Microsoft has released Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, a new collection of tools designed to simplify the process of creating applications for Office 2013, Office 365 and SharePoint
Mobile fragmentation isn’t a new topic, but a new report from Flurry demonstrates how pervasive the problem has become within the mobile development industry. According to the firm, developers who
TechRepublic has released the results of a new survey about enterprise use of software as a service (SaaS). The overwhelming majority of those surveyed said they were happy with their
The CloudBees platform as a service (PaaS) has announced new capabilities that make its cloud development platform even more flexible. Developers who use the CloudBees PaaS for development work can
SpringSource has released version 1.0 of Spring for Apache Hadoop. It integrates the Spring Java application development framework with Hadoop, the popular open source tool for big data processing and
Cloud Sherpas has released Ferris, a new open source Python framework that aims to make it easier to create custom applications for Google App Engine. “What Ferris does is it
The market researchers at IDC are predicting that the hosted private cloud (HPC) services industry will be worth more than $24 billion by 2016 — a compound annual growth rate
VersionOne has released the results of a new survey which questioned 4,048 software developers about agile software development. They found that 83 percent of those surveyed planned to use agile
Until now, Apache Hadoop has been a Linux-only affair. However, Hortonworks has released a beta version of Hadoop that runs on Windows, and they’ve released the code for the Windows