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I attended SIGS DATACOMM OOP 2014 last week in Munich, Germany. I passed on the German language sessions – my high school Deutsch not sufficiently wunderbar – but among the
Overview In modern application development, the framework plays an important role–without the support of a mature framework, rapid application development is quite impossible. Oracle has developed an innovative, mature and
Microsoft has released a community technology preview (CTP) for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. The new IDE includes bug fixes and improvements for Team Foundation Server, code analysis and IntelliTrace.
A new report from EvansData spotlights the growing importance of APIs to developers worldwide. The Developer Population and Demographics Study finds that there are 18.2 million software developers in the
HTML5 isn’t developers’ first choice as a mobile platform, but more people are using it as a secondary platform to reach a broader audience—at least that’s what a new report
Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator will play major part in Europe-wide project providing a cloud-based realm of services and tools for software developers to enable rapid software prototypingLondon and Edinburgh, UK –
Many companies encourage the developers they employ to contribute to open source projects, but Rackspace has just gone a step further than most. The cloud computing company announced that its
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley writes that unnamed sources have told her Microsoft changed the planned shipment date for Windows 8.1 Update 1 from March to April. In addition to bug
The Eclipse Foundation, the non-profit organization that oversees the Eclipse IDE and related projects, was first announced on Feb. 2, 2004, meaning that it has just celebrated its tenth anniversary.
HP’s 2013 Cyber Risk report finds that developers are making mistakes that result in security vulnerabilities. According to the company, 80 percent of all applications are misconfigured, which makes them
Microsoft has confirmed that Satya Nadella will be its next CEO, replacing Steve Ballmer effective immediately. A twenty-two year veteran at the company, Nadella most recently headed up Microsoft’s Cloud
Flexiant and Arrow ECS UK Deliver a Complete Cloud Services SolutionService providers now have access to a combination of Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator and leading hardware to get to market in
IBM claims that it generated more cloud revenue in 2013 than Amazon Web Services. In its latest financial statement, Amazon reported $3.72 billion in “other” revenue, which includes all AWS
Late binding is a mechanism in which the method being called upon an object is looked up by name at runtime. This mechanism was useful in Microsoft’s Component Object Model
Amazon has released its earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2013, and its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing division appears to have had a fantastic quarter. It’s hard
User authentication is employed by a large number of websites. However, the security of that authentication is often not properly implemented, making the websites an easier target for malicious hackers.
Intel has announced that it will close down AppUp, it’s little-known storefront for PC apps. The store will stop working March 11, and apps that communicated with the AppUp client
Cisco has launched a new Internet of Things (IoT) project that will bring distributed computing to its network hardware. The company calls this concept “fog computing,” and it has launched
A new Evans Data survey commissioned by Perforce found that 65 percent of the 600 software developers, managers and executives surveyed say their companies are currently using continuous delivery methodologies.
EnterpriseDB Expands its Postgres Plus Cloud Database to Support Virtual Private Clouds Following 200% Revenue Growth in 2013Enterprises gain greater security and control with virtual private clouds supported by EDB???s
Bluetooth?? Smart Technology Unveiled as the Magic Behind BeaconsIntelligent, Power-efficient Wireless Technology Makes In-store Couponing, Mobile Payments and Location-based Services a RealityKirkland, WA ??? January 28, 2014 ??? Bluetooth Smart,
In a recent Forrester Research report, 30 percent of North American enterprises claimed to have deployed private clouds, 19 percent to have deployed hosted private clouds and only 10 percent
Overview The Visual Studio team recently released an application monitoring tool called Application Insights (preview) for Visual Studio Online. If you have an Azure account with subscription for Visual Studio
In a new report titled “Software Must Enrich Your Brand: Software Is A Critical Strategic Asset, Not An Operational Nice-To-Have,” Forrester Research argues that applications are a key part of
Cloudwashing has always been one of the greatest challenges of the emerging Cloud Computing marketplace. At its core, we define Cloudwashing as saying something is Cloud when it really isn?t.
Introduction In previous articles, I have touched on installing PhoneGap on Windows and Mac OS X, as well as getting jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap working together. In this article we
Microsoft has turned in a very strong financial report for its second fiscal quarter of 2014, and a large portion of the credit goes to its Commercial segment, which sells
Salesforce.com is reaching out to .NET developers with a new group of tools related to the Microsoft platform. According to Salesforce’s Wade Wegner, the company has released new toolkits that
InfoQ has put together a good roundup of analyst opinions about the state of the platform as a service (PaaS) market. PaaS offerings appear to fill an important enterprise need,
