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Why Microsoft developers need a style guide

Neil McAllister — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000

I usually get some flak from readers whenever I suggest that software developers can learn lessons from Microsoft. Not everyone thinks Microsoft is a role model. Nonetheless, I maintain you'd be hard-pressed to find another company outside Redmond that thinks more seriously and deeply about the practices and processes of software development.

Appeals court denies Google bid to keep email out of Oracle trial

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:24:26 +0000

Google has failed in its latest attempt to keep a potentially damaging email out of the lawsuit Oracle filed against it over alleged Java intellectual-property violations in the Android mobile OS.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday denied Google's petition over the email, which was written by Google engineer Tim Lindholm, according to information on the court's website. The text of the court's decision was not immediately available.

Programmer personality types: 13 profiles in code

Jason Snyder — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000

To the world at large, computers are scary machines that are impossible to understand, and programmers are the mysterious geniuses who know how to manipulate them even if they are never able to fix yours for whatever reason.

5 hot specialties for software developers

Neil McAllister — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000

American businesses say they can't find enough programmers to fill their software development positions. Yet coders say they live in constant fear of their jobs being shipped overseas to outsourcing contractors. Can both be right?

12 essential programming tools for the mobile Web

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000

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When programming apps for mobile devices, choice becomes dilemma. Do you target the iPhone market at the expense of Android's rising tide? Do you go native or write code to the mobile Web?

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HTML5 and a vibrant ecosystem of libraries are making the mobile Web a compelling alternative to developing native code

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Programming Opa: Web development, reimagined

Doug Dineley — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Building a Web application today means using a variety of different software technologies, each executing in a different domain. JavaScript, HTML, and CSS in the browser; PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, or the like on the server; MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, or any of a growing list of database servers as your persistent storage back-end. With Opa, an open source Web development technology from the French company MLstate, building a Web application tomorrow could be much more straightforward -- and safer.

Here's how to solve America's developer shortage

Neil McAllister — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

If we want to rejuvenate the software development jobs market in the United States, we need to radically rethink how we deliver IT education to American students, to say nothing of how we hire IT workers. The Academy for Software Engineering, due to open its doors in New York City in fall 2012, is a step in the right direction.

Ruby on Rails 3.2 said to speed Web app development

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:15:29 +0000

Those who maintain Ruby on Rails have released a new version of their popular open-source Web application development framework, one that features a number of improvements to help developers build applications more quickly.

First released in 2004, Ruby on Rails is an open-source framework for rapidly assembling Web pages based on the Ruby scripting language. This is the first major release of the open-source package since version 3.1 was released last August.

Judge: No date for Android trial until Oracle fixes damages theory

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:24:08 +0000

It is now unclear exactly when Oracle's lawsuit against Google over alleged Java intellectual property violations in the Android mobile OS will go to trial, according to a ruling filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

How to get developers to document their code

Neil McAllister — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Finding top-notch developers to join your team is difficult enough. Finding ones who also document their code can seem like a minor miracle.

Let's ignore user-facing documentation for now. Manuals, reference guides, and online help are probably still best left to technical writers -- professionals who specialize in translating technical specs into everyday language. That kind of documentation comes later. During the software development process, however, maintaining a good body of internal-use documentation is essential.

First look: Zend's PHP developer cloud

Doug Dineley — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

When you consider the cloud, you typically imagine a realm of deployed, production applications. Zend Developer Cloud (ZDC) adds a twist: ZDC creates a place in the cloud where PHP-based applications can be developed for the cloud. No more developing locally, then deploying into the cloud -- ZDC pushes both into the ether.

If that were all it did, ZDC's utility would be questionable. However, it offers benefits that are not at first apparent, but warrant a closer look.

Apple's iOS strength prompted Objective-C language's growth in 2011

Paul Krill — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:23:54 +0000

Demonstrating continued momentum for Apple's iOS platform for mobile devices, the Objective-C language for building iOS applications bested other languages when it came to growth in popularity last year, according to monthly assessment of languages.

InfoWorld's 2012 Technology of the Year Award winners

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

The InfoWorld Test Center picks the year's best hardware, software, development tools, and cloud services

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Picking the top technologies in a wild year

Eric Knorr — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Whenever someone asks me how InfoWorld differs from other IT publications, I cite two facts off the bat: Most of our articles are written by experienced, working IT people -- and we're one of the few publications that still does real enterprise product reviews.

The year's best hardware, software, and cloud services

Doug Dineley — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Was it the philosopher George Santayana who said, "Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it?" Did he offer any hints for those of us who want to repeat the past, especially the successes? We're beyond the teary elegies of 2011 and deep into making resolutions for 2012. If we're going to stand half a chance of creating something great this year, it only makes sense to pause and celebrate what went right in 2011.

Mobile developers of the world, unite!

Neil McAllister — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

There's no shortage of trade organizations for computing professionals, but a new group aims to serve a segment that it claims is underrepresented: mobile app developers.

10 programming languages that could shake up IT

Jason Snyder — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Do we really need another programming language? There is certainly no shortage of choices already. Between imperative languages, functional languages, object-oriented languages, dynamic languages, compiled languages, interpreted languages, and scripting languages, no developer could ever learn all of the options available today.

Mobile app developers to get their own professional organization

Paul Krill — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Mobile application developers are set to gain an industry association that would promote their interests, enabling collaboration and product testing while offering education, cloud hosting, and governmental lobbying on their behalf.

Web standards win, Windows whimpers in 2012

Neil McAllister — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:00:00 +0000

In keeping with tradition, it's time once again to dust off my crystal ball and see what the coming year will bring for software developers. Mind you, the spirits don't always offer the clearest vision of the tech industry, but they didn't let us down too badly last time around. Let's see what they have to offer for 2012.

Best of Google 2011: Gags, Easter eggs, pranks, and games

admin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:00:00 +0000

Google spent time this year playing tricks on readers and amusing them with gags, Easter eggs, fake videos and Web pages, and, of course, the famous interactive Doodles

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