A new report from online job board Dice finds that 57 percent of companies involved in developing mobile apps are planning to hire in the next 12 months. However, more
In 1986, Susan Lammers interviewed 19 prominent programmers for her book Programmers at Work. This article revisits their early thoughts on the computing industry and catches up with five of
It was getting pretty hard to keep track of all the app stores out there, but someone finally put together a list. Although it still looks a little incomplete, it
Confirming rumors that the company was decreasing its support for the projects, Microsoft will officially hand off control of the IronRuby and IronPython programming languages to the open source community
A new report from IDC says that software as a service (SaaS) is on “a tear,” with expected compound annual growth rates of 26 percent through 2014. “Software will never
At yesterday’s “Back to the Mac” event, Steve Jobs offered a sneak peak at the latest version of OS X, codenamed “Lion.” Among the OS’s new features is a Mac
Apple’s restrictions for its iOS App Store have been the subject of much discussion. So what will be allowed in the newly announced Mac App Store? Here are some highlights
Node.js allows developers to build networked applications in JavaScript outside the browser, and it’s being used by thousands of developers. Why? Developer Guillermo Rauch explains, “Most web developers are already
Sales of BlackBerry smartphones are down 25 percent this year, and RIM’s poor app store is getting a lot of the blame. “It’s horrible,” says Terry Hughes of developer Widality.