April 9, 2014

IBM Expands MobileFirst Program

IBM has announced that it will enhance its MobileFirst program for enterprises by adding a number of new services, including cloud-based mobile-as-a-service and application development services. The mobile development services center around the company’s Worklight platform, which helps organizations build and manage native, HTML and hybrid apps. “With apps emerging

Number of Female Developers Hits All-Time High

A new Evans Data Survey finds that 19.3 percent of software developers are women. That’s more than double the number of female programmers from fifteen years ago. Not surprisingly, many of these female developers are young; in fact, 40 percent are under the age of 30. The survey also revealed

Developers Rush to Handle Heartbleed

On Tuesday, news broke of a major security flaw in OpenSSL, the technology that much of the Internet uses to encrypt data transfers. OpenSSL released a patch for the vulnerability, dubbed “Heartbleed” right away, and open source developers scrambled to create patches for Linux distributions and other applications that rely