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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
Companies that rely on cloud computing services provided by Amazon and Heroku received a very unwelcome present on Christmas Eve. Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) infrastructure as a service and
What trends should we expect to see next year in the cloud computing industry? Here’s a brief overview of what some experts have to say: Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale:
Anybody who has worked with WSDL-based Web Services knows that the loose coupling they promised was a challenge to achieve. One silver lining around this cloud big-vendor SOA was the
With iOS 6, Apple introduced a new app called Passbook. The feature collects coupons, tickets, boarding passes, electronic gift cards and similar items and then sends the iOS user reminders
Amazon Web Services has announced that it is adding a new instance to its Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) services. It now offers an instance that includes 35 EC2 Compute Units
According to a new report from mobile analytics provider Distimo, Google Play sales are rising quickly, but Apple’s App Store is still number one. In the last four months, Google
Platform as a service (PaaS) vendor AppFog is cutting the price for its lowest-tier paid cloud computing offering by 50 percent. The company still offers a free service with 2GB
In this article, Datamation’s Eric Spiegel recounts a time when he had a Scrooge for a boss. The manager first approved holiday vacation time, then forced the entire development team
According to a new report from market research firm IDC, the application development and deployment (AD&D) software market will likely generate $80.6 billion in revenue this year. That’s a 3.7
Hello,I have submitted a tip “String Literals and Values with Backslash Escape Character in C# and C++CLI” that has a table in the text. The table was not properly formatted
Anybody with even a vague understanding of Cloud Computing knows it comes in three basic flavors: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). If you press a general audience to
As part of the cloud computing demonstrations it held during Dell World 2012, Dell showed off a new platform as a service (PaaS) it calls Project Fast Paas. Part of
Which was the top grossing iOS app of 2012? According to Apple it was Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North. The company has posted its annual rundown of the
When Apple first released iOS 6, the update lacked a noteworthy feature from iOS 5: the ability to give apps as gifts. Now, just in time for the holidays, Apple
Encryption is our primary tool for providing data confidentiality, an essential requirement for many Cloud Computing applications. However, as I discussed in the previous blog post, encryption is not a
This is a simple captcha control. It just creates a random number and shows it as image. You can play around to rotate it, give more effects to make it
According to a new Edge Strategies survey sponsored by LogMeIn, the popularity of BYOD (bring your own device) policies has spawned a new trend–BYOA, or bring your own apps. Among
