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The latest beta version of Google’s Chrome Web browser offers two significant new HTML5 tools for developers. The first is a speech-to-text API, which gives developers the opportunity to create
During a session titled “The Secret Sauce for Application Storefronts” at the CTIA 2011 Wireless conference, Appcelerator’s Scott Schwarzhoff, GetJar’s Patrick Mork and Verizon Wireless’s Todd Murphy discussed several issues
If you want to run a legacy application in a private cloud environment, it likely won’t take any major programming changes. If you want to migrate to a public cloud,
Google says that its Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” is suitable for tablets only, and the company won’t be releasing the source code because that would allow developers to put the software
As the number of apps in all of the major app stores has ballooned, developers have struggled to stand out in the crowd. Here are some of the new marketing
Xen.org has released its Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 1.0 as part of the Xen Cloud Project. In the past, Xen has only released XCP as source code, but the new
Microsoft has begun slowly rolling out the “NoDo” update to Windows Phone 7 users. While the cut-and-paste feature included in the release has been getting a lot of attention, the
These days it can be difficult to tell the difference between Web, desktop and mobile apps. “The lines and distinctions between Web and desktop are definitely vague,” said David Intersimone
Amazon has officially opened its Appstore for Android, and the new store has quite a few features that set it apart from other app stores. For example, the Appstore offers
Jim Highsmith signed the original Agile Manifesto ten years ago last month. What does he think of agile today? “My first reflection is that ten years of Agile methods have
To read Environment variables in T-SQL, you can use the xp_cmdshell extended stored procedure in SQL Server. The following example shows how to read the %windir% environment variable, which gives
The Java SE 7 specification (aka JDK 7) has progressed to the Developer Preview milestone, well on its way to the scheduled final version release in the summer of 2011.
There is certainly no shortage of cloud services available to the average consumer, and the same goes for enterprises, but it seems as though many cloud offerings cater to one
Is the wall between development and operations beginning to break down? According to job search site Indeed, the term “devops” is turning up in more job postings. And Mike Maciag,
Eclipse is debuting a new set of tools aimed at increasing its appeal for Web developers. “Eclipse is a very successful open source community, best known for building tools for
According to a recent survey by EvansData, mobile devices are becoming much more important in the application development world. In fact, the survey found that 35 to 40 percent of
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been dominating the enterprise IT world for the past few years by promoting the idea of loosely coupled services. Cloud computing is the latest IT trend
All thirteen members of the Executive Committee for Java SE/EE have voted to approve the Jave Enterprise Edition (EE) 7 specification that was submitted by Oracle. Members of that committee
Google has added a new application statistics dashboard to the Android Market Developer Console that should give developers more insight into the audience for their apps. The dashboard displays each
The Unified Testing Initiative (UTI) is a non-profit organization focused on mobile application quality, and its members include AT&T, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Oracle, Orange, Samsung and Vodafone. The group has
Despite the number of job postings for “software architects,” Craig Larmon believes that “Architecture is a bad metaphor. We don’t construct our software like a building, we grow it like
In the movie The Social Network, potential Facebook interns were asked “If you were required to write code after becoming intoxicated, could you do it?” Whether or not it actually
On January 7, 2011, Apple launched its Mac App Store with about 1,000 apps. Since then, the store has swelled to pass 4,000 apps, even as developers continue to express
Developers looking for an alternative to Oracle-owned MySQL have a new option. Drizzle, an open-source fork of MySQL has reached the GA release stage. Because Drizzle is based on MySQL
Google has plenty of Android-related legal troubles in its lawsuit with Oracle, but the current lawsuit not Android’s only potential problem. Google’s handling of Linux code also raises issues. That’s
For years, tools in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) space were proprietary, but that has changed rapidly with the explosive growth of open source technologies. Indeed, some people (such as
For her PhD research project, Angela Martin investigated the way that agile development methodologies impacted the working relationships between developers and their customers–“Not how people think it should have worked,
Microsoft has announced the availability of the second beta for its Visual Studio LightSwitch application development tool. According to Microsoft’s Dave Mendlen, LightSwitch “extracts away code and allows you to
In tests conducted by The Register and outside developers, Web apps performed about two and a half times slower when launched from the iPhone or iPad home screen than when
Massachusetts-based application analytics firm Localytics has released a new report which reveals some surprising and somewhat contradictory statistics about mobile app users. The firm found that 26 percent of those
