If the essence of a couple of recent reports are true, Android is a very popular platform for mobile developers — and the most popular in 2010. Other reports indicate
Microsoft’s Amitabh Srivastava says Azure surpasses other cloud platforms because it has targeted developers from the very beginning. “We support any language and multiple frameworks. We provide a rich ecosystem
Short for Building Security In Maturity Model, BSIMM is a research project documenting the actual secure development practices used at large companies like Adobe, Bank of America, Capital One, EMC,
The following code snippet could be used to upload files to an FTP site. It uses the ‘FtpWebRequest’ and ‘FtpWebResponse’ classes from the System.Net namespace.Using System.Net: //Also include any other
Cloud computing by some accounts is the best thing that ever happened to the world of IT and businesses. It does not matter whether you are a mom-and-pop shop or
Microsoft this week said it is working on a new Visual Studio tool meant to give developers of all skill levels the ability to create business applications using prefab templates
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Whether you are a fan of NoSQL, cynical of its merits, or just curious about its development goodies, there’s no escaping the presence and growth of NoSQL. In the next
?Jez Humble, a product manager at ThoughtWorks Studios, is advocating for a new development methodology called “continuous delivery.” While traditional agile development methods can improve the speed of software development
In a recent blog post, Google’s Anthony Laforge announced, “Running under ideal conditions, we will be looking to release a new stable version about once every six weeks, roughly twice
In the past, Novell’s Mono Tools for Visual Studio only supported the company’s own Linux distribution, SUSE. However, recent releases have added support for RedHat, and now version 2.0 makes
The recent collaboration between Rackspace and NASA on the open source cloud called OpenStack marks a turning point for open source software projects, which creative IT people have hidden away
Facebook released a very important feature recently, called “Facebook Answers,” which it hopes will leverage the power of our social networks to find the answers to the questions we may
The surge of interest in NoSQL databases — and the slew of big-name production NoSQL implementations — has led some people to wonder whether relational databases are on their way
As software development practices continue to evolve, it has become increasingly important to test and modify software from the perspective of the group that will ultimately decide the fate of
Adobe Systems this week announced it will pay $240 million to acquire Day Software Holding, a Swiss maker of Web-based enterprise content management (ECM) software applications. Along with giving Adobe
The results of a survey I ran recently indicated that most people are using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) for the early lifecycle activities such as explaining business needs, requirements
According to online job board Dice, U.S. demand for developers with Java/J2EE skills has become particularly strong, with 14,000 job postings nationwide. Employers are also looking for programmers with C#,
The DMTF is planning to create a standard vocabulary and set of application programming interfaces for cloud computing vendors. On Monday, the DMTF (formerly known as the Distributed Management Task
The federal government today announced new exemptions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that will allow for the modification of smartphones, most notably Apple’s iPhone, without the handset maker’s
Do you know what’s running on your website? A new report from security firm Dasient concludes that the majority of websites are running third-party JavaScript somewhere on their sites, which
Should you develop for the Android platform? This article condenses all the details into a short guide. It covers: Android Programming Languages Development Tools and Setup Costs Android Devices: Features,
At the O’Reilly Open Source Conference, Google distinguished engineer Rob Pike told attendees that “industrial programming languages” like Java and C++ have become too complex. “I think these languages are
This week, Microsoft unveiled Visual Studio Scrum 1.0, an extension for Visual Studio which works with the Team Foundation Server 2010 application lifecycle management (ALM) server. “So, why a new
 ToolsLanguage(s)CostDevicesDocumentationDeveloper SupportApp Delivery MechanismCarriersTarget AudienceAndroid• Android SDK• Android Development Tools (ADT) plugin on Eclipse 3.4 and 3.5• Java for native apps• Android Native Development Kit (NDK) for apps requiring C/C++
Palm webOS, now owned by HP since it bought Palm for $1.2 billion earlier this year, integrates a window-based operating system with the simplicity of a browser. Most applications are
Forecasting which areas of IT will need workers in the future is a tricky business. But right now, signs seem to indicate that in 2015 enterprises will be looking for
At the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), Gnome Foundation executive director Stormy Peters told developers, “When it comes to Web services, we’ve gotten lazy.” She added, “A lot of people
Many enterprises face a challenge in finding developers who can work on the mission-critical applications that run on mainframes. Compuware’s Neil Richards notes, “Many of the people [in IT] don’t