Google I/O, San Francisco — Google has moved the bar forward with its late-June announcement of the 10th version of Android, formally known as Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean.” Scheduled to
The odds-on source code management system (SCM) for many development teams is Subversion. That is changing. The new favorite is Git. Subversion is a popular SCM system where developers can
At its Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012 events, Red Hat announced how it plans to make money from its OpenShift platform as a service (PaaS). Beginning later this
A new Vision Mobile survey of 1,500 mobile development pros finds that the average developer earns $1,200-$3,900 per app each month. Surprisingly, BlackBerry was the most lucrative platform, earning an
Many experts estimate that only around 30 percent of the firms that attempt to transition to Agile software development methodologies are completely successful. Allan Kelly offers these tips to help
Yesterday, you developed software for computers. Today, you build apps for smartphones. What will you work on tomorrow? It could be one of these five emerging development platforms: Your car
Among developers who use Flurry analytics, project starts for Windows Phone are up 521 percent over the last 12 months. Windows Phone apps currently account for 6 percent of all
Amazon is making some changes to its Appstore pricing structure that offer good news for Android developers. From now on, developers will get 70 percent of the list price for
Looking for the next buzzword for enterprise IT? It might be “software-defined data center.” A software-defined data center is characterized by generic hardware that is managed by separate software. It’s
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.