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Looking for Work? Learn Ruby On Rails

Looking for Work? Learn Ruby On RailsBusinesses are desperate to find developers who know the Web application development framework. As Web apps become important, companies are increasingly looking to hire

Getting Started with Agile Development

Facing a backlog of 120 projects that would take approximately 13 years to complete, the development team at Scotland’s University of St. Andrews turned to agile development methodologies to help

Adobe Resumes Work on iPhone Development

Adobe had previously created Packager for iPhone, a tool that allowed developers to turn apps created with Flash into native iOS apps. However, when Apple announced a few months ago

Apple Lightens Up on App Rules

Apple has been heavily criticized for its approach to iPhone and iPad application development, but it seems to be taking some steps to smooth developer relations. The company will now

Mobile Development Tool RESTs on CouchDB

CouchOne (formerly Couchio) has announced a new mobile application development tool called “CouchMobile.” According to the company, the platform allows programmers “to write Web applications one time, scale horizontally, and

Overlooked Essentials for Optimizing Code

Blogger Walter Bright says that two activities separate programmers who write fast code from those who don’t: using a profiler and examining assembly code. [login] While most developers have been

Apple Eases App-Development Restrictions

In an attempt to mend fences with its developer community, Apple has taken two surprising steps. First, the company relaxed the restrictions which banned developers from using third-party tools to

Here Comes the Decade of the Developer

ZDNet’s Jason Hiner writes that the growth of IT made possible the productivity gains of the late 90s and early 2000s. However, now that the data centers are built and