Matt Murphy, who oversees the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ $200 million iFund investment unit, told conference attendees that the most successful mobile apps keep things simple at launch. “You
Microsoft has announced plans to give access to the Windows Marketplace to a limited number of developers beginning next week. “First movers” who have Windows Phone 7 apps ready need
As agile software development methodologies become more familiar within mainstream IT organizations, agile practitioners have been experimenting with some of Agile’s Lean roots. One lean practice that has gained traction
In August, Apple announced that iTunes U hit the 300 million download mark, just three years after its launch. Between iTunes U, You Tube Edu, and more and more schools
Put yourself in a hiring manager’s position: you have two well-qualified job candidates. One of them says he’s worked on this project and that project, but since all his work
At the GigaOm Mobilize conference, a panel of investors predicted that the interest in app development would continue for the foreseeable future. Venture capitalists are intrigued by the new landscape
Android is a very hot platform for mobile developers. Indeed, a recent report indicates it may be the hottest platform. Mobile Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond, from VisionMobile, states that
Responding to criticism from app developers, Google has announced that it will expand the number of countries with access to paid apps on the Android Market. In the past, only
AT&T `Speed Dating’ With App Firms to Gain Edge Over VerizonThe company launches a mobile application development project costing “tens of millions of dollars.” AT&T has announced that is will
Australia-based Atlassian has been a solid player in the code repository and collaborative development tool marketplace since 2002. Now, with a recent $60million investment from Accel Partners in hand, the
Novell is expanding the capabilities of its SUSE Appliance Toolkit for building and maintaining Linux-based software appliances. The new SUSE Appliance Toolkit 1.1 release adds a menu of new deployment
NoSQL databases and relational database management systems (RDBMSes) are very different animals with different strengths and weaknesses. Does that mean a NoSQL Database and a RDBMS cannot possibly sit side-by-side
To find out what developers think of the app stores, market research firm Open First surveyed the small group of developers whose apps are listed at the top of their
Ruby developers have multiple choices when it comes to which implementation of the language they want to run. One of those implementations, Rubinius, has now issued its version 1.1 update,
In Part 1 of this article, we focused on the underlying infrastructure that makes one of the deployments in question: Grid, cluster or Cloud environments. Considering that your performance and
Government and university sites tend to be trusted by people because such organizations are under such scrutiny that if they put any questionable content on their sites they may get
Thanks to a series of improvements in developer tools that Nokia announced last week at Nokia World in London, developers should find it easier and more profitable to build apps
Monday at JavaOne, Oracle’s Thomas Kurian set out “?to make sure every developer is crystal clear on where we see the Java platform evolving.” For now, Oracle’s Java plan involves
In recent days, Apple has approved several apps that compete with Apple products. First Opera and Google Voice and now the VLC Media Player for the iPad became available through
Mobile analytics firm Zokem has released a new report analyzing 10,000 smartphone users and 6.5 million smartphone app use sessions. They found that native apps now account for half of
All too often software engineers end up feeling like they’ve maxed out their career potential, and that there is no where else to grow in their jobs. Not true, and
SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle Develop and JavaOne are consuming a huge chunk of the city by the bay this week, spilling out of the cavernous Moscone Convention Center,
It’s been observed that the performance of software applications starts degrading as the data volume and user base of the application increases. Hence, the need arises to identify the bottlenecks
Bad Attitudes of Agile DevelopmentAre you guilty of one of these opinions? Agile development methodologies have a lot of benefits to offer: simplicity, speed, engagement with end users. However, agile
As mobile apps become more important to our everyday lives, a growing number of SMBs are looking to create custom apps. Often, these small businesses are turning to third-party developers
SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle Develop and JavaOne are consuming a huge chunk of the city by the bay this week, spilling out of the cavernous Moscone Convention Center,
Five years after Google acquired Urchin Software and created Google Analytics, the company is promising new features and a growing community of partners who will help Google develop a worldwide
In the previous article in this series, UML for Project Managers, I discussed how the UML (Unified Modeling Language)is not just a great tool for requirements elicitation, analysis, and design,
It’s a rare achievement when a lowly startup manages to persuade a Fortune 500 company to buy its product — big company managers tend to avoid unnecessary risk, and they
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (DEFINE:ESB) is a technology that performs a critical role in SOA (DEFINE:SOA) architectures, enabling data and message integration. With the open source Mule 3.0 release this