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If you’re an application developer working on Android apps with the Java-based SDK, you’ll find plenty of documentation. If you want to work at the platform level, you’ll find much
At the EclipseCon conference, Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse’s executive director, unveiled a few details about the summer release of Eclipse SDK 4.0 (e4). He said the new platform will offer a
This is a continuation of my previous article about RESTful web services, “There is REST for the Weary Developer.” This article explains a proof of concept for implementing a REST
At EclipseCon 2010 in Santa Clara, CA, Red Hat announced the available of two new products. The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.0 features an updated enterprise services bus with enhanced
The new iPad will begin flying off the shelves next Saturday, but consumers won’t have that many new apps to play with on their new toys. That’s because Apple didn’t
SAN FRANCISCO — With 13.5 million members and 53,000 missionaries in 160 countries, the Mormon Church has one of the largest and most complex IT systems in the world. In
In this white paper, InformationWeek covers the basics of application performance management (APM) and suggests 10 questions to ask that will help determine whether an APM solution will deliver true
Microsoft has announced the released of a new software development kit for the Open Data Protocol. According to the company, the new SDK will “make it easier for developers to
Apple Now Taking Devs’ iPad App Store SubmissionsGet your app in this week if you want it to be available on launch day. Apple has informed developers that they have
Google has released a new open-source security scanner named “Skipfish” that detects code which is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, SQL and XML injection, and other types of attacks. Developers already
Developers looking for better visibility into the lifecycles of their Microsoft and .NET applications might want to check out dynaTrace 3.2, new software from dynaTrace, an application performance management vendor.
Part 1 of this series started a simple project to show how you can use Adobe Flash Builder 4 to rapidly develop a SOAP-powered map application called TerraClient. Using the
Speaking at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Universal Parallel Computing Research Center, Microsoft kernel architect Dave Probert said that today’s operating systems aren’t doing a good job with new
Wired reports that several iPhone app sites, including TheiPhoneAppReview.com and AppCraver.com are accepting fees from developers. In most cases, the sites charge a fee for “expediting” the review, but some
Adobe Flash Builder (formerly Adobe Flex Builder) introduces a powerful new set of tools for using remote data services. Of particular interest is Flash Builder’s support for SOAP (Simple Object
On Wednesday, a federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted two former computer programmers–Jerome O’Hara, 47, and George Perez, 44—who worked for Bernard Madoff’s firm. In a written statement, the U.S.
According to recently published research, Americans pay about $1.09 per mobile app, while people in other parts of the world pay less than 20 cents. As a result, Americans account
It used to be that apps went live on the App Store whenever they were approved by Apple—and it was anyone’s guess when that might be. Now, not only has
According to the latest research, the market for enterprise software will grow faster in China than anywhere else–14.6 percent per year from 2008 to 2013. And despite the economic conditions,
TechNewsWorld says that developers are in fact making money building apps for smartphones, and they’re doing it in several ways: Selling apps directly to consumers Licensing apps to resellers or
According to the latest research from Black Duck Software, 2009 was a pretty good year for mobile open-source projects. Developers started 903 new mobile open-source projects for a 39 percent
At the Mix10 conference, Microsoft unveiled a preview of Internet Explorer 9. The most notable change to the browser is greater support for HTML5, which could make it easier to
Getjar, the world’s second largest mobile app store, has just published a study that predicts that mobile application sales will grow to $17.5 billion within two years. During the same
REST, or Representational State Transfer, is a style of software architecture for accessing information on the Web. The RESTful service refers to web services as resources that use XML over
Last June, IBM began offering private cloud services for application development and testing, and now it will begin offering a public cloud option as well. Having a cloud-based infrastructure available
At its Mix 10 conference, Microsoft released free versions Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4 multimedia toolkit, both equipped with an emulator for the Windows Phone 7 OS. In
Forrester Research analyst Mike Gualtieri worries that developers are not adequately accounting for third-party services and APIs in their threat modeling of Web applications. “Developers are not adjusting,” he said.
Getting an idea from conception to implementation can be a disheartening experience in any company. I’ve seen good ideas go unrealized not so much due to resistance in the enterprise,
Would you like a free, powerful server for a year to develop an application that could make you money while possibly creating a few jobs? What’s not to like, right?
Research suggests that at April’s F8 conference for Facebook developers, the company may make more user data available to third party developers. ReadWriteWeb notes, “A firehose of public Facebook user
