Should universities be offering Cobol classes? The aging language is virtually never used to write new applications, but enterprises still run billions of lines of Cobol code in their legacy
Microsoft has officially released the second update for its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). According to the company, the update includes improvements in five different areas: Agile planning, quality
Twitter has announced some updates to its Cards feature that is used by many developers to promote various types content. First, the company is rolling out “app deep linking,” which
A new report from Flurry finds that smartphone and tablet owners spend an average of 2 hours and 38 minutes per day using native apps, compared to 31 minutes using
A new open source tool called the Soasta CloudTest Plugin for Jenkins aims to speed up the development and testing of mobile apps that will be deployed in the cloud.
A new survey by platform provider Kaazing polled developers to find out how well they were “Meeting the Challenge of an Always-On, Web-connected World.” They found that 78 percent of
In a lengthy special report, eWeek’s Darryl K. Taft examines the current state of enterprise adoption of agile software development. He notes that a recent VersionOne survey found a 15
In a report titled “Agile Software Development and the Factors That Drive Success,” Forrester Research identified key practices that set apart successful agile implementations from those that didn’t live up
More enterprise IT shops are embracing a devops philosophy, which promotes closer collaboration between developers and IT operations staff. Scott W. Ambler from Dr. Dobb’s says that these 10 practices