In order to make it easier to use its App Engine cloud computing service, Google has unveiled a new “Mobile Backend Starter.” It includes everything mobile development firms need to
In the past, Microsoft has taken two years between each update of its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE), but it is rushing out Visual Studio 2013 less than one
IBM is adding some devops capabilities into its SmartCloud cloud computing platform and its MobileFirst mobile development software. SmartCloud is getting new log analysis tools for its cloud analytics, application
How quickly should software developers respond with a patch or mitigation advice when a security researcher informs them of a zero-day vulnerability? In 2010, Google said 60 days was soon
At the O’Reilly Fluent Conference, Sarah Mei from Pivotal Labs addressed a common phenomenon on enterprise application development teams—really good developers who unexpectedly write really lousy code. According to Mei,
With more and more enterprises launching big data projects, workers with Hadoop skills are in high demand. That raises the question, if developers want to apply for Hadoop-related jobs, what
Microsoft has now revealed a few more details about the next version of Windows, version 8.1, codenamed Windows Blue. For users, the big news is that Microsoft is bringing back
Enterprise applications have a reputation for being ugly and somewhat difficult to use. But HP wants to change that perception. “Historically, most enterprise application developers start with a set of
Development tool vendor Zend has released the results of its annual survey of PHP developers. Not surprisingly, mobile development and cloud computing are on the minds of most developers this