Sometimes it seems that the development industry changes at a glacial pace, but programming is currently in the midst of some big transitions. Peter Wayner says that these could be
Next week’s Usenix LISA (Large Installation System Administration) conference will highlight devops as one of the most important trends in enterprise IT. “LISA is always on the cutting edge of
Salesforce.com’s Heroku division is adding something new to its lineup of cloud development offerings: a database as a service based on the open source PostgreSQL database. Heroku Postgres uses the
VMware’s Cloud Foundry is taking the wraps off a new Ruby-based application that simplifies cloud data migration. Known as “Caldecott,” the application gives developers tools to analyze, manipulate or port
According to S. Somasegar, Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer Division, the upcoming release of Visual Studio 11 will feature several new language specific features. They include the following: For JavaScript:
While virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and platform as a service (PaaS) providers tout the benefits of their technologies, market research firm Forrester says that many enterprises aren’t buying into the
A new report from Piper Jaffray helps to explain why mobile development pros are more interested in building apps for iOS than for Android. Apps sold through Apple’s App Store
Evans Data has released the results of a new survey ranking the various platform as a service cloud development platforms. VMware’s Cloud Foundry received the best scores, although IBM and
Two recently released reports point out a contradiction in the mobile development industry. On the one hand, a Gartner report shows that users overwhelming favor the Android platform, which now