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Avoid Building Cathedrals in Your Bazaar

Eric Raymond coined the phrase The Cathedral and the Bazaar in his 1997 book of the same name, referring to the differences between the traditional, top-down approach to building software

Runnable: The YouTube of Code

Have you ever wanted to discover, run and reuse code from a browser? Well, you might want to take a look at Runnable, which is designed to enable developers to

SDN Trend Leads to DevOps Job Openings

As companies are transitioning to software defined networking (SDN) in their data centers, they are seeking new kinds of workers, say recruiting firms. Specifically, they need people with a wider

Study: iOS Dominating Enterprise Mobile Development

A new report from Good Technology suggests that Apple is dominating enterprise mobility. Among Good’s enterprise customers, 72 percent of the devices activated in the most recent quarter were iOS

Apache Releases Hadoop 2.0

The Apache Software Foundation has announced that Hadoop 2.0 is now generally available. The update to the open source big data platform adds features like YARN, High Availability for Apache

Avaya Announces UC Application Development Platform

Avaya has made a host of new product announcements related to unified communications (UC). Most notable from an enterprise application development perspective is the Avaya Aura Collaboration Environment, which makes

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OpenStack: Keeping Many Chefs in Line

I had an informative call with Jonathan Bryce, the Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation today. He went over the features of OpenStack’s new Havana release. Good stuff – but

Gartner: 10 Key Technologies for 2014

As part of a recent Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, analysts from the research team outlined strategic technology steps that enterprises should plan to take for 2014. Several of them relate to enterprise

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Are We Ready for Fog Computing?

Just when you thought you finally had Cloud Computing figured out, the next great meteorological buzzword rears its ugly head: Fog Computing. Basically an extension of the data center-focused Cloud

Android Devs Earn More; iOS Devs Have More Job Openings

Recruiting firm CyberCoders has published the results of a new study of mobile development salaries. Interestingly, senior Android developers earn significantly more than senior iOS developers—$131,571 per year for Android

New Features, Developer Program for Windows Phone

Microsoft has made two announcements related to its Windows Phone mobile development platform. First, it officially acknowledged the new features that will be in Windows Phone update 3. They include

Moneyball for Enterprise Application Development Teams

Michael Rosenbaum, founder and CEO of Catalyst IT Services, thinks it’s time to start applying the “Moneyball” tactics that have helped some baseball teams find success with undervalued players to

9 Top Mobile Development Skills

According to research conducted by IDC and Appcelerator, 63 percent of developers have seen demand for their skills rise recently. So what are the skills that enterprises want when hiring

Microsoft Delivers New 64-Bit JIT Compiler for .NET

Microsoft’s .NET team has introduced a new 64-bit just-in-time (JIT) compiler code-named RyuJIT. In a recent blog post, Andrew Pardoe, PM manager for the Common Language Runtime (CLR) PM team,

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Perforce Announces Analytics for Software Development Process

Perforce Announces Analytics for Software Development ProcessPerforce Insights Exposes Critical Patterns and Data Points to Shorten Release Cycles and Aid the Migration to Continuous Delivery Key Points:???Perforce Insights reveals metrics

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Emulex Supports Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

Emulex Supports Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2COSTA MESA, Calif, October 8, 2013 ??? Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced that its I/O connectivity

Microsoft to Discount Azure Prices

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella this week made several announcements related to the company’s Azure cloud computing service. First, Microsoft will discount its prices, in some cases matching the fees charged by

Micro Focus Announces COBOL Code Contest

COBOL isn’t exactly the hottest, trendiest programming language around, but it still runs legacy applications in use by thousands of companies. As part of its efforts to interest the next

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Verizon Cloud’s Red Flags

Last week’s announcement that large US telco Verizon was rolling out their brand spanking new Verizon Cloud created a modest buzz in the Cloud community. Instead of building on the