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Google Updates App Engine

Google has released version 1.8.2 of its App Engine cloud development program. One of the most significant improvements in the release is an updated version of Google Plugin For Eclipse

IBM Gets Involved with Cloud Foundry

IBM has announced that it plans to be involved in the development of Cloud Foundry, an open source platform as a service project currently managed by VMware spinoff Pivotal. According

Is the Cloud Making Developers Obsolete?

The rise of cloud development platforms has seen a growing number of vendors touting “codeless” enterprise application development. Many of these tools promise to allow business employees to create new

Java Will Get New Updates for ARM

Oracle and ARM have announced that they are working together to update Java for use with ARM processors. That could make Java SE more suitable for use on some embedded

Fear the Insider Threat

When you hire an employee, especially one with a sensitive role like a system administrator, what kind of background checks do you perform? Typical organizations will check candidates’ criminal records

AppScale Launches App Inventor Cloud Appliance

AppScale has released a new “private cloud in a box” called the App Inventor Cloud Appliance. App Inventor is a Web application that simplifies mobile development. The new appliance includes

Security Breach at iOS Developer Site

Apple has sent an email to developers notifying them that its portal at developer.apple.com suffered a security breach. As a result, the company took the site offline while it investigates,

Adobe Updates PhoneGap

Adobe has released the 3.0 version of its PhoneGap cross-platform mobile development platform. The open source tool boasts several improvements, including a new plug-in architecture designed to keep your apps

Will Your Next Resume Be Written in Code?

Insurance company MetLife is taking a novel approach to recruiting development talent. The company has launched a new website that asks developers to submit their resumes in JSON. The site

Beware the Frankenstein of the Cloud

Today’s announcement that Puppet Labs acquired Cloudsmith, coupled with other recent acquisitions in the Cloud space, including IBM’s pickup of SoftLayer, CenturyLink absorbing AppFog, and Aspect Software’s deal for Voxeo

App Economy to be Worth $151 Billion by 2017

A report from the research division of AppNation holds good news for the mobile development industry. It predicts that the app economy will double in the next four years, growing

MapR M7 Comes to AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that MapR’s M7 big data platform is now available through Amazon’s cloud computing services. The M7 platform claims to improve the dependability, performance and

Getting Tangled in the Cloud

One of my clients is a large US Government agency. As with all agencies, the Government’s Cloud First initiative is pushing them to move to the Cloud. The reasoning is

Oracle Updates Developer Tools with Cloud Capabilities

Oracle has launched new versions of several important developer tools and middleware, improving their cloud computing capabilities. The newly updated software includes Oracle Cloud Application Foundation, the WebLogic application server,

Microsoft Buys InRelease

Microsoft has officially completed its acquisition of InRelease, an application lifecycle management solution formerly owned by InCycle Software. The InRelease technology is slated to enhance the functionality of Microsoft’s Team

Visual Studio 2013 Gets Better Exception Reporting

Among the many improvements in Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 is improved exception reporting. InfoQ’s Anand Narayanaswamy writes, “While Windows 8.1 adds support for capturing stack traces for exceptions

Office and Sharepoint Store Expands to 22 New Markets

Microsoft has announced that the Office and Sharepoint Store will be expanding to 22 new countries, including Australia, Canada, the UK, Japan, India, South Africa, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Ireland,

The Only Foolproof Cybersecurity Solution

There’s an old IT joke that the only truly secure computer is broken, powered down, disconnected from the network, in a locked room, with no key. And as with all

Windows 8.1 RTM Scheduled for August

Microsoft has officially announced that Windows 8.1 (formerly codenamed “Blue”) will be released to manufacturers in late August. Citing unnamed sources, ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley says it is likely that