On Friday, around fifteen developers supporting the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York took place in a half-day hackathon. “My goal was to get people interested and get them
At a recent developer event, Intel’s Peter Biddle, general manager for the AppUp app store, admitted, “I think we sucked at getting consumer visits.” So far, Intel’s new app store
At the recent OpenWorld/Java One event, Oracle offered some details about the forthcoming Solaris 11 operating system. Now available to developers in a feature-complete “early adopter” release, Solaris 11 is
IBM has announced the launch of three new cloud-based offerings that are part of its SmartCloud line. The first, and arguably the most interesting, is IBM SmartCloud Application Services, a
Canonical has officially released Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. The latest release of the Linux distribution includes several new features, but one of the most interesting from an application development standpoint
For more than a decade, object-oriented programming has been the norm. But Larry O’Brien writes that is beginning to change as functional programming approaches become more common. Functional programming “will
At the SQL PASS Summit on October 12, Microsoft announced two new projects which it will undertake in cooperation with Hortonworks. The two companies plan to release a preview of
In addition to rolling out its long-awaited iPad app, Facebook this week extended Facebook Platform for mobile. Users of the social network’s iOS apps or its mobile Web site will
On Tuesday, Google announced that it was changing the name for its Google Storage for Developers to Google Cloud Storage and that it was lowering the prices for the service.