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Notepad,the text editor included with Windows, has hardly any features anyone who writes text or computer code professionally might want. The only real format options it offers are wordwrap and
My old friend Serge Wroclawski has been working on OpenStreetMap.org (OSM) for a number of years now. He’s done this because he sees this as a worthwhile project — an
What’s new in the world of mobile Web app development? InfoQ asks Michael Mullany from Sencha Touch, Brian LeRoux from PhoneGap, Christopher Plieger from iWebKit, Chris Apers from WebApp.Net and
Vladimir Roth, developer of Aqua Globs HD for the iPhone and iPad says that 50 percent of iPad users didn’t pay for their download, even though it only cost $1.99.
In today’s world, software security is the first and foremost requirement of any customer when you are developing a new application. But you can develop a secure application by mitigating
Developers regularly complain about needing access to production servers because system administrators are too slow or because developers need to troubleshoot code. In this post, Brandt offers several reasons why
Flurry’s AppCircle program recommends apps to users based on their personal likes and disklikes. Now the company is expanding AppCircle with a new program called “AppCircle Rewards,” which lets developers
Every day, the cost of creating software and web products is decreasing. That means that the barrier to entry is decreasing and every day, more and more people are able
I wanted to focus this article on the actual cost of cloud computing. We covered different types of clouds in the previous article, “Understanding the Clouded Cloud,” but we never
Just about everybody in the technology game realizes that in order to stay viable you need to constantly be learning new stuff, be it a specific technology, a best practice
Currently, developers can use Microsoft’s existing tools, like .Net and visual studio, to write applications for the Azure cloud. However, Microsoft is also working on a project code-named “Orleans” which
It used to be that anyone could buy a Nexus One smartphone from Google’s Web site, but no one wanted to. Now, the phone can only be purchased by registered
David Cao, an organizer of the Silicon Valley Android Developers group, says “The group is very, very unhappy” with Oracle’s lawsuit against Google. Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth adds, “Oracle has significantly
SAN FRANCISCO — Augmented reality is what you get when you superimpose data over the physical world, and it’s merely cool today. But it’s already providing lots of opportunity for
I had a dream. In it, I was CEO of a large telecommunications company that was also a major broadband Internet provider and all five members of the FCC were
Android developers can only sell their apps to users in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States. That may
This week, the Bing search engine will begin powering some Yahoo searches, and the company is finally revealing what that deal will mean for Yahoo’s developer tools. Here’s a quick
Google developer advocates Mark DeLoura and Michael Mahemoff have given a presentation in Europe in which they revealed that the company is likely to unveil a Web store for the
In a bid to boost sales of UNIX software and servers, and related services, IBM introduced a small boatload of products yesterday, including its new turnkey family of application development
For someone in charge of software development, agile methods should be a process that you investigate. The movement of agile methods into the mainstream makes it imperative to delve into
The interview was going well. The interviewer was a project manager / architect. “We have identified these use cases for the project. Now what do we do?” he asked. The
What’s the Cisco CEO’s number one rule? Don’t acquire companies with a different culture, he told a roomful of CTOs at the non-profit CTO Forum at Stanford on Friday. And
In the world of computing there are words with meaning attached to them that are hard to overcome. If we were to play the word-association game and you were told
There was once such a thing as a waterfall software development cycle. Now it is largely a relic of the past, surpassed by the far more business-friendly agile software development.
If Dictionary.com’s experience is any judge, iAd has been good for iPhone app developers. The company says its effective cost per thousand impressions (eCPM) for ads served within the mobile
Recently, many more companies have begun offering prizes for developers that overcome particularly tricky software challenges. They do this for a variety of reasons: to raise awareness of the company
In the beginning, Microsoft’s cloud computing project was called “Red Dog” and had a team of 150 people. Now the renamed Windows Azure team is 1,200 strong and growing. The
Developers face numerous challenges when working on projects. Not only does technology continue to evolve over time, but there are daily challenges that must be faced when working on projects
We had privacy for three generations. Maybe four. Now, what with Facebook and Google and data mining, it’s going away again. But that’s OK. We humans did fine for thousands
When HM Revenue & Customs revealed in November 2007 that it had lost 25 million records, the profile of data breaches exploded. Since that day, we have seen countless organizations,
