Over the past two years, Facebook’s “HipHop for PHP” has reduced CPU usage on the company’s Web servers by an average of 50 percent. “The project has had a tremendous
In a recent study by Computer Economics, 33 percent of companies surveyed said that they were currently outsourcing application development. That’s about a 20 percent drop from the more than
Cloud computing heavyweight Salesforce.com has taken the wraps off a new tool it calls the “Visual Process Manager.” The Visual Process Manager lets users design business processes using flowchart elements,
Flash gets a lot of bad press as a risky technology, but Mike Bailey, a senior security analyst with Foreground Security, says that a big part of the problem is
In what’s being seen as a move to compete more directly with Microsoft, Google may open an app store targeted at business customers as early as March. The new site
Between 2007 and 2009, the Second Life userbase grew dramatically. Drawing from experience working for the company, Ian Wilkes offers developers advice on how to create Web apps that are
As Microsoft moves into the cloud computing space with Windows Azure, many observers are wondering how market share will fall out among the big players. In the meantime, several small
Do developers agree with Apple’s Scott Forstall that the iPad is a “whole ‘nother gold rush for developers?? The Wall Street Journal talked to execs from Pandora, Flixter, Snapture, ShopSavvy,
While plenty of developers have turned in bugs in Google Chrome for free, Google is upping the ante. Those who spot security holes in either the browser or the new