It wasn’t too long ago that building a distributed application meant you’d implement a SOAP based web service. At that time, web based interfaces were based on some pretty heavy standards forming a stack colloquially known as “WS-*.” But, over the last 10 years there has been a dramatic shift
Two new employment reports indicate that the job market for developers could be hotter than ever in 2015. First, a Dice report finds that tech hiring plans are stronger than they’ve ever been: 75 percent of recruiters surveyed expect to hire more tech workers in the next six months than
Oracle reported strong earnings in most recent quarterly report, due in large part to the strength of its cloud computing operations. The company’s cloud-related revenue climbed 47 percent year-over-year, and it said that new cloud bookings were up 140 percent for the quarter. “We booked over $170 million in new
Preprocessors are programs that accept input and produce output that in turn becomes input for the next cycle. Preprocessor directives are statements in a program that are preceded by the hash sign (#). Such directives facilitate portability and conditional compilation of your source code. In this article we will explore