Developers looking for better visibility into the lifecycles of their Microsoft and .NET applications might want to check out dynaTrace 3.2, new software from dynaTrace, an application performance management vendor.
Part 1 of this series started a simple project to show how you can use Adobe Flash Builder 4 to rapidly develop a SOAP-powered map application called TerraClient. Using the
Speaking at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Universal Parallel Computing Research Center, Microsoft kernel architect Dave Probert said that today’s operating systems aren’t doing a good job with new
Wired reports that several iPhone app sites, including TheiPhoneAppReview.com and AppCraver.com are accepting fees from developers. In most cases, the sites charge a fee for “expediting” the review, but some
Adobe Flash Builder (formerly Adobe Flex Builder) introduces a powerful new set of tools for using remote data services. Of particular interest is Flash Builder’s support for SOAP (Simple Object
On Wednesday, a federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted two former computer programmers–Jerome O’Hara, 47, and George Perez, 44—who worked for Bernard Madoff’s firm. In a written statement, the U.S.
According to recently published research, Americans pay about $1.09 per mobile app, while people in other parts of the world pay less than 20 cents. As a result, Americans account
It used to be that apps went live on the App Store whenever they were approved by Apple—and it was anyone’s guess when that might be. Now, not only has
According to the latest research, the market for enterprise software will grow faster in China than anywhere else–14.6 percent per year from 2008 to 2013. And despite the economic conditions,
TechNewsWorld says that developers are in fact making money building apps for smartphones, and they’re doing it in several ways: Selling apps directly to consumers Licensing apps to resellers or
According to the latest research from Black Duck Software, 2009 was a pretty good year for mobile open-source projects. Developers started 903 new mobile open-source projects for a 39 percent
At the Mix10 conference, Microsoft unveiled a preview of Internet Explorer 9. The most notable change to the browser is greater support for HTML5, which could make it easier to
Getjar, the world’s second largest mobile app store, has just published a study that predicts that mobile application sales will grow to $17.5 billion within two years. During the same
REST, or Representational State Transfer, is a style of software architecture for accessing information on the Web. The RESTful service refers to web services as resources that use XML over
Last June, IBM began offering private cloud services for application development and testing, and now it will begin offering a public cloud option as well. Having a cloud-based infrastructure available
At its Mix 10 conference, Microsoft released free versions Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4 multimedia toolkit, both equipped with an emulator for the Windows Phone 7 OS. In
Forrester Research analyst Mike Gualtieri worries that developers are not adequately accounting for third-party services and APIs in their threat modeling of Web applications. “Developers are not adjusting,” he said.
Getting an idea from conception to implementation can be a disheartening experience in any company. I’ve seen good ideas go unrealized not so much due to resistance in the enterprise,
Would you like a free, powerful server for a year to develop an application that could make you money while possibly creating a few jobs? What’s not to like, right?
Research suggests that at April’s F8 conference for Facebook developers, the company may make more user data available to third party developers. ReadWriteWeb notes, “A firehose of public Facebook user
According to Michael Scherotter, Microsoft media experience evangelist, the company plans to unveil a new Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework beta at its Mix10 conference in Las Vegas. “[The idea] is
Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and former Sun employee, now works for Google as a “Developer Advocate” for Android. In a blog, he explained that he made the move partly
The latest research from Flurry offers three interesting charts about the state of applications for smartphones. First, many more developers are creating applications for the iPhone than for Facebook, and
One month after the company offered a release candidate, Microsoft has released a final version of ASP.Net MVC 2. The tool offers a Model View Controller pattern for Web app
One of the biggest current criticisms of the iPhone is that it doesn’t allow multi-tasking with third-party apps. However, that may be about to change. The latest beta of the
In recent research, IDC found that enterprises want software pricing models that allow them to pay for what they use, but also distribute costs evenly over time. “IDC believes that
Today Google opened an “extensions gallery” for Google Wave and released a new Google Wave robots API (v2) for developers. Initial tools in the gallery include a yes/no voting gadget,
Forbes released its annual list of the world’s billionaires Thursday, and technology companies are well represented, even though Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is no longer the world’s richest person.That honor
San-Francisco-based Busted Loop has turned up a number of interesting statistics about the iPad as part of its App Slice project. Highlights include the following: Only 16,700 of the 140,000
For many years, Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) based on SQL have dominated, but that may be about to change. This week’s NoSQL Live conference in Boston highlights the advantages