Tiobe has updated its list of the most popular programming languages, and this month, one of the biggest surprises is a surge in popularity for Visual Basic.Net. VB.NET ranked as
If researchers at NPD are correct, your next mobile PC will likely be a tablet. The firm forecasts that manufacturers will ship 315 million tablets this year—enough to account for
Lately, it seems like a new coding academy opens nearly every day. But these startups that promise to teach newbies everything they need to know to get a development job
Microsoft has released a community technology preview (CTP) for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. The new IDE includes bug fixes and improvements for Team Foundation Server, code analysis and IntelliTrace.
HTML5 isn’t developers’ first choice as a mobile platform, but more people are using it as a secondary platform to reach a broader audience—at least that’s what a new report
A new report from EvansData spotlights the growing importance of APIs to developers worldwide. The Developer Population and Demographics Study finds that there are 18.2 million software developers in the
Many companies encourage the developers they employ to contribute to open source projects, but Rackspace has just gone a step further than most. The cloud computing company announced that its
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley writes that unnamed sources have told her Microsoft changed the planned shipment date for Windows 8.1 Update 1 from March to April. In addition to bug
The Eclipse Foundation, the non-profit organization that oversees the Eclipse IDE and related projects, was first announced on Feb. 2, 2004, meaning that it has just celebrated its tenth anniversary.