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Even though it’s unlikely the Department of Defense (DoD) read my new book before putting together their plan, I can at least say it’s an example of great minds thinking
Netflix relies heavily on cloud computing, specifically on Amazon Web Services, and it’s always looking for ways to improve the technology that supports its on-demand video service. To that end,
In one of the most ironic news stories of the week, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has taken its National Vulnerability Database (NVD) website offline because
The last week or so has been a busy one in the ongoing Cyberwar. China is pushing back against the US, blaming Cyberattacks coming from a particular office building in
Is JavaScript the most popular programming language? It’s definitely the most common language used in GitHub projects, but the curators of the popular programming language indexes say that’s not enough
Microsoft is so eager to grow its collection of apps for Windows and Windows Phone that it’s willing to pay $100 per app. Under the company’s new “Keep the Cash”
This morning, tickets for Google’s annual I/O developer conference went on sale, and as in year’s past, the tickets sold out in less than an hour. In previous years, Google
A new survey from Bite Interactive found that a majority of smartphone users prefer native mobile applications to HTML5 apps. More specifically, 66 percent of iPhone users and 63 percent
If a building has twenty exterior doors and you lock nineteen of them, does that make you 95% secure? We call this question the “20 doors” problem. The answer: of
Facebook has announced that this spring it plans to hold three developer events called “Mobile DevCon 2013” that will focus on mobile development. The first event will take place in
Amazon Web Services has announced that its Elastic Beanstalk cloud development platform now supports Node.js. According to the company, the change will allow developers who use Node.js to focus on
Over the weekend, many enterprises and open source projects were temporarily unable to access their code when code-sharing site GitHub experienced downtime. Both Saturday and Sunday, the service reported “major
Part 1 of this two-part series explained automated acceptance testing for Java Web applications using using JBehave, Thucydides and Selenium 2/Webdriver. This final installment demonstrates how to start implementing some
Boston (the hardware vendor, not the city) wants to make it easier for enterprises to use its microservers, which run on ARM-based chips instead of x86 processors. To that end,
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has recently announced price cuts on many of its cloud computing services, and now it’s continuing the trend by slashing charges for its DynamoDB NoSQL database
If current trends continue, many enterprise applications will one day be moving to cloud computing environments, even if they aren’t in the cloud already. InfoWorld’s Andrew C. Oliver offers twelve
Two of the most significant trends in IT — mobile and cloud computing — are pushing enterprise developers toward Agile software development. Thanks to mobile and cloud-based apps, end users
A new infographic from Wix indicates that the app economy has made life better for developers. Although developers have traditionally worked long hours, Wix says app makers work an average
Market research firm Gartner has released a new report that predicts growth in enterprise software budgets over the next two years. According to the survey, companies are planning to spend
The suspense has been overwhelming. Since I began writing for this blog, I’ve been talking about the Agile Architecture Revolution. Not to be confused with Agile methodologies like Scrum, I
Mobile fragmentation isn’t a new topic, but a new report from Flurry demonstrates how pervasive the problem has become within the mobile development industry. According to the firm, developers who
Microsoft has released Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, a new collection of tools designed to simplify the process of creating applications for Office 2013, Office 365 and SharePoint
TechRepublic has released the results of a new survey about enterprise use of software as a service (SaaS). The overwhelming majority of those surveyed said they were happy with their
For the first time, sell-out international Java conference Devoxx takes place in London on 26-27 March 2013.The largest Java/JVM community conference in the world, Devoxx is professionally run ???by developers
SpringSource has released version 1.0 of Spring for Apache Hadoop. It integrates the Spring Java application development framework with Hadoop, the popular open source tool for big data processing and
The CloudBees platform as a service (PaaS) has announced new capabilities that make its cloud development platform even more flexible. Developers who use the CloudBees PaaS for development work can
Just in case your head wasn’t in the clouds last week, you may have missed this story: the Microsoft Azure Cloud went down for hours, ostensibly as a result of
The market researchers at IDC are predicting that the hosted private cloud (HPC) services industry will be worth more than $24 billion by 2016 — a compound annual growth rate
Cloud Sherpas has released Ferris, a new open source Python framework that aims to make it easier to create custom applications for Google App Engine. “What Ferris does is it
VersionOne has released the results of a new survey which questioned 4,048 software developers about agile software development. They found that 83 percent of those surveyed planned to use agile
