In Visual Studio 2013, the team unified the performance and diagnostics experience (memory profiling, etc.) under one umbrella and named it Performance and Diagnostics Hub. Available under the Debug menu,
Zend has announced that its PHP application development platform, including Zend Server 7, is now available on Amazon’s cloud computing service through the AWS Marketplace. The company says the new
A while ago, we compiled and published a list of existing CMIS clients and libraries. Today, we thought it would be nice to update that resource.If you are developing an
The way we interact with the world has changed immensely over the last 10 years. The transition has largely consisted of moving to digital connections ? from paper forms, dumb
According to Good Technology’s Mobility Index Report for the second quarter of 2014, enterprise activations of Android devices are up, but iOS still leads by a wide margin. During the
Market research firm Forrester has released a new report titled “New Development Platforms Emerge for Customer-Facing Applications,” which documents the trend toward “low-code” development. The company uses the term “low-code”
Two stories on the Internet of Things (IoT) caught my eye this week. First, IDC’s prediction that the IoT market will balloon from US$1.9 trillion in 2013 to $7.1 trillion
HP has announced a new addition to its Helion cloud computing platform: Helion Managed Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Lean. As you might guess from the name, Lean is a lower-powered,
Microsoft has announced that it will stop supporting the most popular version of its Web browser. With 21.56 percent of the browser market, Internet Explorer (IE) 8.0 has more users
One of the most fascinating aspects of the Agile Architecture drum I?ve been beating for the last few years is how multifaceted the topic is. Sometimes the focus is on
Development project failures and the subsequent accompanying re-work are well-known issues in our industry. It’s come to the point where many have given up on trying to remediate the situation.
Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet says that her sources confirm a couple of new rumors about the next version of Windows, codenamed Threshold. First, the release is likely to include
Back in the day when software came in shrink-wrapped boxes, many companies bought more than they needed in order to make sure they had enough licenses for all their employees.
Peter Bright at Ars Technica has a lengthy article on Microsoft’s adoption of agile software development methodologies, and it’s well worth a read. Microsoft development teams had long been mired
Microsoft Azure Service Bus Event Hubs provide a topic based publish/subscribe messaging platform that allows for high throughput and low latency message processing. A preview version has been recently released
Microsoft has released a third update for its flagship IDE, Visual Studio 2013. The most eagerly anticipated new feature is CodeLens for Git repositories. It allows developers to seem more
Software change management solution includes new features for database modernization, and compatibility with CA 2E and LANSAUNICOM Global has announced a new release of its TURNOVER software change management solution
CIO Strategic Marketing Services and Triangle Publishing Services have released “The Connected Enterprise: Keeping Pace with Mobile Development,” a new Oracle-sponsored report based on a worldwide survey. Key takeaways from
For the second month in a row, the percentage of the world’s PCs running Windows 8 or 8.1 has declined slightly. According to Net Applications, 12.5 percent of desktops and
Thunder and AX WAFs Pass Rigorous TestingWoking, Surrey: 4th August 2014 – Wick Hill is now shipping A10 Network’s Thunder and AX Series application delivery controllers (ADCs), with web application
What?s wrong with this scenario? Bob, your VP of Engineering brings a ScrumMaster, a Java developer, a UX (user experience) specialist, and a Linux admin into his office. ?We need
The 2014 Big Data & Advanced Analytics Survey from Evans Data finds that the batch processing capabilities of Hadoop aren’t enough to meet developers’ needs. In fact, only 16 percent
Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan has ruled that Microsoft must comply with a federal search warrant and hand over a customer email?even though that email is stored
In the previous post you learned how to setup an Express Node.js application in Microsoft Azure and also make it a unit of continuous deployment using Git. An Express Node.js
In another sign of the growing importance of APIs, enterprise software vendor SAP will begin reselling API management software from Apigee under the name SAP API Management. The tool controls
Recently, more enterprise application development teams have been embracing devops?a philosophy that breaks down the barriers between development and operations to speed processes and simplify application management. However, some misperceptions
Microsoft has announced that it will release a developer preview for an update to Windows Phone 8.1 sometime next week. One of the biggest new features in the release is
Market research firm Gartner is reporting that supply chain management (SCM) software is on track to generate $10 billion in revenue in 2014. That’s a 12.2 percent increase from 2013;
Today’s corporate office is much quieter than it was 10 years ago, since many employees no longer work from their desks all day. Increasingly, people are getting work done remotely
Much like Microsoft, SAP has never been seen as a friend of the open source community. But that may be starting to change. At last week’s Open Source Convention (OSCON),