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Earlier this month, Lodsys, a company often described as a “patent troll,” sent threatening letters to a number of App Store developers saying that they needed to pay licensing fees
The ADO.NET Entity Framework is an extended object relational mapping (ORM) tool from Microsoft that has become increasingly popular over the past few years and is widely used these days.
New integration platform as a service (iPaaS) offerings aim to relieve the pain of SaaS and cloud integration, which has been so onerous that many organizations have pulled the plug
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol that relies on HTTP, Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) and JSON. You can use OData to expose, query and update data from
The world of application performance monitoring took a few leaps into the future this month with technology that monitors Web application performance in real time. Known as real user monitoring
JqGrid is a feature-rich data grid built with the jQuery JavaScript library. Short for “jQuery grid,” JqGrid has been around for quite a while and comes with rather extensive documentation.
Given the widespread adoption of Agile software development practices, project management leaders are struggling to redefine their roles. Many are trying to focus less on planning and controlling, and more
Each spring we make the pilgrimage to San Francisco to participate in Google I/O. As mobile developers, consultants, and authors of several books on the Android platform, we consider this
I’ve spent the majority of my career focused entirely on open source Web development, having only occasionally dabbled in .NET development. Of course, the great thing about the open source
First came SQL, then NoSQL, and now there’s another addition to the SQL nomenclature: NewSQL. The latest addition comes from the research firm The 451 Group, which published a report
Google I/O is Google’s annual developer conference. I/O 2011 promises to be another exciting event for Android developers. The conference size is fairly modest at 5,500, despite its Moscone Center
On many discussion forums frequented by developers, the question that crops up often is “if you were starting a Java Web project from scratch, what technology would you choose?” There
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 provided the ability to intercept EJB business methods by using AroundInvoke interceptors. Based on these interceptors, you can access the method name, its parameters, and its
Fans of industry trends might want to file the following under rumination or research: three megatrends are shaping the future of enterprise application development, claims Forrester principal analyst Mike Gualtieri.
Agile development processes can help teams to plan and make the process transparent to management. Planning sessions, release plans and other techniques that help Agile development teams keep their work
As companies grapple with the cloud, virtualization, and the challenge of creating or extending enterprise and mobile apps, many are turning to Agile software development. According to the 2010 application
Companies that rely on software to run their businesses have long realized that quality assurance (QA) is not just about testing, but about bringing efficiency to the overall software development
Continuous Integration (CI) is a popular concept actively exploited by Agile software development teams. The idea, originally formulated by Martin Fowler in September 2000, is simple and at the same
Does Java EE 7 need another data caching specification? Red Hat thinks so, and today submitted a new request to the Java Community Process (JCP) to push their data caching
According to posts in online forums, Microsoft has provided some PC manufacturers with its first test build of Windows 8. If this launch follows previous patterns, that means the operating
In its latest Software Development Lifecycle (SDL) Progress Report, Microsoft says it has done its part to make operating systems and browsers more secure, but third-party developers have not taken
A new survey by Evans Data Corp. found that in North America, 49 percent of application development projects finished after their deadline. That’s not as bad as in Europe, the
As companies increasingly move towards cloud computing, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings may help simplify the task of creating cloud-based custom applications. Bob Bickel, an advisor at CloudBees and chairman at eXo,
Two different market research firms–Ovum and IDC–have recently released reports which predict that Google’s Android will be the clear leader among mobile operating systems in the next four to five
The ISO steering committee for C++ has approved the final draft of the latest version of the language. That means C++ 2011 could be released later this year if ISO/IEC
This post from a security manager using a pseudonym recounts the story of an application developer asking for help on a project. “I only learned about this software development project
The Multicore Association says that it is working on developing a new set of APIs that will make it easier for developers to create applications for devices that use processors
Until recently, developers approached applications with a mindset that matched the kind of application they were working on: desktop, Web, and, more recently, smartphone or tablet. Now that the distinctions
A turnkey solution — That’s how Citrix describes its “OpenCloud” offering. Whether a business is looking to expand its current cloud program or has yet to integrate cloud-based services, the
Apple has announced that its 2011 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) will kick off on June 6 in San Francisco. The company says it will “unveil the future of iOS and
