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Google: Someday Consumers Will Pay for Ads

Five years after Google acquired Urchin Software and created Google Analytics, the company is promising new features and a growing community of partners who will help Google develop a worldwide

UML for Project Managers, Part 2: Use Case Babies

In the previous article in this series, UML for Project Managers, I discussed how the UML (Unified Modeling Language)is not just a great tool for requirements elicitation, analysis, and design,

5 Alternatives to Digg

Yes, I know it’s just me (and maybe a few million other people) but I don’t like Digg v4, and even before it was rolled out a whole bunch of

A New Role for the Business Analyst

We are entering a new era: Applications can be configured or assembled from toolkits or frameworks. How will this evolution affect business analysts (BAs) and developers? A BA typically wears

Intel Touts Sandy Bridge Processors, McAfee Plans

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel kicked off its Intel Developer Forum with several demonstrations of its next generation “Sandy Bridge” chips that will help power a new generation of the company’s

Android 2.1+ Base Jumps to 70 Percent

Developers have long complained about the number of different versions of Android in use, particularly about the number of users still on older versions. Now, the latest figures from Google

Looking for Work? Learn Ruby On Rails

Looking for Work? Learn Ruby On RailsBusinesses are desperate to find developers who know the Web application development framework. As Web apps become important, companies are increasingly looking to hire

Getting Started with Agile Development

Facing a backlog of 120 projects that would take approximately 13 years to complete, the development team at Scotland’s University of St. Andrews turned to agile development methodologies to help

10 Concerns With Google Instant

On Wednesday, Google released the much-rumored and anticipated major change to its search. Google tends to make many small algorithm changes on weekly and sometimes daily basis, but this change

Adobe Resumes Work on iPhone Development

Adobe had previously created Packager for iPhone, a tool that allowed developers to turn apps created with Flash into native iOS apps. However, when Apple announced a few months ago

Apple Lightens Up on App Rules

Apple has been heavily criticized for its approach to iPhone and iPad application development, but it seems to be taking some steps to smooth developer relations. The company will now

Overlooked Essentials for Optimizing Code

Blogger Walter Bright says that two activities separate programmers who write fast code from those who don’t: using a profiler and examining assembly code. [login] While most developers have been

Mobile Development Tool RESTs on CouchDB

CouchOne (formerly Couchio) has announced a new mobile application development tool called “CouchMobile.” According to the company, the platform allows programmers “to write Web applications one time, scale horizontally, and

Apple Eases App-Development Restrictions

In an attempt to mend fences with its developer community, Apple has taken two surprising steps. First, the company relaxed the restrictions which banned developers from using third-party tools to

Enterprises Still Struggle With Software Delays

For all the talk about cloud computing, Software as a Service (SaaS) and other so-called on-demand models, a new survey indicates many companies still employ more deliberate software distribution methods

5 Ways to Use Ajax and 5 Things to Watch Out For

Although Ajax has officially only been around since 2005 — when the term “Ajax” was coined — its history and impact stretch back to the 90s. In 1999, Microsoft introduced

Here Comes the Decade of the Developer

ZDNet’s Jason Hiner writes that the growth of IT made possible the productivity gains of the late 90s and early 2000s. However, now that the data centers are built and

Google TV Developer Platform: What to Expect

Google wants to change the way you watch TV. To that end, it will launch Google TV this fall in a partnership with Sony, and it’s already working with some

Red Hat is Still the Best Linux Server Choice

I love Ubuntu, and my wife says Mark Shuttleworth is “a nice young man,” but when it comes to enterprise servers, Red Hat is the hands-down winner and still champion.

Healthcare Adopts Virtualization, But Slowly

All of the big virtualization vendors — VMware, Citrix and Microsoft — are pushing the technology as a way to solve problems in healthcare, and more healthcare providers are trying