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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
If you’re a mobile developer who creates apps with multi-touch functionality, you can keep using the term “multi-touch.” So says the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which has
Recently, the open source OpenCL (Open Compute Language) has become much more popular. In fact, Evans Data Corp. says it now ranks as the second most popular HPC application development
Making good on a promise it made in August, Twitter has released the source code for Storm, a tool it acquired when it purchased social media analytics firm BackType. Described
The indicators and the research are everywhere: mobile apps are becoming the dominant force in software development. A recent Forrester Research report titled Mobile App Internet Recasts The Software And
From the ‘Mis-placed Optimism‘ files: Earlier this month I was optimistic that Google and Oracle would come to terms on Android before JavaOne 2011. After all, Larry Page CEO of
Millenial Media, an independent mobile ad network, has released a new report on ad impressions for August. Android took the top spot, accounting for 54 percent of the market. Apple’s
The developers behind the OpenStack open source cloud computing project have released a new update with more than 70 new features and improvements. Codenamed Diablo, the release includes a new
“The Cloud” may be an industry buzzword, but many companies are starting to realize that it takes work to move to the cloud. There is no magic button that you
From the ‘If You Can’t Beat Them, Go Across the Street‘ files: Among the contentious open source projects that Oracle inherited from Sun was the Hudson continuous integration server. The
When Nokia announced that it would begin selling smartphones based on Windows Phone 7, Qt developers who had created apps for Nokia’s Symbian platform wondered what would happen to their
According to a new report from Distimo, 72 percent of all App Store revenue comes from in-app purchases, an increase from 28 percent reported in June of 2010. Incredibly, only
In this article, Eric Spiegel recounts his experience of moving from his position as a software developer to becoming a project manager. One big first challenge was dealing with more
According to an unnamed source, Samsung “is planning to make Bada software an open source platform next year.” Bada is Samsung’s internally developed mobile operating system that the company puts
Adobe has announced that it will release version 11 of its Flash player and version 3 of its Air runtime in early October. Both boast better performance for 3D gaming,
Developers have had their hands on the Mango update to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system for a couple of months, and soon end users will be able to
Amidst the escalating complexity of today’s IT landscape — with cloud computing, mobility, new platforms and languages around every corner — it’s easy for IT executives to be lured off
From ‘And the winner is…‘ files: The Java Community Process (JCP) has been very busy this past year. Which is why there are some really great items on the table
A new primer on Microsoft’s website offers more details about software distribution for Windows 8. Traditional desktop apps will continue to be distributed all the ways they are today (retail
The University of Maryland has released a new report detailing the impact of the “Facebook App Economy” on the U.S. economy as a whole. According to the report, the Facebook
In a blog post, Microsoft has announced that the “Metro” side of Windows 8 (the touch-based interface that looks like Winodws Phone 7) will not support Adobe Flash or other
Steve Ballmer has a message for developers: if you want your software to be accessible to the great masses of computer users, you better keep making Windows applications. During a
You may think of time as constantly, steadily ticking away, but in reality scientists occasionally must make adjustments to earth’s clocks in order to align them with solar time. They
