After eight long years, it’s an honor and a privilege to return to DevX. But while our hiatus from this venue had gone on far too long, ZapThink has been
The Extensible Markup Language, or XML, is big. But is it too big? And if so, should we do anything about it? The World Wide Web Consortium says that XML
No matter what language you prefer, whether it’s C/C++, Java, C#, Visual Basic or JavaScript, you are going to find lots of open source code to study and use. That’s
For a mobile application developer, the choice between Android and Apple’s iOS platform comes down to one thing: the developer’s goal for a given app. If the goal of a
The biggest difference between iOS and Android has always been simple: Apple makes its own phones, operating system and cloud back-end, and sells essentially a single model of phone and
During the keynote address at the Google I/O 2012 event, Google revealed some key new features in the next update for Android. A.k.a. Jelly Bean, Android 4.1 has improved speech-to-text
Google has unveiled a new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering called Compute Engine that will compete with similar cloud computing services from Amazon and Microsoft. At the Google I/O
As part of its quarterly earnings report, RIM announced that it will delay the launch of BlackBerry 10 yet again. The next update to RIM’s mobile operating system was promised
On Wednesday morning, Google kicked off its annual I/O developers conference with a keynote introducing several new or updated projects. First up, Google took the wraps off the next version
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