 January 2022 | Git

Why empowering ‘knowledge workers’ is critical to business success

Cultivating a new generation of such knowledge workers is one of the great challenges of the modern era. Today’s knowledge workers are more global, work across more industries and are not always even in the office. Each of them has a different workflow depending on their job, with their own specific ways to leverage their knowledge.

But what are 'knowledge workers' and why is empowering them with the right tools, training and culture critical to drive business...

19 January 2022 | Databases

Will 2022 signal the death of the dashboard?

The UK is seen as a global leader in the driving and adoption of business intelligence and, traditionally, dashboards have been seen as the ‘holy grail’ of data visualisation. However, that sheen is slowly disappearing with organisations tired of spending time learning how to use technically complex programs and having staff spend the time deciphering what’s presented in a standalone dashboard instead of focusing on important business decisions.

Why standalone...

15 December 2021 | Developer

Why software developers are the unsung heroes

To say everybody faced challenges during the pandemic would be an understatement, and software developers were no different. Not only did development teams have to ensure they could fulfil their duties remotely with minimal disruption, but the mass shift to online services caused by national lockdowns had developers working at full capacity.

This raises the question: how attuned is the C-suite to the plight of developers? And just how instrumental have development teams been to...

24 November 2021 | Developer

Stack Overflow enhances Microsoft Teams integration as hybrid working here to stay

Stack Overflow has announced enhanced integration with Microsoft Teams the same week a ‘Future of Work’ report highlights that hybrid working is here to stay.

Over the past six months alone, Stack Overflow says that it’s seen a 137 percent increase in Microsoft Teams usage among its Enterprise customers. With clear benefits and the future still uncertain, many businesses are increasing their support for hybrid working rather than roll back the progress they’ve made over...

4 November 2021 | Development Tools

65% of companies are concerned about the wellbeing of developers

Research conducted by Forrester Consulting has found that a majority of companies are concerned about the wellbeing of developers.

The research, commissioned by The Qt Company, also highlighted that 75 percent of connected device manufacturers are finding the demand for skills is outstripping supply.

“All too often native development for individual chipsets leads to isolated pockets of skills that are hard to transfer to new platforms,” said Marko Kaasila, SVP of...