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Canonical has officially released Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. The latest release of the Linux distribution includes several new features, but one of the most interesting from an application development standpoint
For more than a decade, object-oriented programming has been the norm. But Larry O’Brien writes that is beginning to change as functional programming approaches become more common. Functional programming “will
Is studying philosophy academic? After all, we don’t go anywhere by studying it. (See Sidebar 1. Classical Philosophy vs. Analytic Philosophy for a full discussion of philosophy’s limitations.) I think
At the SQL PASS Summit on October 12, Microsoft announced two new projects which it will undertake in cooperation with Hortonworks. The two companies plan to release a preview of
In addition to rolling out its long-awaited iPad app, Facebook this week extended Facebook Platform for mobile. Users of the social network’s iOS apps or its mobile Web site will
On Tuesday, Google announced that it was changing the name for its Google Storage for Developers to Google Cloud Storage and that it was lowering the prices for the service.
Many enterprises are choosing to build their internal applications on top of an open source stack. But this article suggests that those who choose to do so should keep in
Many — if not most — organizations with extensive in-house IT and a significant percentage of home-grown apps have followed a progression that has led them to a big mess:
A new report from market research firm Gartner says that platform-as-a-service (PaaS) revenues could reach $707.4 million this year, a jump up from last year’s $512.4 million. Although PaaS is
Motorola has launched version 1.0 of RhoElements, an enterprise mobile app development framework. RhoElements supports the latest HTML5 standards, plus JavaScript and CSS, so that application developers can create cross-platform
Google has filled a hole in its cloud development platform by announcing a new relational database called Google Cloud SQL. Based on the open source MySQL code, Cloud SQL will
Analysts at Berg Insight are predicting that mobile app downloads will grow 56.6 percent between 2010 and 2015, to hit 98 billion in 2015. They also believe app store revenues
On day four of the Oracle OpenWorld conference, CEO Larry Ellison took the wraps off the “Oracle Public Cloud.” Ellison, who had famously derided cloud computing in the past, talked
A new study by the Standish Group finds that 37 percent of software development projects are “successful” — meaning on-time, in-budget and accepted by end users. While that may seem
Like Web 2.0, the innovation involved in Enterprise Architecture (EA) is more about improving how we use what we already have than inventing something entirely new. While some very specific
Among the information that Microsoft deluged on developers at the BUILD conference are some details about its Roslyn project. Rosyln is an attempt to re-architect the C# and VB compilers
After debuting the iPhone 4S yesterday, Apple also seeded the iOS 5 Gold Master to developers. Unlike earlier versions of the update, this one is not available as an over-the-air
On the first day of its JavaOne conference, Oracle gave the attendees a preview of its plans for versions 8 and 9 of Java. Java 8, due for release in
At the Surge conference in Baltimore, developers complained about Amazon’s cloud computing services, but agreed that they are still better than the alternative. Andy Parsons, CTO for startup Bookish, complained
Adobe has announced that it will purchase Nitobi, the startup behind the PhoneGap open source mobile development project. The two companies say they will donate the PhoneGap code to the
According to NetApplications statistics for September, 54.65 percent of mobile Web traffic comes from iOS devices. That figure is somewhat surprising because although the iPad dominates the tablet market, more
The quest to bring developers and operational people closer together in our Web-centric and increasingly cloud-centric world has created numerous innovations over the years. Many of those innovations, such as
A new survey of UK-based IT pros finds that 71 percent of those surveyed believe that self-taught developers are as skilled as those with degrees. In addition, 45 percent said
Mobile analytics firm Flurry has just released a new report that analyzes when end users are most likely to be using apps. As with TV, mobile app usage is highest
Adobe has recommended that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) adopt two new features for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) standard. The first, the CSS Regions module, allows text to
In an attempt to generate more developer interest in its Playbook tablet, RIM has announced that the Playbook will now support Android apps. However, the Playbook won’t be able to
Samsung has announced that it will work with Intel on a new open source mobile operating system called “Tizen” that will offer broad support for HTML5. The Linux Foundation will
When it comes to the discussion of whether to create HTML5 or native apps, most enterprise software vendors seem to have arrived at the same answer: both. For example, Salesforce.com
A protocol buffer is the simplest and most efficient way to manage structured data, largely because of its built-in support for serializing messages. The types of messages a protocol buffer
In many enterprise IT departments, the developers want to roll out new changes quickly, while the operations people want to go more slowly to ensure reliability. One way to bridge
