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As I’ve discussed before in this blog, REST is an architectural style for building distributed hypermedia applications much more than a way to simplify APIs. Essentially, REST takes the idea
Cloud development platform Google App Engine experienced widespread downtime on Friday. At the time of writing, it wasn’t clear what was behind the outage at the popular platform as a
At Friday’s PyData conference in New York, engineers from AppNexus explained how their company is using Python for big data analysis. Python, which is known as one of the easier
Agile software development tool vendor and consultancy ThoughtWorks has published a new “radar report” that attempts to identify trends in the IT industry. The report states that a “seismic shift
Marissa Mayer has purchased her first company as chief executive of Yahoo. Her company acquired Stamped, a mobile development startup that has created a review app with some social features.
Continuity, a new startup founded by former Yahoo cloud VP Todd Papaioannou and Facebook engineer Jonathan Gray, wants to simplify Hadoop for developers. Gigaom’s Derrick Harris explains, “Rather than simply
Oracle has released a new mobile development extension for its Application Development Framework (ADF). Called ADF Mobile, the tool helps enterprise application development pros port their Java apps to iOS
Mobile analytics vendor Flurry has updated its Mobile Apps: Money, Models and Loyalty report that was first published three years ago. Since that time, average 90-day retention rates for mobile
Glassdoor.com has published a new report that compares average pay for software engineers at 15 leading tech firms. The top five included the following: Google ($128,336) Facebook ($123,626) Apple ($114,413)
Clustering has been an important tool in the IT architect’s tool belt for many years now. Put a group of servers or storage together on a LAN, add some well-planned
This is a simple command that is not used often, even by experienced database creators. So, how does it help you?Once you implement a number of changes into your table,
Pair programming can be tough for even the best developers. It can be downright daunting if you haven’t done it before, are introverted or unsure of yourself. For those of
Organizations worldwide are eyeing their existing data centers and wondering what it would take to turn them (or some part of them) into Private Clouds. Install virtualization? Check. Are we
At the Tech Ed event in Las Vegas, SAP revealed its plans to create a cloud development platform that will rely on its HANA in-memory database. So far, only one
Apple has reportedly purchased Particle, a San Francisco-based Web app development firm, for an undisclosed sum. Several of the company’s employees stayed on to work for Apple as “creative technologists”
At the Australian Information Security Association’s National Conference 2012, Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson said many enterprise application development pros don’t pay enough attention to securing their apps.
During this week’s OpenStack Summit in San Diego, several vendors plan to unveil new or expanded cloud offerings based on the open source OpenStack cloud computing platform. For example, Cloudscaling
OpenStack is an open source Cloud platform effort that brings together hundreds of contributors, primarily from large and small software vendors. Founded by Rackspace and NASA, OpenStack is now starting
In its Developer blog, RIM announced that it began accepting BlackBerry 10 apps on October 10. In order to entice would-be BlackBerry developers, it promises that apps submitted now will
In part one of this article, I discussed how REST separates two different kinds of state information: resource state and application state. Resource state is stored in the persistence layer,
In an interview, Keith Lorizio, Microsoft’s vice president for U.S. sales and marketing, laid out some of the company’s goals for Windows 8. He said Microsoft hopes to have 400
The latest update for Firefox doesn’t include a lot that’s new for end users, but it does offer some significant new improvements for developers. For starters, Firefox 16 supports more
With help from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Nokia, Adobe, HP, Opera Software and the Mozilla Foundation, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched a new website devoted to compiling
ZapThink has long bemoaned the fact that the big middleware vendors co-opted the SOA story, turning it into an excuse to sell middleware. Even though there’s a better understanding of
Microsoft has announced its acquisition of PhoneFactor, a company that specializes in providing security, including two-factor authentication, for enterprise mobile apps. “The acquisition of PhoneFactor will help Microsoft bring effective
CTIA and he Application Developer?s Alliance have published a new report called ?The Geography of the App Economy,? that seeks to quantify the impact that mobile development has on the
At a recent development conference in London, Facebook developer advocate Simon Cross answered questions related to Mark Zuckerberg’s recent criticisms of HTML5. “I think we have to separate HTML5 on
Platform as a service (PaaS) vendor CloudBees is adding a couple of new features that it hopes will help it attract more developers. This first, ClickStarts, is a “single-click tool
A new report from AppAnnie holds good news for Android developers. Revenue for Google Play apps has increase 137 percent since January. While iOS developers still tend to earn more
At the JavaOne 2012 event, Oracle’s Hasan Rizvi detailed some of the company’s upcoming plans for the Java platform. Those plans include support for Sumatra, a new project aimed at
