Andrew Vos recently ran an unusual analysis of code comments on GitHub that’s attracting some attention. Using George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words,” he analyzed 929857 commit messages and found 210
The fate of Nokia’s Qt development platform has been uncertain since the company announced that it would be selling smartphones that use the Windows Phone 7 operating system. Now the
For months, Google has been promoting the idea of Web apps without making much headway — probably because Web apps don’t seem much different than Web sites. However, Mozilla’s new
Fragmentation has long been a challenge for Android developers as they attempt to write applications that will work on the various versions of the OS and the myriad of devices
Recently, a post by blogger Jamie Murai took aim at RIM’s developer program. After the post received a deluge of traffic, RIM responded, admitting that many of the points made
In the middle of the iPad 2 introduction, Steve Jobs revealed an interesting statistic: The company has paid out more than $2 billion to App Store developers since its launch
A new Creative Intellect Consulting survey of more than 170 development professionals finds that 59 percent are not following security and quality processes rigorously, and 26 percent have little or
Gianugo Rabellino has a solid history of leadership in the open source community: He founded the Italian Linux Society, served as CEO of open source services company Sourcesense for many