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

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

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 …

Google has released version 1.1 of its Go programming language. “The most significant improvements are performance-related,” blogged Google’s Andrew Gerrand. “It is likely that your Go code will run noticeably

Microsoft has released more details about the next version of its flagship operating system, codenamed Windows Blue. The official name for the release will be Windows 8.1, and it will

In an interview with InformationWeek, Amazon’s Adam Selipsky revealed the company’s strategy for dominating cloud computing. “It’s important to have a cloud provider that has a history of lowering prices

After a couple of years of over-the-top events filled with new product announcements, Google appears to be toning down expectations for this year’s I/O development conference. Google’s Sundar Pichai told

According to ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) unit has set up a new “deep-tech” team. The group will focus on helping top developers build next-generation

On Thursday, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) brought the Application Privacy, Protection and Security (APPS) Act 2013 to the floor of the House of Representatives. The bill would require mobile development

While it’s known primarily as a chip vendor, Intel has acquired a pair of software companies, both of which are focused on API management for mobile development. The first is

Coverity has released its 2012 Coverity Scan Open Source Report, which scanned and analyzed the quality of 450 million lines of code. It looked at both open source projects and

The Agile Alliance has officially announced the schedule for Agile 2013, its annual conference, which will be held August 5-9 in Nashville, Tennessee. The agile software development event offers fifteen

Google has made two changes to its Cloud Storage service that should simplify things for developers. First, it has added an object change notification feature. This eliminates the need for

Jelastic has announced that its popular platform as a service (PaaS) will now support the NetBeans IDE. I has released a plug-in which makes it possible to interact with code

A new tool from Amazon Web Services (AWS) will make it easier for developers to build server-side applications in JavaScript and run them on Amazon’s cloud computing services. The company

Enterprise application development tool vendor Atlassian has announced version 4.2 of its Stash enterprise code repository. Stash offers Git-based code management designed to meet the needs of enterprises that don’t

The development industry is notorious for favoring younger workers over older ones, but a new study conducted by North Carolina State University calls that bias into question. In a paper

Most developers tend to dismiss Pascal and its derivative Delphi as outdated legacy programming languages that few people use any more. But Embarcadero Technologies, which purchased Delphi in 2008, says