Gild, a career website for developers and engineers, has announced that it now has half a million members from more than 174 countries. The site, which launched last year, takes
Black Duck Technology is rolling out Code Sight 2.0, an update to its flagship code search product. The new release offers better performance (up to six times faster than its
OpenLogic has announced a new, extremely flexible platform as a service offering called CloudSwing. The company says it hopes to give developers the same flexibility as an infrastructure as a
Not only did Nokia show off its first Windows Phone 7-based handsets this week, it also announced that it will be giving away 25,000 of those handsets to developers. Starting
Oracle has officially unveiled its NoSQL database, making downloads available from its website. “It’s a distributed key/value store with built-in high availability, and it also offers users options as to
Application development tool vendor Atlassian has announced a new cloud-based service called Atlassian OnDemand. The company’s software products, including Jira, Confluence, Bonfire and GreenHopper, are available on a software as
According to a new report out from Millennial Media, the Android operating system accounted for 56 percent of all impressions on mobile devices during the third quarter. However, when you
Just last month, RIM promised to reveal the second generation operating system for its PlayBook very soon, but the company now says the OS won’t be ready until next year.
Developers who are writing code that extends the capabilities of cloud applications face a lot of potential pitfalls. David Taber offers a number of tips to avoid those pitfalls, including