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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — As the federal government pours billions of dollars into utilities and companies that promise to create an intelligent network that would provide renewable energy to billions
The iPhone SDK comes with various templates to let developers create different types of applications. Two popular application templates are – Tab Bar Application and Navigation-based Application. In reality, it
Rails founder David Heinemeier Hansson has said that they expect to unveil a release candidate of Ruby on Rails 3.0 by June 7. [login] The latest version of the development
With more than 200,000 apps in Apple’s App Store alone, good software can sometimes get lost in the crowd. However, San Francisco’s AppShow offers developers the opportunity to pitch their
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told attendees at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in Manhattan that his city is clearly superior to Silicon Valley in every way. He advised software developers
Long-time business partners Google and Adobe cosied up pretty close last week at Google’s annual developer conference in San Francisco, where Adobe unveiled its HTML5 development kit and announced that
It is always a good design practice to keep most generalized configuration settings in application configuration files (i.e., app.config or web.config) and very particular settings in external configuration files. Suppose
Although “Froyo” is a fairly minor upgrade to the Google Android mobile OS, it offers a number of new benefits for developers, particularly for those who create enterprise applications. They
MasterCard has announced the availability of an API for the creation of both desktop and mobile applications. They’ve also launched a new portal dubbed “MasterCard Labs” with a variety of
Large organizations have been using predictive analytics for some time, but those tools tend to be too expensive for smaller enterprises. That all changes with Google’s new Predictive API. The
By referencing the following two Microsoft Office DLLs and using the .NET code thereafter, you can convert a .ppt file into either an image file or an HTML file: Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.dll
In the past 18 months, Google’s Android mobile operating system has been gaining momentum, to the point where some analysts believe it will inevitably take over as the dominant player
All too often, IT professionals in general and business software development companies in particular use “temporary” bad fixes that somehow never manage to get corrected. As a result, companies produce
Last summer, Microsoft announced that it planned to allow developers to license the Outlook Personal Folders .pst file format freely. Now it has begun that process with the release of
According to officials at Google, portions of the company’s back-end infrastructure are now running applications written in Go, a cross between Python and C++. “We’re already using Go internally at
New SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe says the company is committed to agile development. “We see that the traditional waterfall model is not agile enough, not fast enough to capture
At the I/O Developers conference, Google offered an overview of the new features in Android for both users and developers. At the top of the list of changes are improved
The following C# code references the System.Management namespace to retrieve information about logical drives in a system. You just need to supply the username, password and machine name for the
Social Standards: Understanding Google’s New APIs for BuzzArs Technica dissects the social networking APIs released yesterday. Wednesday at the Google I/O developers conference, the company announced the availability of a
SAN FRANCISCO — One of the best attended sessions at Google’s developer conference here this week — judging by the crowds standing in the hallway waiting for the doors to
The official Apple iPhone SDK only works on OS X and requires programmers to use Objective-C, a little used variant of C++. But Zimusoft hopes to change that with its
SAN FRANCISCO — Will it be “Chromoid” or “Androme?” Google executives said their strategy of releasing different operating systems is playing out just fine despite the potential for confusion among
SAN FRANCISCO — With its search business and catchy TV commercials for Android phones, Google has looked mostly like a consumer company. But at its Google I/O conference here Wednesday,
The Semantic Web is a great vision that began almost ten years ago, but at this point, the failures outnumber the successes by a very large margin. In order to
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the availability of Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010. The add-on provides support for a number of Silverlight capabilities within both Visual Studio 2010 and Visual
The official release version of Linux 2.6.34 features a number of noteworthy improvements to the code. In particular, the update includes a new filesystem known as “Ceph,” which is capable
This series of articles is not just about revisiting the UML basics. It also will discuss best practices. (Go to “Useful UML Modeling: The Goldilocks Conundrum” to read part 1
Many developer teams experience conflict between their younger and their older members. In this article, Eric Spiegel argues that both groups have things they could teach the other. “Youth often
Hoping to out-do or at least keep up with the blazing speed of Google’s Chrome browser, Mozilla is prepping Firefox 4.0 to be “super-duper-fast,” noted Firefox director Mike Beltzner in
