In the movie The Social Network, potential Facebook interns were asked “If you were required to write code after becoming intoxicated, could you do it?” Whether or not it actually
On January 7, 2011, Apple launched its Mac App Store with about 1,000 apps. Since then, the store has swelled to pass 4,000 apps, even as developers continue to express
Google has plenty of Android-related legal troubles in its lawsuit with Oracle, but the current lawsuit not Android’s only potential problem. Google’s handling of Linux code also raises issues. That’s
Developers looking for an alternative to Oracle-owned MySQL have a new option. Drizzle, an open-source fork of MySQL has reached the GA release stage. Because Drizzle is based on MySQL
For her PhD research project, Angela Martin investigated the way that agile development methodologies impacted the working relationships between developers and their customers–“Not how people think it should have worked,
Microsoft has announced the availability of the second beta for its Visual Studio LightSwitch application development tool. According to Microsoft’s Dave Mendlen, LightSwitch “extracts away code and allows you to
In tests conducted by The Register and outside developers, Web apps performed about two and a half times slower when launched from the iPhone or iPad home screen than when
Massachusetts-based application analytics firm Localytics has released a new report which reveals some surprising and somewhat contradictory statistics about mobile app users. The firm found that 26 percent of those
Like all iOS developers, the programmers who created an app for Britain’s The Guardian newspaper faced a challenge: how to get their app noticed in an incredibly crowded marketplace. The