Developers seeking a better, smarter, and potentially lower-cost way to create location-based mobile apps might want to consider using a location-as-a-service platform — a market that is just lifting off.Location-based
Everyone knows that Apple has the largest mobile app store, but a lot fewer people could tell you that GetJar is number two. Despite its status as a relative unknown,
Every year, the Eclipse Foundation coordinates a release train of Eclipse-related projects. This year’s release, named “Helios” includes 39 separate projects and more than 33 million lines of code. Notable
Red Hat’s JBoss middleware division is updating its platform this week with the release of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0, featuring new enhancements designed to improve its ease of use.
The first part in this two-part articlee xplains how you can modify an image without changing its basic content. It shows how to brighten or darken a picture, increase its
When I was a little boy my father took me to an amusement park. As we walked down the midway we passed a shooting gallery, 5 shots for a quarter.
CollabNet has announced the availability of a beta version of Subversion Edge, a new Subversion distribution which features a Web-interface that reduces deployment and administration time. The release also includes
Georgia—the country, not the state—is offering tax-free status to IT companies who locate within its borders. Georgian Prime Minister Nikoloz Gilauri told a Russian news agency that his country is
Before mobile developers even begin a new project, they face a choice: should they develop a native app for a particular OS or a Web-based app that will work on
Apple’s refusal to allow Adobe’s Flash technology into any of its products — a position forcefully reiterated by Steve Jobs at the recent D8 Conference and in his open letter
With a language as complex as the UML (Unified Modeling Language), which is described in a specification that is more than 700 pages long, we all can understand how parts
I’ve been using Linux for close to 15 years now. I’ve written three books in OpenOffice.org, and my favorite text editor is Bluefish, which I’m using to write this article.
On Wednesday, Research in Motion announced App World 2.0, which will bring a number of changes to the ways Blackberry users interact with and pay for their apps. Most notably,
The new Sencha Touch framework allows app developers to create Web apps for mobile devices that feel like native apps. The framework utilizes technology from the “HTML5 family” like CSS
The open source Subversion source code management (SCM) application is one of the most widely used applications for managing code. Yet despite its popularity over the years, it has always
Learning from your own mistakes is a necessary skill in the business world. An arguably even more valuable skill is to learn from the mistakes of others. Consider these common
At the end of 2008, the open source Ruby on Rails and Merb Ruby frameworks merged together in an effort to unify development of Ruby on Rails 3. Fast forward
How painful is it to use your company’s software testing system? If your answer is more painful than dealing with a fender-bender, or coping with an equivalent annoyance, you are
Geek.net, the parent company of SourceForge.net, Slashdot.org, ThinkGeek.com, Geek.com, freshmeat.net, and ohloh.net, has told employees that it will be closing freshmeat.net and ohloh.net. This information has not yet been released
Recently, Evans Data surveyed more than 400 mobile application developers about which types of applications are most important for enterprise users. According to the report, they viewed “collaboration tools, followed
Python 2.7, the last iteration of the 2.x line of the dynamic language, is nearing the final release stage. The first release candidate became available earlier this month, and the
Despite Economic Conditions, Application Deployment Software Market Still Showed GainsResearchers at IDC say the middleware market grew 2.2 percent in 2009. According to the latest figures from market researcher IDC,
On Monday, Apple issued new policies for application development on the iPhone and iPad, which prevent apps from sending data to any third-party company that isn’t “an independent advertising service
Numerous security tools on the market today perform static analysis, penetration testing and security audits on application code that has already been written. But what if you could stop vulnerabilities
As you’re probably aware, Software as a Service (SaaS) is a deployment model by which service providers remotely host application over the Internet and service it on demand to one
Here’s your chance to ask experts from Internet.com and Microsoft questions about the new features and versions of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Internet.com and Microsoft
A couple weeks back I was highly influenced by a small-map-based GPS (Global Positioning System) application, developed using C#, targeting windows mobile devices. Embedded GPS receivers are becoming a standard
At the TechEd conference, Microsoft announced that it is making it easier for developers to create Web apps in the cloud by adding .NET Framework 4 support. Azure also now
Recently, the Eclipse Foundation surveyed 1,696 open source developers about their operating systems, databases, languages, and source code management systems of choice. Among operating systems used for development, Windows still
This is an excerpt from the book “Visual Basic 2010 Programmer’s Reference,” by Rod Stephens. In the book, Stephens provides programmers and developers of all skill levels with a comprehensive