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Project Management Time Analysis

This article will discuss the fourth project constraint???time. After determining that the project is profitable, accepting it, decomposing the work scope into smaller tasks and assigning responsibilities, it is necessary

IBM Adds Location, Synchronization Modules to MobileFirst

IBM is expanding its MobileFirst enterprise mobile development platform with two new modules. The first module, called Presence Insights, allows organizations to track users’ movements within a building. It’s helpful

First Steps with Vagrant

Vagrant allows you to easily manage and control multiple virtual machines. It is built on top of VirtualBox and VMWare and it provides many exciting capabilities. You can create isolated

Overview of the New Features in .NET Framework 4.6

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 is the next version of the widely popular managed runtime environment from the software giant. As of this writing, the latest stable release of Visual Studio

Chef and Microsoft Partner on Automation, DevOps

Chef and Microsoft have announced plans to work together on new automation features for Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio and Windows PowerShell DSC. In addition, Chef will provide DevOps training for

Facebook Accelerates Its Open Source Efforts

At the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit last week, James Pearce, who heads up Facebook’s open source efforts, said the company is picking up the pace on its contributions to open

Introduction to Functional Programming in Scala

Scala is a multi-paradigm programming language in the sense that it supports both object-oriented and functional paradigms. It runs on the JVM and can be installed using the instructions found

Software Bug Caused 2-Hour Google Cloud Outage

On February 18-19, Google Compute Engine went down for two hours and forty minutes. The company said that the problem, which began around 11 p.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday, resulted

Using Visual Studio to Program in AngularJS

Of all the JavaScript frameworks available today, AngularJSis probably gaining the most traction in the developer community. Given its popularity, it was about time for the Visual Studio team to

Google Releases C/C++ Map Reduce Framework

Google has announced that it will release MapReduce for C, or MR4C, under an open source license. Originally developed by Skybox Imaging, which Google purchased in 2014, the MR4C framework

Survey: 50% of Large Enterprises Use AWS

RightScale has released the results of a new survey that asked enterprises about their use of public cloud computing services. Exactly half of surveyed enterprises with more than 1,000 employees

Pivotal Releases Open Source Big Data Platform

Cloud computing provider Pivotal has announced a new Big Data Suite, which it says is the “world’s first open-sourced enterprise-class suite of big data products.” The cloud-based suite includes Pivotal

Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Smartphone Preview

Microsoft has released a Windows 10 Technical Preview that can run on some Lumia smartphones. “This is the earliest publicly available preview we’ve ever done for Windows on phones,” blogged

iOS Apps Can Now Be Twice as Big

Apple has made it possible for iOS apps to get a lot more complicated. It has increased the maximum size limit for apps in the App Store from 2GB to

Project Management Financial Analysis Primer

One of the most important parts of the project planning process is the financial analysis. The goals of this phase are to determine whether or not to take on the

Build a Python Web Crawler with Scrapy

Introduction A web crawler, also known as web spider, is an application able to scan the World Wide Web and extract information in an automatic manner. There is a huge

Google I/O 2015 to take place May 28-29

Google has announced that it will hold its highly anticipated annual development conference May 28-29, 2015, the Thursday and Friday after Memorial Day. Once again the event will be held

Marissa Mayer’s Two-Tap Rule for Mobile Development

During the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gave some unexpected mobile development advice during a panel discussion. She calls it the “two-tap rule.” Mayer biographer

JavaScript Continues to Rise in Popularity

In the latest update of the Tiobe programming language popularity index, JavaScript has its best ranking ever: it’s in sixth place with a 3.514 percent rating. Last month, Tiobe named