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When the term artificial intelligence (AI) is mentioned, it is widely believed that the computers really have the ability to think. However, the truth is a little bit different –
Cloud computing heavyweight Salesforce.com is rolling out a new development platform it calls Salesforce1. The idea is to unify all of the company’s existing cloud development services—Force.com, Heroku, and ExactTarget
A new survey conducted by ResearchNow and Mobiquity finds that 58 percent of employees at mid-to-large enterprises have abandoned the mobile apps they are supposed to be using. Why? 43
At its re:Invent developer conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled a new offering called Kinesis that will provide cloud-based infrastructure for the Internet of Things. Kinesis enables real-time processing of
Not a moment after the virtual ink dried on my recent blog post pointing out that the more mature Hadoop becomes, the less of a Big Data tool it is,
As part of its plan to offer cloud-based versions of most of its software, Microsoft has announced Visual Studio Online, a suite of developers tools that runs on the Azure
Beginning next year, IBM plans to release a suite of tools that will give developers access to its Watson cognitive computing platform, which famously beat human competitors on the game
Some random thoughts from Amazon’s second Cloud conference, re:Invent, in Las Vegas. There are 9,000 attendees here, easily making it one of the largest Cloud conferences ever. But the crowd
Pivotal, the company spun off from EMC and VMware, has launched its cloud development platform, known as Pivotal One Platform. It leverages the open source Cloud Foundry PaaS in a
Next year, AMD plans to release its Berlin APUs, which will combine traditional CPUs with graphics processors (GPUs) on a single chip. To prepare for that launch, it is releasing
Tiobe has updated its Programming Community Index, and this month, C cemented its position as the most popular programming language. For some time, C and Java have been neck-and-neck in
The burgeoning Cloud marketplace generates so much noise and smoke that it’s unusual a significant event doesn’t create a hullabaloo. But that’s just what happened when IBM abruptly announced the
Since March, software development firm TechEmpower has been running benchmark tests on well-known Web application server frameworks and publishing the results. They just published the results of the seventh round
This article will discuss the build tool Apache Ant and the unit testing framework JUnit. Both of these have become an integral part of Java development and are widely used
Skytap has announced that it has updated its cloud development and deployment services to support AWS and VMware workloads. Skytap runs on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. It offers developers the chance
Among the big news in the world of Big Data is the impending release of Hadoop 2, a major refactoring of the popular Big Data processing tool. This release is
Facebook has released the source code for Presto, its interactive SQL-on-Hadoop engine, under an open source license. First introduced in June, Presto is said to average ten times faster than
How important is it for agile application development teams to have fun together? InfoQ recently collected a variety of opinions on the topic. The majority seem to concur that a
At the OpenStack Cloud Summit in Hong Kong, OpenStack Foundation Executive Director Jonathan Bryce shared some facts and statistics about the cloud computing platform’s global reach. Key takeaways included the
Developer salaries are rising again after several years of very little growth, according to the annual Dr. Dobb’s salary survey. For 2013, the average developer made $95,000, up from $90,000
We would be interested in submitting a new article for DevX that is a tip sheet from QA to developers and programmers. Here’s why we do what we do…things to
This week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two noteworthy new cloud-related offerings. First, the cloud computing platform unveiled G2 Instances, an Elastic Compute Cloud service that makes use of
Microsoft’s Windows Azure has launched a new pilot project aimed at making it easier for organizations to upload data to the cloud computing service. When companies have very large data
As the market gradually settles on a clearer definition of Big Data, and as the tools that target Big Data mature, more and more organizations are seeing the value in
As with any other activity, web or software development can be a social activity. If you are a developer or a designer, it is very likely that, at some point,
David Williams, vice president of technology at Coupa, believes the Ruby on Rails is a good fit for enterprise software. In an interview with eWeek, he explained, “For us, the
Engineers and programmers from multiple tech firms, including Google, Red Hat and Oracle, are among those working to solve the problems with the health insurance exchange website at Healthcare.gov. For
Amazon has released a developer preview of its AWS SDK for JavaScript. The tool makes it possible to write applications that can access Amazon’s cloud computing services without needing to
Back in the good (bad?) old days, developers wrote code and chucked it over the wall to QA for testing. The QA folks in turn chucked it over the wall











