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So, you now have an Agile IT organization. Your teams are good craftsmen, and software delivery is consistent. But the rest of your organization does not seem to mesh with
Patent-holding firm Lodsys has recently gone on a spree, sending threatening letters and suing many mobile development firms. Now Google appears to be stepping in to help defend its developers.
An IDC study sponsored by Unisys found that 40 percent of the devices used to access business applications are owned by employees. However, 75 percent of businesses don’t have any
In an interview, Chris Weber, Nokia’s top executive for America, said that iOS and Android’s reliance on the app model is “outdated.” Instead, he says that Nokia’s new phones featuring
Most agile development teams work in open office environments, which improve communication, collaboration, and teamwork. However, several new studies suggest that theses layouts may actually be harmful for the developers
Earlier this year, Apple changed its policies to require all iOS apps offering subscription services to share 30 percent of that revenue with Apple. The response has been a revolt.
Photo aggregation service Trove recently ran a survey on Hacker News which polled developers about which APIs were the hardest to integrate into their projects. Facebook ranked worst with 19
In its quest to promote greener computing, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) is turning its focus on application developers. Executive director George Goodman is spearheading an effort to educate
A new Evans Data survey finds that Mac OS X has become more popular as a development environment than Linux. According to the report, 7.9 percent of developers now use
Microsoft SharePoint is one of the most widely used content management systems in the world, but it wasn’t designed with the needs of courts and lawyers in mind, according to
In my previous article, Combine jqGrid and Rails for Beautified Business Applications, I began an article series explaining how to build a rich, data-driven Rails application by adding a jQuery
The co-founders of AKF Partners, Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher, have published a new book titled Scalability Rules. It offers advice for managers, architects, developers and operations personnel who face
While many veteran programmers have skills that their younger counterparts will never need, many also say they have experience that could come in handy to today’s developers. Here’s a quick
According to consultant Benjamin Day, Agile development methodologies are changing the job of the software architect. Today’s software architect has to be a combination project manager, forward thinker and business
A new post on the Chromium blog reveals that Google is working on a new API it calls “Web Intents.” Just as Android Intents makes it easy to share data
A recent Microsoft job posting suggests a possible new future for Office: Now is the time to take Office programmability to the next level. We’re a small but strong team
In a recent IDC survey sponsored by Appcelerator, half of mobile developers said that most of their earnings come from app downloads. That’s a 9 percent decrease from the survey
As developers and managers continue to debate the best way to implement Scrum application development techniques, these tools help teams do Scrum “your way.” Acunote — This SaaS tool “doesn’t
IDC has released a new study, sponsored by Appcelerator, which finds that 25 percent of mobile development pros surveyed believe Google+ is the new trend that will have the most
Generally, developers don’t use source control from within their IDEs or put off integrating their own code with the project source control because they believe that doing otherwise is easier
Google has announced that it is conducting a series of Android Developer Labs (ADLs) to help developers convert their Android smartphone apps so that they will work on Honeycomb-based tablets.
Apple has sued Amazon over the use of the term “app store” in several countries. In the U.S. the courts’ initial decisions have largely favored Amazon, but that doesn’t appear
According to analyst Josh Martin of Strategy Analytics, if you want to make money from a mobile app, free is the way to go. Because it’s so difficult to break
One of the big draws of Amazon’s Appstore for Android is the “Free App of the Day.” Because Amazon’s developer agreement promises to pay developers 20 percent of their asking
You’ve got your Android app out there, and it’s selling like hotcakes. You’ve got the momentum, but you need more users. Now may be the time to consider internationalizing your
In a new book titled The Economics of Software Quality, authors Capers Jones and Olivier Bonsignour say that quality business applications must work on multiple platforms, across multiple countries, and
At OSCON (the O’Reilly Open Source Convention), a panel of educators praised the Android App Inventor as a great asset for introductory, college-level computer science classes. Dave Wolber from the
Because most programming languages were designed for single-chip systems, it can be very tricky to use those languages to write efficient applications for multi-core systems. In order to make that
On July 28, Oracle officially releases Java 7, the first major update for the language in five years. At least one observer has called it “the most anticipated release ever.”
Rackspace has put together a new infographic that traces the history of programming languages. It begins in 1957 with the development of Fortran and ends in 2005 with the introduction
