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The web.config alteration allows a WCF service to feed large blocks of data to Silverlight. If your initial testing of a Silverlight application worked but now you are failing on
A German district court has thrown out a case which challenged one of the basic tenets of the free and open source software (FOSS) movement: the right to modify open
Mobile analytics firm Flurry has updated its app download predictions for 2012. The company now believes iOS and Android users will download 25 billion apps this year, a 300 percent
Now that smartphones and tablets are becoming so popular, enterprises are beginning to demand applications that use touch-based interfaces. “The whole idea of touch as an interface mechanism is taking
Adobe has officially confirmed that it will stop developing Flash plug-ins for mobile devices. Instead, it will focus its efforts on supporting HTML5 and its AIR technologies. “Our future work
Security researcher Charlie Miller recently uncovered an iOS bug that could allow any app to download and run unsigned code. He told Apple about the problem, and they plan to
A new survey of SD Times readers found that 70 percent of those surveyed used some agile software development processes in their work. The most popular agile method was Scrum,
How can you tell which developers produce quality code and which need improvement? In order to answer that question, IBM has begun using a software platform from Cast that provides
The folks at RIM like to brag that their PlayBook tablet is one of the few that support Flash. But now that Adobe is canceling support for mobile Flash, where
Tiobe had predicted that November could be the month that C would overtake Java as the most popular programming languages, but it didn’t happen. Thanks in large part to the
Based on data from Robert Half Technology, Datamation says that average developer/programmer salaries in 2012 will range between $60,750 and $107,500. That’s a 5.2 percent over 2011’s numbers. Developers can
With the digitalization of the world, the data analytics function of extracting information or generating knowledge from raw data is becoming increasingly important. Parsing Weblogs to retrieve important information for
GitHub is launching a new version of its source code hosting services called “GitHub Enterprise.” The new product includes all the standard GitHub features, but it’s available as a virtual
Research firm Gartner has released its list of the “Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2012,” and mobile app stores figure prominently. According to Gartner, users will download 70 billion mobile
According to a new report from Flurry, engagement with mobile apps drops off precipitously after the first month of use. Among users who download a new app, only 38 percent
Traditionally, business software is purchased by executives and managers, not the people who will actually use it. That arrangement has led to many dissatisfied users who complain about poor interfaces.
At this week’s Ubuntu Developer Conference, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth will announce plans to put the open source operating system on smartphones and tablets. “Everyday computer users are starting to
Oracle has released a new report titled “Opportunity Calling: The Future of Mobile Communications,” which includes the results of a worldwide survey of 3,000 mobile device users. In the survey,
Hadoop, it seems, is everywhere these days. IBM, Oracle and Yahoo are among the big guns that have been supporting Hadoop for years. Recently, Microsoft joined the club by announcing
Gild, a career website for developers and engineers, has announced that it now has half a million members from more than 174 countries. The site, which launched last year, takes
Black Duck Technology is rolling out Code Sight 2.0, an update to its flagship code search product. The new release offers better performance (up to six times faster than its
OpenLogic has announced a new, extremely flexible platform as a service offering called CloudSwing. The company says it hopes to give developers the same flexibility as an infrastructure as a
Not only did Nokia show off its first Windows Phone 7-based handsets this week, it also announced that it will be giving away 25,000 of those handsets to developers. Starting
With some knowledge of asynchronous programming and callbacks, you can use Silverlight to develop applications that are bound to data retrieved from different services — services that can scale over
Oracle has officially unveiled its NoSQL database, making downloads available from its website. “It’s a distributed key/value store with built-in high availability, and it also offers users options as to
Application development tool vendor Atlassian has announced a new cloud-based service called Atlassian OnDemand. The company’s software products, including Jira, Confluence, Bonfire and GreenHopper, are available on a software as
Just last month, RIM promised to reveal the second generation operating system for its PlayBook very soon, but the company now says the OS won’t be ready until next year.
According to a new report out from Millennial Media, the Android operating system accounted for 56 percent of all impressions on mobile devices during the third quarter. However, when you
Gartner estimates that by 2013, 90 percent of Global 2000 enterprises will include open source software (OSS) as business critical elements of their IT portfolios — and by 2016, that
Developers who are writing code that extends the capabilities of cloud applications face a lot of potential pitfalls. David Taber offers a number of tips to avoid those pitfalls, including
