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Will Gartner Sink PaaS?

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has hit a bit of a rough spot lately. Unlike its big brothers SaaS and IaaS, PaaS providers are looking for traction in this diverse, even fragmented market.

Heroku Deployment Now Up to 48% Faster

Platform as a service vendor Heroku has made a number of changes to its infrastructure recently, and it says those improvements have decreased median app deployment times. Speed improvements range

IBM Launches Cloud Development Tools

At its PartnerWorld Leadership Conference, IBM announced its new Power Development Platform. The cloud development platform gives partners free access to IBM Power Systems for building and testing applications. Big

Enterprise Use of Mobile Apps Skyrockets

According to a new report from Good Technology, 132 million people worldwide use their smartphones for work. The company predicts that total will climb to 174 million by the end

Visual Basic.Net Popularity Rises

Tiobe has updated its list of the most popular programming languages, and this month, one of the biggest surprises is a surge in popularity for Visual Basic.Net. VB.NET ranked as

DevOps Dominates NoSQL Deployments

When it comes to NoSQL projects, a large number of enterprises seem to be abandoning traditional IT roles and embracing DevOps instead. In a new survey, Gartner asked NoSQL users

Instrumenting Your Applications in Azure

Overview Instrumenting your application code should be one of the key Non-Functional Requirements for consideration while building applications in Azure, specifically if they are multi-tenant SaaS-based applications. Depending on the

OOP 2014: Martin Fowler’s Unexpected Pitch

I attended SIGS DATACOMM OOP 2014 last week in Munich, Germany. I passed on the German language sessions – my high school Deutsch not sufficiently wunderbar – but among the

Architectural Overview of Oracle ADF

Overview In modern application development, the framework plays an important role–without the support of a mature framework, rapid application development is quite impossible. Oracle has developed an innovative, mature and

Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 Begins Testing

Microsoft has released a community technology preview (CTP) for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. The new IDE includes bug fixes and improvements for Team Foundation Server, code analysis and IntelliTrace.

Report: HTML5 Popularity Increasing

HTML5 isn’t developers’ first choice as a mobile platform, but more people are using it as a secondary platform to reach a broader audience—at least that’s what a new report

Rackspace Encourages More Open Source Development

Many companies encourage the developers they employ to contribute to open source projects, but Rackspace has just gone a step further than most. The cloud computing company announced that its

Windows 8.1 Update Could Arrive in April

ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley writes that unnamed sources have told her Microsoft changed the planned shipment date for Windows 8.1 Update 1 from March to April. In addition to bug

The Eclipse Foundation Turns 10

The Eclipse Foundation, the non-profit organization that oversees the Eclipse IDE and related projects, was first announced on Feb. 2, 2004, meaning that it has just celebrated its tenth anniversary.

80% of Applications Are Misconfigured, Says HP

HP’s 2013 Cyber Risk report finds that developers are making mistakes that result in security vulnerabilities. According to the company, 80 percent of all applications are misconfigured, which makes them

Microsoft Names Satya Nadella as CEO

Microsoft has confirmed that Satya Nadella will be its next CEO, replacing Steve Ballmer effective immediately. A twenty-two year veteran at the company, Nadella most recently headed up Microsoft’s Cloud

IBM Claims to be the Cloud Leader

IBM claims that it generated more cloud revenue in 2013 than Amazon Web Services. In its latest financial statement, Amazon reported $3.72 billion in “other” revenue, which includes all AWS

Why We Need Extreme Late Binding

Why We Need Extreme Late Binding

Late binding is a mechanism in which the method being called upon an object is looked up by name at runtime. This mechanism was useful in Microsoft’s Component Object Model

AWS Sales Appear to Have Risen Sharply

Amazon has released its earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2013, and its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing division appears to have had a fantastic quarter. It’s hard

Tips for Ensuring Secure Web Login

User authentication is employed by a large number of websites. However, the security of that authentication is often not properly implemented, making the websites an easier target for malicious hackers.

Intel to Close AppUp Store

Intel has announced that it will close down AppUp, it’s little-known storefront for PC apps. The store will stop working March 11, and apps that communicated with the AppUp client

Cisco Launches ‘Fog Computing’ Initiative

Cisco has launched a new Internet of Things (IoT) project that will bring distributed computing to its network hardware. The company calls this concept “fog computing,” and it has launched