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Since 1998, DevX has helped people start businesses, build websites, and provide enterprise technology to people globally. Interviewing the likes of Microsoft’s co-founder, Steve Ballmer, the publication brings comprehensive, reliable, and accessible insights to the Internet.
I’ve spoken about the slippery definition of Big Data in two recent blog posts: Big Data Today, Not So Tomorrow? and The Big Data Long Tail. Since we define Big
By Leon Fayer Monitoring is a critical, but misunderstood, component of a successful web strategy. A web business with any level of sophistication is already performing some level of monitoring
In a bizarre twist, an American developer has gotten fired for outsourcing his own job to China. According to a Verizon Business Security Blog, “Bob,” a programmer at an American
A new report from market research firm Gartner predicts that worldwide revenue for mobile advertising will total $11.4 this year, up from $9.6 billion in 2012. By 2016, the industry
The GitHub coding platform has released some new statistics about its service. More than 3 million developers now use GitHub, up from 1 million in September 2011. In addition, it
Time to check the Web for some definitions: Big Data: a massive volume of both structured and unstructured data that is so large that it’s difficult to process using traditional
Computerworld editor-in-chief Scot Finnie has come out with a new article touting best practices for enterprise developers who are working on mobile apps. He encourages organizations to learn from others’
The Apache Foundation has announced that Apache Flex is no longer an incubator project and has become a top-level project (TLP). Flex is an application framework for Web and mobile
Microsoft appears to be making a new push to convince mobile developers to use its Azure cloud computing service. In a new blog post, the company’s Nick Harris reviews the
A new survey of 400 developers from Evans Data finds that on the average, cloud development reduces the time it takes to complete an application by 11.6 percent. “The bottom
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), an EU advisory body, this week warned that some of the most innovative areas of technology also represented the greatest security risks.
Recently, some critics have charged that Windows 8 sales seem to be slower than expected. Predictably, Microsoft begs to differ. Tami Reller, chief marketing officer and chief financial officer for
There has been quite a buzz over the last year surrounding the Cloud Service-Level Agreement (SLA). What should be in one, whether uptime is the central priority for an SLA,
VMware and Red Hat are engaged in a legal battle over ownership of the Vert.x open source project. Similar to Node.js, Vert.x is an application development framework that runs on
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I was recently reading the news of the Apache Foundation’s recent release of NoSQL database Cassandra version 1.2, and I ran across a description of the Cassandra Query Language (CQL),
C++ is so cool??? Just because??? It???s been around for a long time??? It can do a lot of things
For the second time in a month, the Ruby on Rails team has released critical security updates for the popular Web application framework. One flaw addressed by the patch could
Learn-to-code startup Codecademy is adding some new courses to its curriculum that will help both novice and experienced developers learn to use APIs from various Internet services in their applications.
AT&T used the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas as a forum for making a couple of developer-related announcements. First, the wireless carrier unveiled a new Call Management API,
Along with all the gadget makers and tech firms making announcements at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a slightly more surprising company—Ford. The auto maker used CES as
2012 was a great year for Apple’s App Store. The store surged passed 40 billion downloads—with about 20 billion of those occurring in the past year. December was particularly noteworthy
Just how big are Big Data anyway? There’s no fixed answer. In fact, Wikipedia for one defines Big Data as a “collection of data sets so large and complex that
Sometimes we spend so much of our day on the hot topics of IT — Cloud, Mobile, Big Data, and Social Media, to name some biggies — that we lose
What were the biggest application development stories of 2012? InfoWorld offers a brief overview: The mobile development debate shifted from iOS vs. Android to native vs. the mobile Web. Despite
As at many American universities, Stanford’s computer science (CS) department is dominated by men. But the university–and its students–are taking steps to change that. In 2009, Stanford revamped its undergraduate
Two new studies suggest that demand for agile software development skills far exceeds the supply. First, U.S. based staffing firm Yoh IT found 558,198 postings for agile development jobs but
One of the benefits of Cloud Computing that makes Clouds “Cloudy” is the location independence of its resources. When you provision a Cloud instance, you need not know or care
