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Action Launches Hosted Development Environment

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

Salesforce.com Improves Force.com PaaS

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,

MemSQL Promises to Speed Database Performance

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

Test Driven Development for JavaScript: jQuery and QUnit

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

VMware Launches vFabric Suite 5.1

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

AWS to Hold Developer Conference in Las Vegas

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

Google Play Passes 15 Billion Downloads

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.

12 Cloud Development Platforms Worth Watching

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 Launches App Center

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 Cloud Adds Billing Alerts

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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Heroku Tops 1.5 Million Apps

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

Red Hat Releases Code for OpenShift PaaS

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