Photo aggregation service Trove recently ran a survey on Hacker News which polled developers about which APIs were the hardest to integrate into their projects. Facebook ranked worst with 19
In its quest to promote greener computing, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) is turning its focus on application developers. Executive director George Goodman is spearheading an effort to educate
A new Evans Data survey finds that Mac OS X has become more popular as a development environment than Linux. According to the report, 7.9 percent of developers now use
The co-founders of AKF Partners, Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher, have published a new book titled Scalability Rules. It offers advice for managers, architects, developers and operations personnel who face
While many veteran programmers have skills that their younger counterparts will never need, many also say they have experience that could come in handy to today’s developers. Here’s a quick
According to consultant Benjamin Day, Agile development methodologies are changing the job of the software architect. Today’s software architect has to be a combination project manager, forward thinker and business
A new post on the Chromium blog reveals that Google is working on a new API it calls “Web Intents.” Just as Android Intents makes it easy to share data
A recent Microsoft job posting suggests a possible new future for Office: Now is the time to take Office programmability to the next level. We’re a small but strong team
In a recent IDC survey sponsored by Appcelerator, half of mobile developers said that most of their earnings come from app downloads. That’s a 9 percent decrease from the survey