According to Jurgen Appelo, author of Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders, many agile initiatives don’t succeed due to a lack of effective management. He offers a number
Hadoop has put large scale data processing within the reach of more companies, but it still requires a fairly knowledgeable technical staff in order to make it work. However, EMC’s
A startup called “Git Hacking” won the Philly Startup Weekend competition with a plan to add social networking to GitHub. With 1.6 million repositories and over 560,000 users, GitHub is
Google has released a preview of the SDK for Android 3.0, codenamed “Honeycomb.” The tablet-specific version of the OS has a completely different interface from the smartphone version of Android.
“People familiar with the matter” tell the Wall Street Journal that Google is planning to hire dozens of mobile app developers, product managers, user-interface experts and others with ideas for
Although Microsoft includes plenty of good tools in its Microsoft Azure SDK, it leaves some holes. These additional tools for Azure, compiled by CodeGuru, fill some common application development needs
At the 2011 Turing Lecture at London’s Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Stanford professor Donald Knuth called for “literate programming” as a way to improve software quality. “Programs should
According to analysts at Juniper Research, mobile apps that make use of augmented reality (AR) technology will bring in $1.5 billion by 2015. Although the technology is still very young,
Developers from Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, Mageia, Mandriva, openSUSE, and Ubuntu met in Germany January 19-21 to discuss the development of a universal Linux app store. Such an app store