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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
According to Michael Scherotter, Microsoft media experience evangelist, the company plans to unveil a new Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework beta at its Mix10 conference in Las Vegas. “[The idea] is
Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and former Sun employee, now works for Google as a “Developer Advocate” for Android. In a blog, he explained that he made the move partly
The latest research from Flurry offers three interesting charts about the state of applications for smartphones. First, many more developers are creating applications for the iPhone than for Facebook, and
One month after the company offered a release candidate, Microsoft has released a final version of ASP.Net MVC 2. The tool offers a Model View Controller pattern for Web app
One of the biggest current criticisms of the iPhone is that it doesn’t allow multi-tasking with third-party apps. However, that may be about to change. The latest beta of the
In recent research, IDC found that enterprises want software pricing models that allow them to pay for what they use, but also distribute costs evenly over time. “IDC believes that
Today Google opened an “extensions gallery” for Google Wave and released a new Google Wave robots API (v2) for developers. Initial tools in the gallery include a yes/no voting gadget,
Forbes released its annual list of the world’s billionaires Thursday, and technology companies are well represented, even though Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is no longer the world’s richest person.That honor
San-Francisco-based Busted Loop has turned up a number of interesting statistics about the iPad as part of its App Slice project. Highlights include the following: Only 16,700 of the 140,000
For many years, Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) based on SQL have dominated, but that may be about to change. This week’s NoSQL Live conference in Boston highlights the advantages
If you do a little planning, it’s easy to gather information about a business’s past performance. You can easily track web site hits, retail sales, software downloads, or enrollment in
Experts say that 70 percent of security breaches occur at the application level. While Microsoft has incorporated additional security features into the .Net framework, developers continue to make mistakes. The
At the new VMWare Labs Web site a “fling” is a project in development that’s available for a “brief casual relationship” with users. Sexual innuendo aside, the site does offer
In the newly unveiled Google Apps Marketplace, users can download apps that work with Google’s cloud-based apps. The new app store currently contains 50 third-party tools that enhance Gmail, Google
According to Google, the latest version of the Android NDK should allow developers to create apps with better graphics and better overall performance. ” The NDK allows you to implement
If you’ve always wondered what a smart card is, here’s how to think about it: a smart card, used for authentication, is a mini computer that has a hardware and
In a new survey, 72 percent of organizations said they are planning to upgrade to Windows 7, and 70 percent said they were either already upgrading or would begin upgrading
Palm is hoping that a new kit for developers will lead to better apps for its Pre and Pixi smartphones. The new PDK offers richer 3D graphics for a better
Adobe Flex is the premier rich Internet application (RIA) technology in the marketplace. Because of Flex’s toolset and support, you have many options for creating your next user interface (UI).
After filing a freedom of information request related to NASA’s iPhone app, Fred von Lohmann with the EFF obtained a (previously elusive) copy of the agreement developers must sign to
In this lengthy article, Developer World examines the promise of and remaining hurdles for the new HTML standard. Specifically, it details the way the new language helps support the rich
If you’re using Apache 2.2.14 (or earlier) for your Web apps, experts recommend that you update immediately to Apache 2.2.15. That’s because the older versions contain a bug in the
Scouring data from Mitre, OWASP, SANS, OSVDB, Symantec, US-CERT and their internal research, Cenzic details the top vulnerabilities for the last quarter of 2009. The most severe vulnerabilities uncovered during
