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Salesforce.com Adds More .NET Tooling

Salesforce.com is reaching out to .NET developers with a new group of tools related to the Microsoft platform. According to Salesforce’s Wade Wegner, the company has released new toolkits that

Why Isn’t PaaS More Popular?

InfoQ has put together a good roundup of analyst opinions about the state of the platform as a service (PaaS) market. PaaS offerings appear to fill an important enterprise need,

AWS Slashes S3, EBS Prices

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is once again dropping prices on some of its cloud services. This time it’s storage that’s getting cheaper, specifically Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Block

Which Language Is Best for Big Data?

Among developers involved with big data projects, a minor controversy has been brewing about which programming language best meets their needs. Many point to R as the ideal language for

CloudSpokes and Topcoder Unite

Appirio has announced that it is unifying two development crowdsourcing communities that it owns: CloudSpokes and topcoder. It is retiring the CloudSpokes name and moving everyone over to topcoder, which

How to Hire Great Developers

While the overall unemployment rate is fairly high, unemployment for developers continues to be very low, and enterprise application development teams are finding it difficult to hire really good employees.