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The cross platform OpenXava is an AJAX Java framework for rapid development, offered via a GNU Lesser General Public License, that gives programmers an opportunity to establish, define, classify, and
Shannon entropy is based on the average probability that a given string of bits will occur in a particular type of digital file. In a general-purpose communications system, that’s the
Microsoft spokesman Brandon LeBlanc announced that “Starting at 12:00 a.m. on October 18 in New Zealand (4:00 a.m. October 17 in Redmond, Wash.), Windows 8.1 will begin rolling out worldwide
Mobile developers will soon be able to send push notifications to prod user behavior through Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon is expected to make notifications cross platform and developers will
Microsoft has developed a big data framework called REEF (Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework) and plans to open source it next month. The framework sits on top of Hadoop’s new YARN
You’ve probably heard of Bitcoin – the anonymous electronic currency-alternative that’s paving the way toward a new way of looking at money. While Bitcoin is gradually meandering toward broader acceptance,
Getting Started Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is Amazon’s web service offering for compute services. Its offerings can be leveraged by developers who work on any popular platform. Today, we
Developers can now join Microsoft’s App Builder Rewards program and earn credits for taking online classes, attending developer conferences, and more, that may be redeemed for games, upgrades and account
In only one year, IBM has moved all the way up the Gartner ladder from the Niche Quadrant to the Leaders Quadrant for mobile app dev platforms due to strong
Google has announced several improvements to its cloud computing platform that enhance the services available to developers. For example, Google Compute Engine now has Layer 3 load balancing, which intelligently
Startup Cloud 66 isn’t exactly a platform as a service (PaaS), but it does some of the same things as a PaaS. It analyzes code stored in GitHub and determines
Whenever a multibillionaire like Jeff Bezos pulls out his personal checkbook and shells out $250 million of his own money for a newspaper, you have to wonder what was going
On August 6, BMC acquired an app distribution company called Partnerpedia. Although the deal is only a couple of days old, BMC has already rebranded Partnerpedia’s enterprise app store as
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley reports that forces within Microsoft are pushing the company’s software development teams towards cloud computing. James Larus, the head of OS research for Microsoft Research, started
In a previous blog post I sounded the alarm about the insider threat. Someone in your IT organization must have the root passwords, the argument goes, so what’s to keep
The transition from waterfall development to agile methodology has not been smooth for everyone, and reports of agile adoption are often exaggerated. Businesses have been quick to see the potential
Over the past couple weeks in July Heroku has been taking action to improve the overall customer experience. How? By using support data to identify high impact issues in the
By some estimates, machine-to-machine (M2M) interactions are one of the fastest growing areas of technology. These types of interactions are a key part of the coming “Internet of Things,” a
A new report from the market researchers forecasts continued “hyper-growth” for tablets. The company believes tablet sales will grow an average 25.6 percent over the next four years, reaching 381.23
To run and operate any application, computing power is needed, that includes hardware and software (including operating system, platform software, and application code). Traditionally, acquiring hardware and software (operating system
Market research firm Gartner is sounding the alarm about customer dissatisfaction with some cloud computing services. Specifically, enterprises are concerned about contract ambiguities related to the maintenance of data confidentiality,
The furor over CloudScaling’s acting CEO Randy Bias’s call for OpenStack to do an about-face and support Amazon’s APIs has only intensified since I called for a hypermedia-based Cloud meta-API.
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a SkyDrive cloud development feature. If you create a text file on your local PC and upload it to SkyDrive, you can open the file
After having spent more than a decade working almost exclusively with the web, I decided to branch out and try my hand at something entirely new: iPhone development. The transition
In its financial reports, Amazon doesn’t break out the numbers for its cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS). So no one outside the company really knows how much AWS
A new survey of CIOs conducted by Mobile Helix emphasizes the difficulty enterprises face in adapting their internal applications for mobile devices. Among those surveyed, 65 percent said development costs
As part of its ongoing efforts to unify its development platforms, Microsoft is rolling out a redesigned home page for the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN). The portal aims to provide
Mobile development tools have come a long way in just a few short years. Today’s tools make the process of writing apps much easier—particularly if you are interested in cross-platform
Hidden in the code of the latest iOS 7 beta release is information about some likely new features for the next iPhone. Specifically, the beta 4 includes a folder called
Following a 40-city developer tour, Salesforce.com has launched some new tools for developers. Specifically, it has released twenty open source HTML5 and CSS templates that focus on making the most
