Microsoft used the Mobile World Congress as the opportunity to release a number of statistics related to its Windows Phone platform and to announce a new Dev Center app. The
Oracle has released version 7.5 of its NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE). Although NetBeans focuses primarily on Java, most of the key updates in the release improve its handling of
.NET developers who use Microsoft’s Visual Studio IDE now have a new tool that can allow them to develop iOS apps. The 2.0 version of the Xamarin development platform includes
The advent of the era of cloud development has meant that many developers now use multiple cloud-based services in their day-to-day activities. And tracking all of those services in a
Amazon’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has launched a new application management tool called OpsWorks. Built from technology that Amazon acquired with the purchase of Berlin-based Peritor last
According to Bart Copeland, CEO of ActiveState, cloud computing, specifically private and hybrid platform as a service (PaaS), is poised to shake up enterprise application development. He predicts six changes
Despite the fact that Windows Phone and BlackBerry account for very small slices of the mobile market, a new survey reveals that mobile developers are still somewhat interested in both
On Thursday, developer James Somers blasted Heroku in a blog post, claiming that the platform as a service had made changes that slowed performance. Now Heroku has come clean, admitting
Rally Software, which specializes in agile software development tools, has announced that it has acquired Flowdock for an undisclosed sum. Flowdock makes social collaboration software that will complement Rally’s agile