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Five Reasons to Keep NoSQL on Your Radar

Whether you are a fan of NoSQL, cynical of its merits, or just curious about its development goodies, there’s no escaping the presence and growth of NoSQL. In the next

Industry Watch: Continuous Delivery

?Jez Humble, a product manager at ThoughtWorks Studios, is advocating for a new development methodology called “continuous delivery.” While traditional agile development methods can improve the speed of software development

Is Google Going Agile?

In a recent blog post, Google’s Anthony Laforge announced, “Running under ideal conditions, we will be looking to release a new stable version about once every six weeks, roughly twice

Mono Going Mobile with Visual Studio

In the past, Novell’s Mono Tools for Visual Studio only supported the company’s own Linux distribution, SUSE. However, recent releases have added support for RedHat, and now version 2.0 makes

Top 10 Questions about Facebook Answers

Facebook released a very important feature recently, called “Facebook Answers,” which it hopes will leverage the power of our social networks to find the answers to the questions we may

Does NoSQL Spell the End of Relational Databases?

The surge of interest in NoSQL databases — and the slew of big-name production NoSQL implementations — has led some people to wonder whether relational databases are on their way

Top 6 Tips for Agile Testing

As software development practices continue to evolve, it has become increasingly important to test and modify software from the perspective of the group that will ultimately decide the fate of

Adobe Buys Day Software to Bolster ECM Portfolio

Adobe Systems this week announced it will pay $240 million to acquire Day Software Holding, a Swiss maker of Web-based enterprise content management (ECM) software applications. Along with giving Adobe

Useful UML Modeling: Two of a Kind

The results of a survey I ran recently indicated that most people are using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) for the early lifecycle activities such as explaining business needs, requirements

Programming, Development Skills in Demand

According to online job board Dice, U.S. demand for developers with Java/J2EE skills has become particularly strong, with 14,000 job postings nationwide. Employers are also looking for programmers with C#,

Cloud Working Group Developing Standard APIs

The DMTF is planning to create a standard vocabulary and set of application programming interfaces for cloud computing vendors. On Monday, the DMTF (formerly known as the Distributed Management Task

It is Now Legal to Jailbreak Your iPhone

The federal government today announced new exemptions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that will allow for the modification of smartphones, most notably Apple’s iPhone, without the handset maker’s

Third-Party JavaScript Leads to Malware on Web Sites

Do you know what’s running on your website? A new report from security firm Dasient concludes that the majority of websites are running third-party JavaScript somewhere on their sites, which

Google Executive Frustrated by Java, C++ Complexity

At the O’Reilly Open Source Conference, Google distinguished engineer Rob Pike told attendees that “industrial programming languages” like Java and C++ have become too complex. “I think these languages are

Microsoft Visual Studio Adds Scrum Component

This week, Microsoft unveiled Visual Studio Scrum 1.0, an extension for Visual Studio which works with the Team Foundation Server 2010 application lifecycle management (ALM) server. “So, why a new

Mobile Development Platform Comparison Matrix

 ToolsLanguage(s)CostDevicesDocumentationDeveloper SupportApp Delivery MechanismCarriersTarget AudienceAndroid• Android SDK• Android Development Tools (ADT) plugin on Eclipse 3.4 and 3.5• Java for native apps• Android Native Development Kit (NDK) for apps requiring C/C++

Compuware Offers Modern Front-end for Mainframe

Many enterprises face a challenge in finding developers who can work on the mission-critical applications that run on mainframes. Compuware’s Neil Richards notes, “Many of the people [in IT] don’t

Microsoft Updates Power Tools for Visual Studio

Developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 now have access to some new capabilities. Microsoft has released an update for Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2010, which features four

Which Flavor of Android Are Most People Using?

Versions of the Google Android mobile operating system are forward-compatible, but not backward-compatible. That means that an app developed for version 1.5 will work on version 2.2, but the opposite