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
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer says the company is “all in” for the cloud, but moving its Dynamics ERP solution to the cloud could prove challenging for several reasons: [login] Dynamics current
Surveys by Forrester and others show that enterprises generally prefer infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to platform as a service (PaaS). That’s because although PaaS makes it easier for developers
Application development tool vendor Gizmox has unveiled a new solution called Instant CloudMove that makes it easier for developers to re-purpose their desktop applications. It transforms .NET client/server applications into
At a question-and-answer session during the Inside Social Apps conference, Google’s Android platform manager Eric Chu told app developers that the company is “not happy” with the current App Market
Market research firm Gartner predicts that mobile customers will download 17.7 billion apps this year, spending more than $15.1 billion. That’s a 117 percent increase in downloads over 2010’s 8.2
It’s always been easy to see which iOS apps are currently the most popular, but now Apple has debuted a page that shows the all-time leaders. Here are the top