The DMTF is planning to create a standard vocabulary and set of application programming interfaces for cloud computing vendors. On Monday, the DMTF (formerly known as the Distributed Management Task
Should you develop for the Android platform? This article condenses all the details into a short guide. It covers: Android Programming Languages Development Tools and Setup Costs Android Devices: Features,
At the O’Reilly Open Source Conference, Google distinguished engineer Rob Pike told attendees that “industrial programming languages” like Java and C++ have become too complex. “I think these languages are
This week, Microsoft unveiled Visual Studio Scrum 1.0, an extension for Visual Studio which works with the Team Foundation Server 2010 application lifecycle management (ALM) server. “So, why a new
Forecasting which areas of IT will need workers in the future is a tricky business. But right now, signs seem to indicate that in 2015 enterprises will be looking for
At the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), Gnome Foundation executive director Stormy Peters told developers, “When it comes to Web services, we’ve gotten lazy.” She added, “A lot of people
Many enterprises face a challenge in finding developers who can work on the mission-critical applications that run on mainframes. Compuware’s Neil Richards notes, “Many of the people [in IT] don’t
Developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 now have access to some new capabilities. Microsoft has released an update for Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2010, which features four
Versions of the Google Android mobile operating system are forward-compatible, but not backward-compatible. That means that an app developed for version 1.5 will work on version 2.2, but the opposite