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Many newer programming languages claim to offer higher productivity than old standbys, but hard data on that productivity can be tough to find. However, a new database of 6,000 projects
A new survey from Evans Data found that 55.4 percent of those actively involved in cloud development projects said that big data was a primary driver in their organization’s decision
In a blog post last weekI discussed how the CAP theorem prevented enterprise databases from taking advantage of the elasticity benefits of the Cloud. The problem: because the Cloud is
There is no reasonable chance of “rehabilitation.” That’s what SCO Group’s bankruptcy trustee claimed on Aug. 6 in a filing seeking to change the company’s status from Chapter 11 (reorganization)
The 2009 “SOA is Dead” meme may have turned out to be a tempest in a teapot, but there’s no question that interest in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) waned in the
Yesterday, in a moment of weakness, I managed to sit through most of a Gartner Webinar on Cloud brokerages (I know, what was I thinking?) We’re researching cloud brokerages for
You may have heard of the CAP theorem: no distributed computing system can offer partition tolerance, basic availability, and immediate consistency all at once. You can have any two of
Rally Software has announced that it will purchase Agile Advantage for an undisclosed sum. Both firms offer agile software development tools, and the two had worked together on several projects.
A new survey by comScore confirms the traditional wisdom that mobile platforms must court developers if they want to appeal to buyers. Tablet purchasers said that app selection and price
If you were to list the top half dozen overhyped, buzzy topics in IT these days, I’m sure Hadoop would make the list. Hadoop is an open source framework for
“Java is a 15 year old language,” says Waratek Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer John Matthew Holt. At the time it was developed, he points out, the computing landscape was
Remember Calvinball? From the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip, the most important rule of Calvinball is that anybody can make up new rules for Calvinball. As a result, it’s never
Writing code is easy. Getting it distributed out to the appropriate end users or servers can be a pain in the you-know-what. This is one of those places where tooling
You don’t need me to tell you that Cloud Computing is all the rage in IT shops around the world. And no wonder–the prospect of lowering costs, pay-as-you-go-pricing, and unlimited
Open source software has probablybeen the biggest driver of complex software solutions in the last decade.Access to a large variety of quality, peer-reviewed software has acceleratedproduct development, reduced product introduction
In my last blog post, I made the presumably controversial claim that Representational State Transfer (REST) wasn’t about building APIs. Rather, REST is an architectural style for building distributed hypermedia
In the years following Roy Fielding’s seminal doctoral dissertation, it appeared that Representational State Transfer (REST) was the Next Big Thing in the world of enterprise IT. REST was the
Continuous integration (CI) is the implementation of a process for continuously verifying whether a piece of software is working. CI provides developers with feedback about whether the piece of software
In a new report, Gartner predicts that cloud computing expenditures will grow 19 percent this year to top $109 billion. By 2016, the market could be worth $207 billion. However,
Unnamed sources “close to the deal” tell GigaOm that VMware and parent company EMC are planning to spin off several of cloud computing assets into a separate company. The newly
In my last blog post, I introduced the topic of this blog: The Agile Architecture Revolution. As in, architecture that is agile, not the architecture of Agile. But since this
Microsoft is continuing to invest in LightSwitch — its new development environment that’s supposed to make it super-easy to build business software. Think of LightSwitch as being a “Visual Studio
After eight long years, it’s an honor and a privilege to return to DevX. But while our hiatus from this venue had gone on far too long, ZapThink has been
The Extensible Markup Language, or XML, is big. But is it too big? And if so, should we do anything about it? The World Wide Web Consortium says that XML
No matter what language you prefer, whether it’s C/C++, Java, C#, Visual Basic or JavaScript, you are going to find lots of open source code to study and use. That’s
For a mobile application developer, the choice between Android and Apple’s iOS platform comes down to one thing: the developer’s goal for a given app. If the goal of a
The biggest difference between iOS and Android has always been simple: Apple makes its own phones, operating system and cloud back-end, and sells essentially a single model of phone and
During the keynote address at the Google I/O 2012 event, Google revealed some key new features in the next update for Android. A.k.a. Jelly Bean, Android 4.1 has improved speech-to-text
Google has unveiled a new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering called Compute Engine that will compete with similar cloud computing services from Amazon and Microsoft. At the Google I/O
As part of its quarterly earnings report, RIM announced that it will delay the launch of BlackBerry 10 yet again. The next update to RIM’s mobile operating system was promised
