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The AppFog platform as a service started out saying developers who used the service would be able to run their applications on nearly any cloud computing infrastructure, but not the
Over the weekend, The New York Times ran a lengthy piece that describes how a startup called Gild is using big data analytics to help other companies find talented developers.
At the Demo Mobile 2013 event, Raw Engineering showcased its built.io tool that aims to make it possible for business users to develop their own mobile apps. “The life of
Tickets for Apple’s 2013 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) went on sale Thursday and sold out in less than two minutes. That beat last year’s record-setting sell-out in two hours. Although
Given the dramatic and appalling events over the last few weeks, you may not have noticed a story that has similarly dramatic and appalling implications: the hacking of two Associated
Pivotal, the cloud computing spinoff created by EMC and VMware, says it plans to launch a new platform as a service offering in the fourth quarter of this year. Called
Microsoft’s Glenn Bock is leading a team that’s working on an interesting project that aims to turn C# into a scripting language. Called ScriptCS, the project allows developers to write
Apple has officially announced that this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will take place June 10-14 in San Francisco’s Moscone West conference center. Tickets will go on sale at 10AM
CA Technologies has acquired a pair of smaller companies that make application development and deployment tools. The first company, Layer 7, makes API management and security products that complement CA’s
IBM has announced that it has purchased UrbanCode, which makes tools that facilitate DevOps practices, for an undisclosed sum. UrbanCode’s primary product is application release automation (ARA) software, which simplifies
Business Insider has put together a list of the ten most important companies in cloud computing. Not surprisingly, Amazon heads the list, but some of the names are less well
According to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker, the market for enterprise software reached $342 billion in 2012, a 3.6 percent improvement over 2012. Several sub-categories within the market, including data
When I first heard the marketing for IBM’s PureSystems, I must admit I was amused. They’re calling these systems “expert systems,” but when they describe what they mean by an
According to Spotify’s Mattias Jansson, “Many parts of DevOps culture have pervaded Spotify from its early beginnings.” For example, “Backend developers deploy their code in production by themselves, with or
Market researchers say there are now more Android smartphones than iOS phones in the U.S. and worldwide, but many enterprises continue to launch iOS-only apps. For example, just this week,
Vendor EclipseSource has unveiled a new cross-platform mobile development toolkit it calls Tabris 1.0. According to the company, it’s “the first Java toolkit for the cross-platform development of native mobile
Is it true that the current generation of open source developers can’t be bothered with licensing details? Aaron Williamson, senior staff counsel at the Software Freedom Law Center conducted a
If Red Hat, Hortonworks and Mirantis have their way, it will soon be a lot easier to deploy Hadoop in OpenStack-based cloud computing environments. The three vendors are working on
It used to be that most enterprise applications had interfaces that were at best boring and at worst confusing. But there’s a new trend in enterprise application development to make
On Tuesday, Microsoft made two big announcements related to its Windows Azure cloud computing platform. First, the company is making its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) generally available. The move
An elaborate discussion on item 15 of Effective Java by Joshua Bloch – Minimizing Mutability.
Research firm Gartner is predicting that the number of mobile customer relationship management (CRM) apps available to enterprises will increase from 200 in 2012 to more than 1,200 by 2014.
The more I learn about what Amazon Web Services (AWS) has done in the Cloud Computing arena, and the better I understand how Amazon’s efforts are dramatically leaving all competitors
Veracode has published a new “State of Software Security” report, which confirms what many developers and security experts have long suspected: some programming languages are more susceptible to certain security
Even those of us who deal with technology on a daily basis fall prey to Hollywood stereotypes of techies. Perhaps the most egregious myth is the movie version of a
A conference held this week at the University of California’s Hastings College of Law in San Francisco offered some advice about privacy for the mobile development industry. Tim Wyatt, director
Based on their analysis of U.S. Labor Data, the IEEE-USA says that unemployment for software engineers fell to 2.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013, down from 2.8 percent
According to a new report from Canalys, mobile app downloads increased 11 percent in the first quarter of 2013 to reach 13.4 billion. The mobile development industry brought in $2.2
Two different sets of enterprise application development tool vendors have announced new partnerships related to continuous integration (CI). CI is an agile software development technique that involves merging developer work
Remember the tale of the Emperor’s new clothes? Weavers convince the emperor that only stupid people cannot see the cloth. The emperor proceeds to wear the invisible apparel in a
