Amazon has officially opened its Appstore for Android, and the new store has quite a few features that set it apart from other app stores. For example, the Appstore offers
Jim Highsmith signed the original Agile Manifesto ten years ago last month. What does he think of agile today? “My first reflection is that ten years of Agile methods have
Is the wall between development and operations beginning to break down? According to job search site Indeed, the term “devops” is turning up in more job postings. And Mike Maciag,
Eclipse is debuting a new set of tools aimed at increasing its appeal for Web developers. “Eclipse is a very successful open source community, best known for building tools for
According to a recent survey by EvansData, mobile devices are becoming much more important in the application development world. In fact, the survey found that 35 to 40 percent of
All thirteen members of the Executive Committee for Java SE/EE have voted to approve the Jave Enterprise Edition (EE) 7 specification that was submitted by Oracle. Members of that committee
Google has added a new application statistics dashboard to the Android Market Developer Console that should give developers more insight into the audience for their apps. The dashboard displays each
The Unified Testing Initiative (UTI) is a non-profit organization focused on mobile application quality, and its members include AT&T, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Oracle, Orange, Samsung and Vodafone. The group has
Despite the number of job postings for “software architects,” Craig Larmon believes that “Architecture is a bad metaphor. We don’t construct our software like a building, we grow it like