Category Archives: Tech News
Google Earth Pro is now free
Google has announced that Google Earth Pro, which was before priced at $399 per year before, will now be available for free.
Google Earth Pro is of course a fairly known, perhaps a bit forgotten by a lot of people, 3D interactive globe that can be used to aid planning, analysis and decision making. In a nutshell you can think of Google Earth to be a more advance version of Google maps.
If you are interested in trying out Google Earth Pro, you can download it for free. The process is fairly straight forward and only takes a few minutes for you have everything up and running.
Posted in Tech News.
Tagged Google, Google Earth, Google Earth Pro
GitHub Student Developer Pack
GitHub is now offering a pack aimed towards students completely free.
To be eligible for the pack you will need to be a student aged 13+ and enrolled in a degree or diploma granting course of study. You will need a school-issued email address, valid student identification card, or other official proof of enrollment.
The pack contains the following tools and products:
- ATOM — A hackable text editor for the 21st Century (text editor)
- bitnami — Business 3 plan (normally $49/month) for one year (hosting)
- CrowdFlower — Access to the Crowdflower platform (normally $2,500/month (data enrichment platform)
- Digital Ocean — $100 in platform credit for new users (hosting)
- DNSimple — Bronze hosted DNS plan (normally $3/month) for two years (hosting)
- GitHub — Micro account (normally $7/month) with five private repositories while you’re a student
- HACKHANDS — $25 in platform credit (Live programming help available 24/7)
- Namecheap — One year domain name registration on the .me TLD (normally $8.99/year & One year SSL certificate (normally $9/year) (domain)
- Orchestrate — Developer account (normally $49/month) while you’re a student (API platform that powers multiple databases-as-a-service for developing Web and mobile applications)
- Screenhero — Individual account (normally $11/month) while you’re a student (Screen sharing for collaboration in teams)
- SendGrid — Student plan 15K free emails/month (normally limited to 200 free emails/day) while you’re a student (email service)
- stripe — Waived transaction fees on first $1000 in revenue processed (Web and mobile payments)
- Travis CI — Private builds (normally $69/month) while you’re a student (hosted integration platform)
- Unreal Engine — Unreal Engine (normally $19/month) while you’re a student (game engine)
Click here to apply for the GitHub student developer pack !
Posted in Tech News.
Tagged ATOM, bitnami, CrowdFlower, Digital Ocean, DNSimple, GitHub, HACKHANDS, Namecheap, Orchestrate, Screenhero, SendGrid, stripe, Travis CI, Unreal Engine
JetBrains products free for students
JetBrains is now offering their products for free for all students. By using your student email or your ISIC/ITIC membership you can now get a free license for all products for one whole year.
In case you are not familiar with JetBrains (?!) you can find their main products listed below, some of which you should know.
ReSharper
ReSharper extends Visual Studio with over 1700 code inspections for C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, JavaScript, TypeScript and other technologies. For most inspections, ReSharper provides quick-fixes (light bulbs) to improve code in one way or another.
IntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA is a Java IDE for developing computer software.
PhpStorm
PhpStorm’s smart code editor provides excellent support for PHP (including the latest language versions and frameworks), HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Sass, Less, CoffeeScript, and many other languages. Enjoy coding with intelligent context-aware code completion, error detection, and on-the-fly code inspections & fixes.
dotTrace
dotTrace offers several profiling modes to help you detect any performance bottlenecks in a variety of .NET applications. Use dotTrace Home screen to choose your profiling targets, access recent profiling sessions or configure profiling options.
RubyMine
RubyMine’s smart code editor provides first-class support for Ruby and Rails, JavaScript and CoffeeScript, ERB and HAML, CSS, Sass and Less, and more. Take advantage of language specific-aware code completion, error detection and on-the-fly code fixes.
WebStorm
WebStorm’s smart code editor provides first-class support for JavaScript, Node.js, HTML and CSS, as well as their modern successors.
Take advantage of code completion, error detection, refactoring and more!
dotCover
JetBrains dotCover is a .NET unit test runner and code coverage tool that integrates with Visual Studio.
Top 5 Most Popular Databases 2014
While parsing the data for Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages 2014 I decided to make another chart that would illustrate which are the top 5 most popular databases in 2014.
As I have mentioned in the post above as well, the chart below is nowhere near 100% accurate as there are a lot of variations for each tag.
For my findings I used Stack Overflow’s database to query the posts that were created in 2014, then split and shorted the tags based on how many times they appeared in the posts. After parsing and processing 9307 unique tags with a total of 97386 occurrences, these are the results.
Raw Data
| Tag Name | Tag Count |
|---|---|
| MySQL | 54894 |
| SQL-Server | 25164 |
| MongoDB | 7605 |
| SQLite | 5090 |
| PostgreSQL | 4633 |
Posted in Tech News.
Tagged database, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL-Server, SQLite
Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages 2014
With the end of 2014 approaching I was wondering what were the most popular programming languages of 2014 I decided to see if I can, somehow, get a satisfactory answer for my question.
Needless to say the chart below is nowhere near 100% accurate as there are a lot of variations for each tag. Moreover, it contains languages that might not be considered as programming languages, such as HTML, JavaScript etc and I have not added their frameworks in their count (example: JavaScript and JQuery). As you can imagine the data can be interpreted differently depending on how you want to parse the row data.
For my findings I used Stack Overflow’s database to query the posts that were created in 2014, then split and sorted the tags based on how many times they appeared in the posts. After parsing and processing 9307 unique tags with a total of 2591986 occurrences, these are the results.
Raw Data
| Tag Name | Tag Count |
|---|---|
| JavaScript | 150927 |
| PHP | 114808 |
| Java | 106522 |
| HTML | 78740 |
| C# | 78396 |
| Python | 59513 |
| C++ | 34620 |
| Objective-C | 23641 |
| R | 17549 |
| C | 17151 |
Posted in Tech News.
Tagged C#, csharp, HTML, Java, javascript, Objective-C, PHP, programming, programming languages, Python, R
