Yesterday, the Microsoft Azure team announced?the availability of the Azure Resource Usage and Rate Card API?that developers on the Azure platform can now leverage to programmatically retrieve usage and billing
Without any announcement or fanfare, Google has begun beta trials of Cloud Source Repositories, a code repository service based on the Google Cloud Platform. Earlier this year Google shut down
Two separate research firms?Gartner and 451 Research?have both released reports which found that enterprises are outsourcing more mobile development tasks because their in-house staff can’t keep up with demand. The
Salesforce is debuting Service for Apps, a new set of tools and services that will make it easier for organizations to add customer service capabilities to their apps. The first
The way users experience software is very subjective, of course, but there are some ultimate truths that hold for all users. One of these is that the speed of the
At the Red Hat Summit in Boston this week, Red Hat and Samsung announced that they will be partnering together on a new enterprise mobile development initiative. “Samsung will be
According to Microsoft, developers who are part of its Insider program will receive a preview version of the Windows 10 software development kit (SDK) before the end of June. The
Oracle is banking on its platform as a service (PaaS) offerings as a way to compete with Amazon in the cloud computing space. The company is rolling our 24 new
Docker and CoreOS have been the two biggest competitors in containerization, but the two are now coming together in the Open Container Project, a new standardization effort overseen by the
As organizations strive to improve the customer experience, they are going through a digital transformation focused on leveraging some of the latest trends at their disposal to help keep and
Red Hat has announced that it has taken over stewardship for OpenJDK 7, which was released in July 2011 and is part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Oracle release
After reviewing the method used to diagram the syntax of SQLite commands a couple of years ago, I was able to create what I believe is a better method for
CloudBees has announced the release of six plugins that add Docker support to Jenkins, the widely used open source continuous integration platform. “We’re seeing a huge trend toward Docker and
Last week, Bloomberg Businessweek published a really long (30,000+ words) article titled “What Is Code?” It’s been receiving high praise from both developers and non-developers, and it offers an incredibly
Microsoft is reshuffling its executive leadership and reconfiguring some of its teams. Four key leaders are leaving their positions: Stephen Elop, former Nokia CEO and head of Microsoft’s devices business;
The Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) pattern isolates the data querying aspects of an application from the insert, update and delete operations. There are limited use cases regarding when you
Google’s App Engine for PHP cloud computing service has exited beta and is now generally available. Google’s cloud development platform now supports four scripting languages: Python, Java, Go and Python.
IT resourcing firm Mondo has released a new report detailing salary ranges associated with various job titles. Many IT job titles have seen pay increases over the past year, with
Software supply chain management vendor Sonatype has conducted a review of 1,500 applications that were built using open source components and found that on average, each application inherited 24 severe
Facebook has released a mobile testing tool called Infer under an open source license. Infer can spot errors in Objective-C, Java and C, making it capable of testing both iOS
IBM is making a big investment in Apache Spark. The company announced plans to assign 3500 researchers to work on the open source big data project. ?I like to think
On Thursday, Amazon announced the addition of a new type of cloud computing instance to its EC2 service. The company says that its M4 instances will be particularly good for
At its Cisco Live 2015 event, Cisco announced that 35 software developers have signed on to be part of the company’s Intercloud initiative. Introduced last year, Intercloud is Cisco’s effort
All professions and crafts have tools. Mastering the tools is a big part of being successful and software development is no different. If anything, there are more tools to choose
At the Hadoop Summit, Mike Gualtieri, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, told attendees that Hadoop is “a data operating system and a fundamental data platform that in the next couple
Compuware has released the results of a new survey that suggests trouble ahead for large enterprises that rely on mainframes. While 88 percent of CIOs at very large enterprises said
More than 30 customer-requested enhancements deliver readiness for Windows 10, Visual Studio 2015, SHA 256 Certificates and more Maidenhead, U.K. – June 10, 2015 – Flexera Software, the leading provider
This easy to use plug and play virus removal USB drive reaches deep into the operating systems going beyond traditional software based AV The Netherlands – June 9th 2015 –
At the Hadoop Summit, MapR Technologies announced the release of the fifth version of its MapR Hadoop distribution. According to the company, the update offers notable performance improvements. It speeds
During the keynote address on the first day of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the company made a number of noteworthy announcements. The new streaming music service is getting most