March 6, 2013

Join the Agile Architecture Revolution

The suspense has been overwhelming. Since I began writing for this blog, I’ve been talking about the Agile Architecture Revolution. Not to be confused with Agile methodologies like Scrum, I answered the question Is Agile Agile? — with the answer, unfortunately, usually ending up a resounding no. After all, a

Flurry Report Highlights Mobile Fragmentation Woes

Mobile fragmentation isn’t a new topic, but a new report from Flurry demonstrates how pervasive the problem has become within the mobile development industry. According to the firm, developers who want their apps to work on 90 percent of all active devices will need to support 331 different smartphones and

Visual Studio Gets New Office App Tools

Microsoft has released Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, a new collection of tools designed to simplify the process of creating applications for Office 2013, Office 365 and SharePoint 2013. The new release allows Visual Studio developers to use Web technologies to create office productivity apps that complement Microsoft’s