Recently, many more companies have begun offering prizes for developers that overcome particularly tricky software challenges. They do this for a variety of reasons: to raise awareness of the company
In the beginning, Microsoft’s cloud computing project was called “Red Dog” and had a team of 150 people. Now the renamed Windows Azure team is 1,200 strong and growing. The
According to former IronRuby developer, Jimmy Schementi, Microsoft now has just one half-time programmer working on IronRuby. Schementi himself quit after his manager asked him “What else would you want
Microsoft’s Amitabh Srivastava says Azure surpasses other cloud platforms because it has targeted developers from the very beginning. “We support any language and multiple frameworks. We provide a rich ecosystem
Short for Building Security In Maturity Model, BSIMM is a research project documenting the actual secure development practices used at large companies like Adobe, Bank of America, Capital One, EMC,
?Jez Humble, a product manager at ThoughtWorks Studios, is advocating for a new development methodology called “continuous delivery.” While traditional agile development methods can improve the speed of software development
In a recent blog post, Google’s Anthony Laforge announced, “Running under ideal conditions, we will be looking to release a new stable version about once every six weeks, roughly twice
In the past, Novell’s Mono Tools for Visual Studio only supported the company’s own Linux distribution, SUSE. However, recent releases have added support for RedHat, and now version 2.0 makes
According to online job board Dice, U.S. demand for developers with Java/J2EE skills has become particularly strong, with 14,000 job postings nationwide. Employers are also looking for programmers with C#,