In a recent blog post, Facebook’s Durham Goode and Siddharth Agarwal explained how they modified the Mercurial version control system to meet their company’s needs. At issue was the vast
Its Salesforce1 platform is still very young, but Salesforce.com says the mobile platform is already showing great promise. In the first month after Salesforce1 launched, the cloud computing company saw
Microsoft has purchased Parature, an enterprise software vendor, and plans to integrate its customer service knowledgebase into Dynamics CRM. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch pegs the
Microsoft has announced two upcoming developer events. First, it will co-host a social-focused hackathon with Facebook January 17-18. “A number of our engineers along with Facebook’s engineers will be there
Like much of our society, programming is driven by trends. As new technologies create better precision, efficiency and ease of use, older technologies fall by the wayside. InfoWorld has put
Runnable, the three-month-old code discovery service that aims to be the “YouTube of code,” has announced two major new features. First, Runnable has added support for two of the most
It’s clear that hackathons have benefits for the enterprises that sponsor them—companies get new ideas, test their APIs, generate buzz and get a look at talent they might want to
Enterprise software saw some big changes over the past year. InfoWorld has put together a list of seven of the most important: In-memory databases going mainstream. HCM (human capital management)
All of the major cloud computing platforms are eager to attract enterprise developers, and Google Compute Engine is no exception. In its latest move in the cloud wars, Google is