The Apache Foundation has announced that Apache Flex is no longer an incubator project and has become a top-level project (TLP). Flex is an application framework for Web and mobile
Computerworld editor-in-chief Scot Finnie has come out with a new article touting best practices for enterprise developers who are working on mobile apps. He encourages organizations to learn from others’
Microsoft appears to be making a new push to convince mobile developers to use its Azure cloud computing service. In a new blog post, the company’s Nick Harris reviews the
A new survey of 400 developers from Evans Data finds that on the average, cloud development reduces the time it takes to complete an application by 11.6 percent. “The bottom
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), an EU advisory body, this week warned that some of the most innovative areas of technology also represented the greatest security risks.
Recently, some critics have charged that Windows 8 sales seem to be slower than expected. Predictably, Microsoft begs to differ. Tami Reller, chief marketing officer and chief financial officer for
VMware and Red Hat are engaged in a legal battle over ownership of the Vert.x open source project. Similar to Node.js, Vert.x is an application development framework that runs on
Learn-to-code startup Codecademy is adding some new courses to its curriculum that will help both novice and experienced developers learn to use APIs from various Internet services in their applications.
For the second time in a month, the Ruby on Rails team has released critical security updates for the popular Web application framework. One flaw addressed by the patch could