At the TechEd conference, Microsoft announced that it is making it easier for developers to create Web apps in the cloud by adding .NET Framework 4 support. Azure also now
Recently, the Eclipse Foundation surveyed 1,696 open source developers about their operating systems, databases, languages, and source code management systems of choice. Among operating systems used for development, Windows still
Cloud computing vendor WSO2 has announced the availability of “Stratos,” a fully hosted application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for building and deploying apps and services. The open source cloud service leverages Carbon,
AT&T’s new tiered pricing plan that charges customers for the amount of data they consume has application development pros worried that people will stop downloading bandwidth-intensive apps. Noam Bardin, chief
During the month of May, the PHP community attempted to mop up security flaws in the open-source language. Most of the 60 flaws uncovered would require local server access—in other
In the past, most companies vigorously defended their copyright protections on internally developed software. But new companies like Facebook and Twitter are turning that practice on its head as they
According to new research conducted by vendor Electric Cloud (which sells software testing automation and management products), application developers would rather do their taxes than debug their code. The study
The economic recession and the resulting need to cut costs, the growth in demand for Web 2.0 applications, the advent of the cloud, and the rise in smartphones are all
Recently, Joel Campbell, president of GIS vendor ERDAS, predicted, “Whether it’s from a constellation of small satellites or whether it’s from a blimp or some other type of airborne drone