Java EE 7, under the specification of JSR342, is expected to be released in mid-late 2012. Anticipation of the update’s platform as a service (PaaS) capabilities is looming large among
In today’s enterprises, I deal with applications which are interactive or which run in batch mode. Interactive applications are like Web applications in that they require user input. By contrast,
Consider this all-too-common scenario in today’s complex, networked application environments. A network operations manager is awakened by a phone call in the middle of the night: “We’re experiencing significant performance
BlueStacks has released a beta version of its Android App Player, which allows users to run Android apps on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. It’s “LayerCake” feature runs ARM
Microsoft and Nokia have announced that they will each chip in 9 million euros ($12 million) to create a new app development program at Aalto University in Finland. Called AppCampus,
Startup Parse has announced that its “backend-as-a-service” for mobile developers will now be free to try. In fact, developers can get up to 1 million API requests, 1 million push
A new report from Sonatype and Aspect Security finds that developers are continuing to download out-of-date versions of open source libraries, even when repaired versions exist. In fact, they report
Until now, Amazon has been all about public cloud computing, but a new agreement with Eucalyptus gives it a toehold in private cloud computing as well. Under the terms of
Google has improved the security of its hosted cloud development services by adding support for certificate-based authentication technology. Google Cloud Storage, Google Prediction API, Google URL Shortener, Google OAuth 2.0
Oracle has received a blow in its patent lawsuit against Google. Alleging that Android violated some Java patents, Oracle had been seeking billions in damages. However, using the latest numbers
While it still has a long way to go to catch Apple’s App Store or Google Play, Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace has topped 70,000 apps. The mobile development platform passed
As you probably know, scopes are a very important aspect of a Web application. The scope notion represents the idea that an object belongs to a certain part of an
A new survey from the Ponemon Institute finds that while half of security professionals believe their companies’ apps adequately address security issues, 70 percent of enterprise application development professionals disagree.
New data from mobile analytics firm Flurry suggests that China is quickly becoming the world’s number one market for mobile applications. China recently overtook the U.S. as the country with
Free apps may be kinder to users’ wallets, but not to their device batteries. A new study from Purdue University found that up to 75 percent of the energy consumed
A new survey from IDC and Appcelerator finds that 79 percent of mobile developers plan to integrate HTML5 into their apps this year. However, because different browsers handle HTML5 content
Developers working on apps for the Windows 8 Metro interface say that Microsoft is pushing them to follow some fairly specific guidelines. For example, a Windows 8 search charm always
A growing number of customers are complaining about fraudulent charges on their iTunes account. For example, tech writer Ryan Matthew Pierson’s account was dinged $437.71 for in-app purchases from iMobsters,
The Amazon Appstore is officially one year old. On its first birthday, Amazon has revealed that the store now boasts more than 31,000 apps and “millions” of downloads. At launch
At the Black Hat Europe conference, cryptographer Whitfield Diffie, said that secure software holds the key for IT security. In order to write secure software, he advised programmers to keep
Research firm Forrester last year began using the phrase “NoOps” to describe an environment where developers rely so much on the cloud that they spend very little time on operations
While Google usually sends checks to Android developers on the second of the month, it didn’t write checks for some developers until March 15 this cycle. On a forum, Google
Just days after Amazon Web Services (AWS) slashed prices for its cloud computing services, Microsoft has done the same. Azure Store now costs 12 percent less, and the price for
With the mobile development industry increasingly concerned about discoverability, AppCode.es has unveiled two new utilities for App Store Optimization (ASO). ASO is a lot like the more familiar SEO (search
On mobile development forums, many Android developers are expressing frustration that they haven’t yet received their checks from Google for March. Usually, checks for developers’ share of revenues arrive in
Mobile development firm Mika Mobile has decided to stop supporting the Android platform. In a blog post, the company explained, “We spent about 20% of our total man-hours last year
A small group of German developers have released a beta version of AIDE, a free Android developer kit which runs on Android devices. Usually, developers need to use a PC
A new survey by recruiting firm CyberCoders reveals sizeable differences in the average pay for IT workers, depending on where those workers live. For example, while a .NET developer in
Making the transition from legacy methodologies, such as waterfall, to Agile development seems like a no-brainer. Delivering better-quality, more efficiently developed software applications is a goal that appeals to entire
As Node.js continues to gain adoption, there is an increasing need for tools to help test the applications built on it. When cloud hosting provider Rackspace started to use Node.js