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Create a Rails-based Excel Clone with jqGrid

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

Scalability Rules

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

Agile Turns Software Architects into Business Analysts

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

Office May Become a Programming Platform

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

App Developers Targeting Repeat Customers

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

7 Top Scrum Tools

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

Amazon Can’t Use “Appstore” Name in Germany

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

The Truth About Amazon’s Free App of the Day

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

Best Practices for Selecting Business Software

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

Android App Inventor Attracts Students to Programming

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

Oracle Releases Java 7

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.”

The Evolution of Programming Languages

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

Linux 3.0 Adds Xen Hypervisor

Now available for download, Linux 3.0 adds mostly minor changes to the open source operating system. “There are no special landmark features or incompatibilities related to the version number change,”

Agile vs. Waterfall: Use Cases and Nuances

Is it possible to have a new twist on the seemingly endless debate between advocates of Agile software development and those of the waterfall model? Some people, including Coverity’s Rutul

Microsoft Exec Bets Bloggers Will Love Mango

After Dilbert creator Scott Adams complained on his blog about his current phone, Brandon Watson, the Senior Director of development at Microsoft, offered him a deal. “I’ll send you a

How Mobile Apps Are Transforming Africa

In Africa, few people have the resources to purchase a PC — or even enough money to pay for the electricity to run one. However, a large and growing number

NoSQL Databases Reinvent the Data Store

In the old days, enterprises really only had three choices for databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL. But today, a whole host of new NoSQL databases are trading away

Android Market Adds Multiple APK Support

Fragmentation on the Android platform causes a constant headache for developers, but Google has just announced a new change that should make it easier for developers to create apps that

How to Migrate Existing Apps to the Cloud

While creating a new cloud-based app is relatively straightforward, migrating an existing app to a public or private cloud can be extremely complicated. In a recent speech, Adiascar Cisneros of

Study Finds More Developers Targeting iOS

Analytics vendor Flurry has released a new report which tracks how many of its clients are starting new projects for the iPhone, Android and the iPad. In the first quarter