To find out what developers think of the app stores, market research firm Open First surveyed the small group of developers whose apps are listed at the top of their
Ruby developers have multiple choices when it comes to which implementation of the language they want to run. One of those implementations, Rubinius, has now issued its version 1.1 update,
In Part 1 of this article, we focused on the underlying infrastructure that makes one of the deployments in question: Grid, cluster or Cloud environments. Considering that your performance and
Government and university sites tend to be trusted by people because such organizations are under such scrutiny that if they put any questionable content on their sites they may get
Thanks to a series of improvements in developer tools that Nokia announced last week at Nokia World in London, developers should find it easier and more profitable to build apps
Monday at JavaOne, Oracle’s Thomas Kurian set out “?to make sure every developer is crystal clear on where we see the Java platform evolving.” For now, Oracle’s Java plan involves
In recent days, Apple has approved several apps that compete with Apple products. First Opera and Google Voice and now the VLC Media Player for the iPad became available through
Mobile analytics firm Zokem has released a new report analyzing 10,000 smartphone users and 6.5 million smartphone app use sessions. They found that native apps now account for half of
All too often software engineers end up feeling like they’ve maxed out their career potential, and that there is no where else to grow in their jobs. Not true, and
SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle Develop and JavaOne are consuming a huge chunk of the city by the bay this week, spilling out of the cavernous Moscone Convention Center,
It’s been observed that the performance of software applications starts degrading as the data volume and user base of the application increases. Hence, the need arises to identify the bottlenecks
Bad Attitudes of Agile DevelopmentAre you guilty of one of these opinions? Agile development methodologies have a lot of benefits to offer: simplicity, speed, engagement with end users. However, agile
As mobile apps become more important to our everyday lives, a growing number of SMBs are looking to create custom apps. Often, these small businesses are turning to third-party developers
SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle Develop and JavaOne are consuming a huge chunk of the city by the bay this week, spilling out of the cavernous Moscone Convention Center,
Five years after Google acquired Urchin Software and created Google Analytics, the company is promising new features and a growing community of partners who will help Google develop a worldwide
In the previous article in this series, UML for Project Managers, I discussed how the UML (Unified Modeling Language)is not just a great tool for requirements elicitation, analysis, and design,
It’s a rare achievement when a lowly startup manages to persuade a Fortune 500 company to buy its product — big company managers tend to avoid unnecessary risk, and they
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (DEFINE:ESB) is a technology that performs a critical role in SOA (DEFINE:SOA) architectures, enabling data and message integration. With the open source Mule 3.0 release this
Yes, I know it’s just me (and maybe a few million other people) but I don’t like Digg v4, and even before it was rolled out a whole bunch of
We are entering a new era: Applications can be configured or assembled from toolkits or frameworks. How will this evolution affect business analysts (BAs) and developers? A BA typically wears
SAN FRANCISCO — Intel kicked off its Intel Developer Forum with several demonstrations of its next generation “Sandy Bridge” chips that will help power a new generation of the company’s
Developers have long complained about the number of different versions of Android in use, particularly about the number of users still on older versions. Now, the latest figures from Google
Looking for Work? Learn Ruby On RailsBusinesses are desperate to find developers who know the Web application development framework. As Web apps become important, companies are increasingly looking to hire
Facing a backlog of 120 projects that would take approximately 13 years to complete, the development team at Scotland’s University of St. Andrews turned to agile development methodologies to help
(Editor’s note: This is the first article in a two-part series that compares the difference in infrastructure for Grid, HPC and Cloud. In the second part, we will look at
DevX provides you a lot of great articles. In addition to the great articles there are a number of portals including the Visual Studio 2010 Showcase, the PHP for Windows
On Wednesday, Google released the much-rumored and anticipated major change to its search. Google tends to make many small algorithm changes on weekly and sometimes daily basis, but this change
Adobe had previously created Packager for iPhone, a tool that allowed developers to turn apps created with Flash into native iOS apps. However, when Apple announced a few months ago
Apple has been heavily criticized for its approach to iPhone and iPad application development, but it seems to be taking some steps to smooth developer relations. The company will now
Blogger Walter Bright says that two activities separate programmers who write fast code from those who don’t: using a profiler and examining assembly code. [login] While most developers have been