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
Security researcher Michael Sutton warns that the types of offline storage specified in the HTML5 standards offer criminals new ways to attack users’ systems. Some applications that run entirely over
Last year, developers complained to Apple about the length of time it was taking to receive approval on iPhone apps, and the company responded by speeding up the process. Now,
In this article I will show how to apply a neural network to financial prediction. This program is implemented as a Microsoft WPF application using C#. For neural network processing,
In a recent report, Skyhook found more than 6,000 location-aware apps for the iPhone, 900 for Android, and 300 for Blackberry. However, only 43 of apps worked cross-platform. Not surprisingly,
In this article, Allaire argues that the HTML5 vs. Flash vs. native apps debate and the open vs. proprietary code debate won’t be solved any time soon. Instead, he believes
According to Novell and the Mono Project, a new alpha release of Moonlight 3.0 brings the capabilities of the Linux/Unix software closer in line with the capabilities of Microsoft’s Silverlight
In Part 1 of this series you learned that design discussions and code reviews can be divided into four modes of speech using the four Critical Conversation Cards: Inquiry, Suggestion,
Version 11.1.1.4 of Oracle’s set of free plug-ins for Eclipse IDE includes a number of new features to streamline authoring and deployment of apps. For example, updated capabilities for the
Getting a group of critical thinkers, engineers, designers, and programmers to review a colleague’s work together can be a daunting, if not down right disagreeable, task. What starts out as
In an update on its iPhone developer RSS feed, Apple has delivered a warning: “If your app uses location-based information primarily to enable mobile advertisers to deliver targeted ads based
IBM’s InfoSphere Business Information Monitor will allow organization to monitor the movement of information from databases to enterprise applications. When something goes wrong, the software will send out RSS or
Developer Sahil Lavingia has announced plans to create a “One Week App”–a brand new iPhone application that he’ll take from start to finish in just one week. Throughout the process,
How do design specifications for mobile apps differ from those for other applications? What are the best practices for developing Java-based applications for Blackberry devices? What tools are available to
Following the Sun-Oracle merger, Project Kenai has become one of the first projects to get the ax. Oracle says it is eliminating public access to the open-source project-hosting site in
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Over the past two years, Facebook’s “HipHop for PHP” has reduced CPU usage on the company’s Web servers by an average of 50 percent. “The project has had a tremendous
In a recent study by Computer Economics, 33 percent of companies surveyed said that they were currently outsourcing application development. That’s about a 20 percent drop from the more than