An analysis of 745 applications by Cast Software finds that Java apps have the most violations of standard development practices per line of code. When application developers are rushed to

At the GigaOM Net:Work conference, Podio CEO Tommy Ahlers said that enterprise application development pros shouldn’t try to build too many features into their apps. Instead, he said devs should

According to code-testing vendor Veracode, the company finds security vulnerabilities in 84 percent of desktop and Web applications when they are submitted for testing the first time. Two-thirds of those

While hard statistics can be hard to find, several developers say that their sales and downloads through the Amazon Appstore have skyrocketed after the release of Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet.

A federal court in New Mexico has issued a temporary restraining order that prevents RIM from using the trademark “BBX,” the name the company had been using for the next

With demand for skilled programmers on the rise, many organizations are offering new training programs that teach application development skills. Recently, several of those organizations have attracted funding from investors.

Following weeks of speculation about whether HP would sell the WebOS platform it acquired with the purchase of Palm, company CEO Meg Whitman has announced that WebOS will become open

At a recent conference in Paris, Forrester Research’s Chairman and CEO George Colony challenged attendees to change the way they think about the Internet. He posited his theory that the

At the CloudBeat conference in Redwood City, California, Platform as a Service (Paas) vendors expressed their opinions about the growing number of large IT vendors — including Oracle, Dell and

Which enterprise software development trends will be making the news next year? eWeek says these five areas will be key: HTML 5 — While Flash isn’t going away completely anytime

What makes some IT projects succeed while others fail? Alistair Cockburn says it all boils down to three behaviors: “Those that were co-locating face to face, (with) short delivery cycles,

A new Forrester Research report finds that while most software as a service (SaaS) companies already have high valuations, those with specialized offerings for various vertical markets soar even higher.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Agile software development both help companies become more flexible and better align business and IT. As a result, many have noted that SOA and Agile

HPCC, the LexisNexis alternative to Hadoop for big data processing, has tuned its Thor Data Refinery Cluster to run on Amazon Web Services. That means that developers who would like

The consumerization of IT and the growth of bring-your-own-device policies is changing the way employees work. Today’s employees are much more likely to be mobile, and they need access to

Staffing firm Robert Half Technology has released its list of “Seven Promising Jobs” for 2012, and mobile application developer tops the lists. The firm predicts that mobile developers will earn

Sometimes it seems that the development industry changes at a glacial pace, but programming is currently in the midst of some big transitions. Peter Wayner says that these could be

Next week’s Usenix LISA (Large Installation System Administration) conference will highlight devops as one of the most important trends in enterprise IT. “LISA is always on the cutting edge of

Salesforce.com’s Heroku division is adding something new to its lineup of cloud development offerings: a database as a service based on the open source PostgreSQL database. Heroku Postgres uses the

VMware’s Cloud Foundry is taking the wraps off a new Ruby-based application that simplifies cloud data migration. Known as “Caldecott,” the application gives developers tools to analyze, manipulate or port

According to S. Somasegar, Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer Division, the upcoming release of Visual Studio 11 will feature several new language specific features. They include the following: For JavaScript:

While virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and platform as a service (PaaS) providers tout the benefits of their technologies, market research firm Forrester says that many enterprises aren’t buying into the

Evans Data has released the results of a new survey ranking the various platform as a service cloud development platforms. VMware’s Cloud Foundry received the best scores, although IBM and

A new report from Piper Jaffray helps to explain why mobile development pros are more interested in building apps for iOS than for Android. Apps sold through Apple’s App Store

Two recently released reports point out a contradiction in the mobile development industry. On the one hand, a Gartner report shows that users overwhelming favor the Android platform, which now

Adobe has announced that it would like to donate its Flex code base to the Apache Software Foundation. Flex is Adobe’s SDK for building enterprise Web applications using Flash technology,