A startup called Action wants to make it easier for development shops to keep their development environments consistent. They’re offering a hosted development environment. Currently, Action includes a full Unix-like
Red Hat has announced the availability of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6. The update includes a number of features designed to promote cloud development and deployment, including an updated application
Salesforce.com has rolled out a number of upgrades to its Force.com cloud development platform. Those upgrades include geolocation fields for mobile apps, push upgrades and a new Schema Builder toolset,
Facebook alums Eric Frenkiel and Nikita Shamgunov have launched a new startup called MemSQL that vows to make relational databases up to 30 times faster. Their MemSQL technology achieves that
JQuery, the popular open source, cross-browser JavaScript library, simplifies JavaScript programming by enabling developers to easily write code that incorporates event handling, animations and calls to Web services. The library
These two quick JavaServer Faces (JSF) tips show how to extract request parameters and redirect page loads using a bean backing. Extract a Request Parameter in JSF When an application
Developers around the world have flocked to Ruby on Rails for its simple-to-use framework. Now, a pair of open source efforts are aiming to make it easier to get started
JavaFX provides a rich set of UI controls, which simplify the development of visually immersive front ends for database-driven applications. When combined with the PostgreSQL database and the Hibernate ORM
With mobile application capabilities and usage increasing, the application functions that are performed on a mobile device are also becoming more complex in functionality and more critical to businesses. The
The Open Data Protocol (OData), which Microsoft today uses to query and update Web data, could soon find much broader use as it heads toward standardization at the Organization for
When developing Hive-based applications, developers always have to deal with different HiveQL queries to perform basic CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) and other operations on Hive table data. The
VMware has turned its vFabric application framework into a suite. The just-launched vFabric Suite 5.1 relies heavily on open source technologies to enable cloud development and deployment of applications. “The
A new survey of 1,000 IT pros by Serena Software found that while Agile methodologies have caught on in enterprise application development teams, they haven’t eliminated all of the problems
Big data is an aptly named concept. Nowadays, huge amounts of data and information are generated by hundreds of millions of applications, devices and human beings all round the world.
The jury in the Oracle v. Google lawsuit has decided that nine lines of code in Android did violate Java copyrights. However, the jurors could not agree whether Google’s use
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has sent out “save the date” notices for a cloud computing conference to be held in Las Vegas November 27-29. Called “re:invent,” the conference appears to
A new report from Comscore finds that smartphone owners use apps to access the Web 81.5 percent of the time, while they rely on browsers just 18.5 percent of the
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced two new changes that enhance support for Microsoft technologies on its cloud computing services. First, Elastic Beanstalk now supports ASP.NET. Elastic Beanstalk handles deployment
In an effort to attract more small developers to its platform as a service (PaaS), Salesforce.com’s Heroku is rolling out some lower-priced cloud database options. Both are based on Postgres.
You’ve heard of software as a service, platform as a service and infrastructure as a service — now there’s open source license management as a service. WhiteSource Software is debuting
The app store formerly known as the Android Market has quietly passed a major milestone. Google has confirmed that Google Play saw its 15 billionth app download several weeks ago.
As platform as a service (PaaS) become more popular and more important, quite a few vendors have entered the market. Here’s a quick overview of twelve of the most important
Facebook is officially getting into the app store business by launching a new App Center. Although apps have long been a part of the social network, until now it has
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new feature that will notify customers of its cloud computing services when their usage exceeds certain levels. AWS already offered CloudWatch, a dashboard
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In this Apache Hive tutorial, we explain how to use Hive in a Hadoop distributed processing environment to enable Web analytics on large datasets. The Web analytics process will involve
In November 2010, Heroku was a respectable PaaS startup with an impressive 100,000 apps — all written in Ruby. Eighteen months later, the cloud development service is now part of
Google has announced the addition of several new capabilities for its Docs Suite that should make it easier for developers to extend the capabilities of the cloud computing service. Devs
Open source heavyweight Red Hat has released the source code for OpenShift, its platform as a service (PaaS) for Java, PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby applications. That means developers can
The jury is currently deliberating its verdict in the first phase of the Oracle v. Google lawsuit, and the development community is watching with great concern. While patent infringement lawsuits