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This morning’s breaking news on CNN: Under a legal PATRIOT Act court order, Verizon has been providing American citizens’ phone call information to the National Security Agency. The information in
The same JavaScript engine that powers the web today is now available in the Heroku database.This is one more step in evolving a data platform to meet all of developers
Many developers see a lot of advantages to agile software development methodologies, but end users might be tougher to convince. Esther Schindler writes in ITworld that their objections usually fall
In order to make it easier to use its App Engine cloud computing service, Google has unveiled a new “Mobile Backend Starter.” It includes everything mobile development firms need to
The goal of Big Data analytics is to mine those valuable nuggets of truth from an immense heap of noise. If only we pile the miscellaneous data high enough and
In the past, Microsoft has taken two years between each update of its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE), but it is rushing out Visual Studio 2013 less than one
IBM is adding some devops capabilities into its SmartCloud cloud computing platform and its MobileFirst mobile development software. SmartCloud is getting new log analysis tools for its cloud analytics, application
At the O’Reilly Fluent Conference, Sarah Mei from Pivotal Labs addressed a common phenomenon on enterprise application development teams—really good developers who unexpectedly write really lousy code. According to Mei,
How quickly should software developers respond with a patch or mitigation advice when a security researcher informs them of a zero-day vulnerability? In 2010, Google said 60 days was soon
One of Amazon’s newer offerings is Amazon Glacier, a low-cost, highly durable storage service for archiving and backup. By trading off speed of access for durability, they’re able to charge
Microsoft has now revealed a few more details about the next version of Windows, version 8.1, codenamed Windows Blue. For users, the big news is that Microsoft is bringing back
With more and more enterprises launching big data projects, workers with Hadoop skills are in high demand. That raises the question, if developers want to apply for Hadoop-related jobs, what
This morning Heroku released their new platform API into public beta, turning Heroku into an extensible platform for building new and exciting services. The platform API derives from the same
Enterprise applications have a reputation for being ugly and somewhat difficult to use. But HP wants to change that perception. “Historically, most enterprise application developers start with a set of
Development tool vendor Zend has released the results of its annual survey of PHP developers. Not surprisingly, mobile development and cloud computing are on the minds of most developers this
It’s no secret that many enterprise application development projects run behind schedule and over-budget. In a lengthy article, Susan Atkinson and Gabrielle Benefield argue that the problem isn’t the fault
9to5Mac has a lengthy article with information from unnamed sources about the new look for iOS 7. They say the design will be “black, white, and flat all over.” In
Cloud computing provider Joyent is determined to catch up to industry leader Amazon Web Services (AWS). With that goal in mind, the company has introduced thirteen new server instance types
Amazon has shown that Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) can actually work, leaving all other IaaS players scrambling to compete. For its part, Salesforce.com has illustrated that Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) can be similarly successful,
InfoWorld has put together a list of “7 must-try mobile dev tools.” This isn’t a group of editor picks—instead a group of developers weighed in with their favorites. They include
Enterprise application development tool vendor Appcelerator has rolled out a new offering it calls “the only enterprise SaaS platform built from the ground up for mobile.” The Appcelerator platform includes
In today’s knowledge driven industry, a huge amount of digital information is generated, collected, processed and maintained for future use. It is one of the key activities and requirement in
In the past, Rackspace has been primarily an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) vendor, but now it’s adding features to become more attractive as a cloud development platform. Specifically, its
Atlassian has officially released Jira 6, the latest version of its bug tracking tool. The most noticeable change in the bug tracker is the revamped interface, which the company says
If you follow enterprise IT, you can’t miss SAP’s HANA in-memory database. SAP claims this product is a game changer, and they have managed to run their enterprise software on
Datamation’s Eric Spiegel writes of his past experience working for a company that decided to stop giving away free sodas and snacks. While it was a small thing, the change
I’m a big fan of DevOps. So when I read a thought-provoking blog post on why organizations shouldn’t implement DevOps, well, I had to chime in. The author of the
Although there still seems to be strong demand for developers, a new report from the TechAmerica Foundation says that the average wage for jobs in the software services sector has
Recently, numerous sources have noted strong demand and increasing salaries for developers with big data skills. For example, a McKinsey Global Institute report stated, “By 2018, the United States alone
Blackberry is currently holding its annual BlackBerry Live event in Orlando, and the first day kicked off on a high note. “I remember being right here one year ago …
