Microsoft is continuing to invest in LightSwitch — its new development environment that’s supposed to make it super-easy to build business software. Think of LightSwitch as being a “Visual Studio
After eight long years, it’s an honor and a privilege to return to DevX. But while our hiatus from this venue had gone on far too long, ZapThink has been
The Extensible Markup Language, or XML, is big. But is it too big? And if so, should we do anything about it? The World Wide Web Consortium says that XML
No matter what language you prefer, whether it’s C/C++, Java, C#, Visual Basic or JavaScript, you are going to find lots of open source code to study and use. That’s
The biggest difference between iOS and Android has always been simple: Apple makes its own phones, operating system and cloud back-end, and sells essentially a single model of phone and
Google I/O, San Francisco — Google has moved the bar forward with its late-June announcement of the 10th version of Android, formally known as Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean.” Scheduled to
The odds-on source code management system (SCM) for many development teams is Subversion. That is changing. The new favorite is Git. Subversion is a popular SCM system where developers can
From the ‘Mis-placed Optimism‘ files: Earlier this month I was optimistic that Google and Oracle would come to terms on Android before JavaOne 2011. After all, Larry Page CEO of
From the ‘If You Can’t Beat Them, Go Across the Street‘ files: Among the contentious open source projects that Oracle inherited from Sun was the Hudson continuous integration server. The