Amazon Web Service has posted a new job opening for a “Software Development Engineer – Mobile,” leading some to speculate that the cloud computing firm may soon getting into the
In many ways, Cyberwar is different from traditional warfare, but in other ways, it’s simply a variation on an age-old theme. True, the Internet is the battlefield and the combatants
At a conference in New York City, Todd Papaioannou, former chief cloud architect for Yahoo, talked about his experiences setting up 45,000 Hadoop servers in Yahoo’s 400,000 node private cloud.
Corona Labs has announced a new backend as a service for mobile developers. Called “Corona Cloud,” the service incorporates features from the Corona SDK and reduces the time it takes
Backing up your important corporate data to the Cloud makes sense, right? It’s offsite, highly reliable, and inexpensive. What’s not to love? Of course, it’s important for your Cloud backup
More and more enterprise developers are looking for NoSQL datastores to help them manage their big data. But because the field is so new, many developers aren’t aware of their
Development tool vendor Atlassian has announced a new Windows client for Git and Mercurial distributed version control systems (DVCS) that it calls SourceTree. SourceTree also integrates with several Git hosting
In order to improve its IT operations, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is adopting agile software development methodologies and moving to a cloud computing environment. Margaret Graves, DHS
Developers who have enjoyed the real-time collaboration features on Google Drive will now find it easier to add similar capabilities to their own apps. The company has released the Google
Microsoft is improving its Azure cloud computing platform in two key areas of interest to developers. First, it’s making it easier to deploy and manage Hadoop Clusters on Azure. Enterprises
by Roman Kropyvnytskyy, IT Consultant, SoftServe Inc. Today, a need for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is increasing due to the growing share of standardized solutions implementation. Companies progressively refuse domestic
A new report from Secunia shows that most application developers aren’t getting better at writing secure code. On the other hand, the makers of the most popular desktop applications are
Even though it’s unlikely the Department of Defense (DoD) read my new book before putting together their plan, I can at least say it’s an example of great minds thinking
Netflix relies heavily on cloud computing, specifically on Amazon Web Services, and it’s always looking for ways to improve the technology that supports its on-demand video service. To that end,
In one of the most ironic news stories of the week, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has taken its National Vulnerability Database (NVD) website offline because
The last week or so has been a busy one in the ongoing Cyberwar. China is pushing back against the US, blaming Cyberattacks coming from a particular office building in
Is JavaScript the most popular programming language? It’s definitely the most common language used in GitHub projects, but the curators of the popular programming language indexes say that’s not enough
Microsoft is so eager to grow its collection of apps for Windows and Windows Phone that it’s willing to pay $100 per app. Under the company’s new “Keep the Cash”
This morning, tickets for Google’s annual I/O developer conference went on sale, and as in year’s past, the tickets sold out in less than an hour. In previous years, Google
A new survey from Bite Interactive found that a majority of smartphone users prefer native mobile applications to HTML5 apps. More specifically, 66 percent of iPhone users and 63 percent
If a building has twenty exterior doors and you lock nineteen of them, does that make you 95% secure? We call this question the “20 doors” problem. The answer: of
Facebook has announced that this spring it plans to hold three developer events called “Mobile DevCon 2013” that will focus on mobile development. The first event will take place in
Amazon Web Services has announced that its Elastic Beanstalk cloud development platform now supports Node.js. According to the company, the change will allow developers who use Node.js to focus on
Over the weekend, many enterprises and open source projects were temporarily unable to access their code when code-sharing site GitHub experienced downtime. Both Saturday and Sunday, the service reported “major
Part 1 of this two-part series explained automated acceptance testing for Java Web applications using using JBehave, Thucydides and Selenium 2/Webdriver. This final installment demonstrates how to start implementing some
Boston (the hardware vendor, not the city) wants to make it easier for enterprises to use its microservers, which run on ARM-based chips instead of x86 processors. To that end,
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has recently announced price cuts on many of its cloud computing services, and now it’s continuing the trend by slashing charges for its DynamoDB NoSQL database
If current trends continue, many enterprise applications will one day be moving to cloud computing environments, even if they aren’t in the cloud already. InfoWorld’s Andrew C. Oliver offers twelve
Two of the most significant trends in IT — mobile and cloud computing — are pushing enterprise developers toward Agile software development. Thanks to mobile and cloud-based apps, end users
A new infographic from Wix indicates that the app economy has made life better for developers. Although developers have traditionally worked long hours, Wix says app makers work an average