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Years ago when I first learned about declarative programming, it seemed like magic. Separate your logic from your control flow, so that you can simply describe the behavior you want,
A new report from the researchers at Gartner says many organizations are spending more than they need to on enterprise application development and maintenance (ADM). In fact, the firm believes
A new survey from Chef finds that developers believe they have a lot of clout within their organizations and society as a whole. In fact, 63 percent said their occupation
There is some good news for Visual Studio enthusiasts looking to develop web applications using Node.js. The Visual Studio team (with help from the community contributors) recently released the support
Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service is offering a limited public preview for Intelligent Systems Service (ISS), a new service designed to support the Internet of Things (IoT). According to Microsoft,
Spring is a widely used framework in enterprise applications development and includes different components such as Spring ORM, Spring JDBC and more, to support various features. Spring for Apache Hadoop
Red Hat has announced that its OpenShift platform as a service now has a Marketplace that will offer additional services from other vendors. Initially, it will include offerings from Blazemeter,
On Monday, Microsoft released a developer preview of Windows Phone 8.1. Anyone who signs up as a developer (free of charge) can now download the update. The biggest change in
According to a new report from Crittercism, 42 percent of mobile apps crash more than 1 percent of the time, and 32 percent crash more than 2 percent of the
Amazon.com played an April Fool’s Day prank on me. My shaver head gave out April 1st, so I ordered a replacement on Amazon.com. I chose free shipping (without Amazon Prime,
Microsoft has announced the release of Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) 2.1 Beta. New features in the update include support for the Bottle and Flask frameworks, improved editing of
Microsoft has had plenty of disagreements with European regulators in the past, but today it has some good news: The organizations that oversee privacy protection laws in all 28 EU
Earlier this month, Pivotal announced the 1.0 release of Spring Boot, a rapid application development framework for developing Spring-based Web applications. “Spring Boot brings a coding approach that you might
IBM has announced that it will enhance its MobileFirst program for enterprises by adding a number of new services, including cloud-based mobile-as-a-service and application development services. The mobile development services
A new Evans Data Survey finds that 19.3 percent of software developers are women. That’s more than double the number of female programmers from fifteen years ago. Not surprisingly, many
On Tuesday, news broke of a major security flaw in OpenSSL, the technology that much of the Internet uses to encrypt data transfers. OpenSSL released a patch for the vulnerability,
Red Hat has announced that it now supports Google App Engine under its “bring your own subscription” plan. Red Hat allows organizations that already pay for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The IBM mainframe turns 50 years old this month, and as part of the celebration, IBM is introducing the IBM Enterprise Cloud System, which brings cloud computing to the mainframe
Now that I am Chief Evangelist at EnterpriseWeb, people occasionally ask me what a Chief Evangelist does. My answer is that I provide thought leadership and marketing. To which my
Overview The world of HTML5 hybrid app development frameworks just got hotter with the beta release of Ionic Actinium, the Ionic Framework dubbed as “Bootstrap for Native”, by the makers
Analysts from IHS are forecasting that enterprises will spend $235 billion on cloud computing by 2017. That’s a 35 percent increase over the $174 billion they believe will be spent
Among the many announcements it made at the Build developers conference, Microsoft said that it will launch a new Microsoft Azure Preview Portal. The new portal unites its Visual Studio
According to a new survey from RightScale Research, nearly all businesses—94 percent—are using some form of cloud computing. And 89 percent said they are using at least one public cloud
At its Build developer conference, Microsoft announced that it is updating Windows 8.1 with several new features aimed at enterprises. First of all, the company is making it easier to
Hortonworks has announced Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.1, the latest version of its Hadoop distribution. The update includes a number of noteworthy changes, including a Hive interactive query capability called
At this week’s Cloud Connect Summit, a panel of experts from Microsoft, Red Hat, Blue Box and HP discussed cloud computing and the nature of platform as a service (PaaS)
No, it wasn?t an April Fool?s joke: Hadoop vendor Cloudera just closed a $900 million financing round, showing the world that PowerBall isn?t the only way to crazy riches. And
A pair of new studies are calling attention to the need for better testing of mobile apps. Testing vendor Keynote released a report which found that testing is still not
Last week, Google and Amazon announced price cuts for their cloud computing services. Now Microsoft is following suit and dropping the fees for Azure. Microsoft’s prices for compute services are
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could affect software patents for years, or decades, to come. At issue is whether a company called
