Electric Cloud, a provider of software production management solutions, rolled out two enhanced tools this month that provide developers with automated alternatives to tedious, costly, and error-prone manual build-test-deploy processes.The
After clearing the final regulatory hurdles, the deal that will allow Microsoft’s Bing to power Yahoo searches seems all but sure to go through. Yahoo has posted some information about
Google is courting developers with a new “Qualified Developer” certification. In order to achieve the title, developers must rack up enough points in four different categories: application development, community participation,
Bump wants everyone to use their technology to transfer data from one smartphone to another. With that goal in mind, they’ve released an API and held a developer contest to
Bonjour is Apple’s implementation of the Zeroconf protocol, which enables the automatic discovery of computers, devices and services on an IP network. In this article, you will learn how to
Officially, Microsoft won’t reveal its strategy for Windows Phone 7 developers until the Mix conference in March. Unofficially, it looks like Silverlight, XNA, and .Net will play key roles. A
In last month’s roadmap session, Oracle said that it planned to combine Sun HotSpot Java Virtual Machine with the JRockit JVM; now it has added some details to those plans
Since it’s inception last September, the CodePlex Foundation has accepted only Microsoft projects, including the Orchard Project and the ASP.Net Ajax Library. The Microsoft-back organization, which intends to bridge the
In a survey of enterprise and SMB IT executives, Forrester Research found that the bad economy has led many companies to put off buying upgrades for existing applications. This year,
To understand how deeply social media has become engrained into the heart of modern Web and even world culture, you only have to imagine the world in the year 1999
In his keynote at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Google CEO Eric Schmidt called attention to the growing importance of mobile devices. He encouraged application developers–both inside and outside
Embarcadero offers more than 20 different tools for programmers, now all available through its Embarcadero ToolCloud. Available products include Delphi, JBuilder, C++Builder, ER/Studio and DBArtisan. Developers who use the on-demand
The SANS Institute, MITRE, and other top software security experts have once again compiled a list of “the most widespread and critical programming errors that can lead to serious software
The goal of this article, (this is part II), is to offer suggestions on how to build a company and give it a chance to stand on its feet, while
The Wall Street Journal gives the new mobile Windows operating system kudos for its design and plans to support Flash, but questions some of its other aspects. It points out
Developers have four basic choices for hosting a Web application. The first option is to buy their own servers and lease co-location space. That option requires a lot of upfront
Just months after launching Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 (ES2), Adobe has created LiveCycle Managed Services, a cloud-based version of the suite that runs on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).Adobe
Over the last several years, Agile software development has gained inpopularity, thanks to its promises of speeding software projects with aiterative approach designed to encourage rapid, high-qualitydevelopment. Even though Agile
On January 31, a blog titled “What’s In Store for the Next Windows,” suggested that Windows 8 development was well underway. The mysterious blogger, known only as “Sharad” wrote, “I
Microsoft is trying to attract Web developers to Sharepoint 2010, while at the same time keeping the product integrated with a long list of other Microsoft products and services. Pleasing
According to Flurry Analytics, more than 1,600 new App Store projects that integrated the company’s analytics technology were started in January. That compares to just 600 Flurry projects in December.
Cloud computing company UShareSoft has announced the release of two new products: UForge Appliance Factory and Open Appliance Studio. UForge Appliance Factory aims to make it easier to assemble software
Yesterday, Apache announced that the Beehive Java programming model has been retired. Although the code is still available in the Apache Attic, the foundation will not be releasing any more
The Guardian’s Vic Keegan sees a problem with the fact that 87 percent of phone app downloads are free. He doesn’t think that technology giants like Apple should be making
Building a user interface that meets an enterprise’s requirements by hand can be tedious, time-intensive, and cost-prohibitive. This white paper explains how GUI builders can make the process between two
There is a glut of overly optimistic literature giving advice and encouragement on entrepreneurship, innovation, and fearlessness in the face of risk. The advice can be quite misleading due to
Software company MuleSoft has announced the availability of “Cloudcat” a virtual image of the Tomcat Web server that makes it easier to develop and test Web apps in the cloud.
According to the 2010 salary report from Computer Economics, the median IT salary will rise just 1.8 percent this year, well below the 2.7 percent rate of inflation. That’s the
Microsoft’s Tech Days Paris began this week, and programming languages and web apps are major themes. During a demo talk at the show, Don Syme, principal researcher at Microsoft Research,
Yesterday, Google unveiled Buzz, its social networking feed for Gmail that competes with Twitter and Facebook. Unlike its competitors, however, Google is taking an open, standardized approach to social networking