Developers regularly complain about needing access to production servers because system administrators are too slow or because developers need to troubleshoot code. In this post, Brandt offers several reasons why
Flurry’s AppCircle program recommends apps to users based on their personal likes and disklikes. Now the company is expanding AppCircle with a new program called “AppCircle Rewards,” which lets developers
Currently, developers can use Microsoft’s existing tools, like .Net and visual studio, to write applications for the Azure cloud. However, Microsoft is also working on a project code-named “Orleans” which
It used to be that anyone could buy a Nexus One smartphone from Google’s Web site, but no one wanted to. Now, the phone can only be purchased by registered
David Cao, an organizer of the Silicon Valley Android Developers group, says “The group is very, very unhappy” with Oracle’s lawsuit against Google. Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth adds, “Oracle has significantly
This week, the Bing search engine will begin powering some Yahoo searches, and the company is finally revealing what that deal will mean for Yahoo’s developer tools. Here’s a quick
Android developers can only sell their apps to users in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States. That may
Google developer advocates Mark DeLoura and Michael Mahemoff have given a presentation in Europe in which they revealed that the company is likely to unveil a Web store for the
If Dictionary.com’s experience is any judge, iAd has been good for iPhone app developers. The company says its effective cost per thousand impressions (eCPM) for ads served within the mobile