Overview The Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) is a mature J2EE application development framework, well supported by Oracle JDeveloper. By using ADF, a developer can minimize the coding effort to
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has hit a bit of a rough spot lately. Unlike its big brothers SaaS and IaaS, PaaS providers are looking for traction in this diverse, even fragmented market.
Platform as a service vendor Heroku has made a number of changes to its infrastructure recently, and it says those improvements have decreased median app deployment times. Speed improvements range
At its PartnerWorld Leadership Conference, IBM announced its new Power Development Platform. The cloud development platform gives partners free access to IBM Power Systems for building and testing applications. Big
According to a new report from Good Technology, 132 million people worldwide use their smartphones for work. The company predicts that total will climb to 174 million by the end
Tiobe has updated its list of the most popular programming languages, and this month, one of the biggest surprises is a surge in popularity for Visual Basic.Net. VB.NET ranked as
When it comes to NoSQL projects, a large number of enterprises seem to be abandoning traditional IT roles and embracing DevOps instead. In a new survey, Gartner asked NoSQL users
Overview Instrumenting your application code should be one of the key Non-Functional Requirements for consideration while building applications in Azure, specifically if they are multi-tenant SaaS-based applications. Depending on the
Lately, it seems like a new coding academy opens nearly every day. But these startups that promise to teach newbies everything they need to know to get a development job
If researchers at NPD are correct, your next mobile PC will likely be a tablet. The firm forecasts that manufacturers will ship 315 million tablets this year—enough to account for
I attended SIGS DATACOMM OOP 2014 last week in Munich, Germany. I passed on the German language sessions – my high school Deutsch not sufficiently wunderbar – but among the
Overview In modern application development, the framework plays an important role–without the support of a mature framework, rapid application development is quite impossible. Oracle has developed an innovative, mature and
Microsoft has released a community technology preview (CTP) for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. The new IDE includes bug fixes and improvements for Team Foundation Server, code analysis and IntelliTrace.
A new report from EvansData spotlights the growing importance of APIs to developers worldwide. The Developer Population and Demographics Study finds that there are 18.2 million software developers in the
HTML5 isn’t developers’ first choice as a mobile platform, but more people are using it as a secondary platform to reach a broader audience—at least that’s what a new report
Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator will play major part in Europe-wide project providing a cloud-based realm of services and tools for software developers to enable rapid software prototypingLondon and Edinburgh, UK –
Many companies encourage the developers they employ to contribute to open source projects, but Rackspace has just gone a step further than most. The cloud computing company announced that its
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley writes that unnamed sources have told her Microsoft changed the planned shipment date for Windows 8.1 Update 1 from March to April. In addition to bug
The Eclipse Foundation, the non-profit organization that oversees the Eclipse IDE and related projects, was first announced on Feb. 2, 2004, meaning that it has just celebrated its tenth anniversary.
HP’s 2013 Cyber Risk report finds that developers are making mistakes that result in security vulnerabilities. According to the company, 80 percent of all applications are misconfigured, which makes them
Microsoft has confirmed that Satya Nadella will be its next CEO, replacing Steve Ballmer effective immediately. A twenty-two year veteran at the company, Nadella most recently headed up Microsoft’s Cloud
Flexiant and Arrow ECS UK Deliver a Complete Cloud Services SolutionService providers now have access to a combination of Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator and leading hardware to get to market in
IBM claims that it generated more cloud revenue in 2013 than Amazon Web Services. In its latest financial statement, Amazon reported $3.72 billion in “other” revenue, which includes all AWS
Late binding is a mechanism in which the method being called upon an object is looked up by name at runtime. This mechanism was useful in Microsoft’s Component Object Model
Amazon has released its earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2013, and its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing division appears to have had a fantastic quarter. It’s hard
User authentication is employed by a large number of websites. However, the security of that authentication is often not properly implemented, making the websites an easier target for malicious hackers.
Intel has announced that it will close down AppUp, it’s little-known storefront for PC apps. The store will stop working March 11, and apps that communicated with the AppUp client
Cisco has launched a new Internet of Things (IoT) project that will bring distributed computing to its network hardware. The company calls this concept “fog computing,” and it has launched
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A new Evans Data survey commissioned by Perforce found that 65 percent of the 600 software developers, managers and executives surveyed say their companies are currently using continuous delivery methodologies.