Veracode has published a new “State of Software Security” report, which confirms what many developers and security experts have long suspected: some programming languages are more susceptible to certain security

A conference held this week at the University of California’s Hastings College of Law in San Francisco offered some advice about privacy for the mobile development industry. Tim Wyatt, director

Based on their analysis of U.S. Labor Data, the IEEE-USA says that unemployment for software engineers fell to 2.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013, down from 2.8 percent

According to a new report from Canalys, mobile app downloads increased 11 percent in the first quarter of 2013 to reach 13.4 billion. The mobile development industry brought in $2.2

Two different sets of enterprise application development tool vendors have announced new partnerships related to continuous integration (CI). CI is an agile software development technique that involves merging developer work

In the past, Google Compute Engine (GCE) was only available by invitation, but now any Google Cloud Platform Gold Support customer can use the service. An infrastructure as a service

Should universities be offering Cobol classes? The aging language is virtually never used to write new applications, but enterprises still run billions of lines of Cobol code in their legacy

A new survey conducted by software development services vendor Electric Cloud finds that software engineers spend only 19.1 hours per week on coding tasks on average. They spend another 22.4

Microsoft has officially released the second update for its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). According to the company, the update includes improvements in five different areas: Agile planning, quality

A new report from Flurry finds that smartphone and tablet owners spend an average of 2 hours and 38 minutes per day using native apps, compared to 31 minutes using

Twitter has announced some updates to its Cards feature that is used by many developers to promote various types content. First, the company is rolling out “app deep linking,” which

A new open source tool called the Soasta CloudTest Plugin for Jenkins aims to speed up the development and testing of mobile apps that will be deployed in the cloud.

A new survey by platform provider Kaazing polled developers to find out how well they were “Meeting the Challenge of an Always-On, Web-connected World.” They found that 78 percent of

In a lengthy special report, eWeek’s Darryl K. Taft examines the current state of enterprise adoption of agile software development. He notes that a recent VersionOne survey found a 15

More enterprise IT shops are embracing a devops philosophy, which promotes closer collaboration between developers and IT operations staff. Scott W. Ambler from Dr. Dobb’s says that these 10 practices

In a report titled “Agile Software Development and the Factors That Drive Success,” Forrester Research identified key practices that set apart successful agile implementations from those that didn’t live up

While more and more tech companies are suing each other every day, Google has taken the unusual step of promising not sue—at least in certain cases. On Thursday, Google posted

For some time, rumors have been swirling concerning Microsoft’s next update to Windows, codenamed Blue, but Microsoft itself has said little. That may be about to change. The Verge’s Tom

Based on numbers provided by BlackBerry, it appears that developers are developing native apps for the BB10 platform in greater numbers. Back in January, BlackBerry World had 70,000 apps for

If a new Puppet Labs survey of 4,000 enterprises is credible, devops, a practice that encourages tighter collaboration between developers and IT operations, is on the rise. The vendor found

Autodesk CEO Carl Bass says it’s tougher to make a free smartphone app than a high-priced piece of enterprise software. He should know, because his company, known for its costly