PROGRAMMING & SCRIPTING
JAVASCRIPT: The Solo JavaScript Developer Challenging Google and Facebook. Google’s Angular and Facebook’s React are the two most popular frameworks for building applications with JavaScript, the standard language for writing code that runs in your browser, as opposed to on a company’s server. But a growing number of developers are flocking to Vue, a JavaScript framework developed by independent programmer Evan You and funded by donations from individual users and sponsorships from small companies. At the end of 2017, Vue was tied for third-most-downloaded JavaScript framework with the more established Ember, behind Facebook’s React and Google’s Angular, according to data compiled by the startup NPM, which offers tools for installing and managing packages of JavaScript code. Read more
[WIRED.COM]
CETTIA: A Java Server for Building Real-Time Web Apps. Solve tricky problems with WebSocket, JSON and switch statements with Cettia, a full-featured web app framework for Java that allows developers to exchange events between the server and client in real-time. Read more
[JAXENTER.COM]
JDK 12 ROADMAP: Java 12 Gets First Targeted Features. Switch expressions capability would improve coding, allow pattern matching; raw string literals would simplify multiline expressions. Read more
[INFOWORLD.COM]
C# 8: Async Streams in C# 8. C# 8 adds Async Streams, which allows an async method to return multiple values broadening its usability. Async streams are an alternative to the reactive programming model used in Java and JavaScript. Read more
[INFOQ.COM]
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IT SECURITY SUPPORT: Blue Mountain Data Systems is actively involved in implementing FISMA and NIST standards with Federal Civilian Agencies. Due to our extensive experience in this area, Blue Mountain has developed processes and organizational techniques to help ensure security deliverables are completed on time, and performed in the most efficient manner possible. We ensure that NIST-800-53 control requirements are treated consistently during definition, analysis, implementation, auditing, and reporting phases of a system. Find out more about Blue Mountain Data Systems IT Security Support Services. Call us at 703-502-3416.
BLUE MOUNTAIN DATA SYSTEMS HAS THE EXPERIENCE: 1994 to Present – U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration. Responsible to the Office of Technology and Information Systems for information systems architecture, planning, applications development, networking, administration and IT security, supporting the enforcement of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act — ERISA. Within the EBSA, Blue Mountain is responsible for design, development and support for its various enforcement database management systems, as well as all case tracking and customer service inquiry systems. Blue Mountain also provides IT security services to the EBSA, in the form of FISMA Assessment and Authorization, System Security Plans, Risk and vulnerability assessments, monitoring and investigation support. Read more.
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