New study: Enterprise application teams struggle to keep up with only 39%...
According to an October 2013 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of EffectiveUI, only 39 percent of business decision makers believe their internal IT organizations have the...
View ArticleProgvember: For those who write in code, not words
“Give someone a goal and a goal-minded community, and miracles are bound to happen.” That was the thought process behind National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), according to its website. Starting...
View ArticleKids learn coding through interactive robots
By summer 2014, robots could be teaching kids as young as five years old how to code.
View ArticleWhat's new and noteworthy in Visual Studio 2013
Some productivity features and a look to the future stand out in the release of Visual Studio 2013, which will officially launch Nov. 13. Aaron Bjork, product manager at Microsoft, was not able to go...
View ArticleProjects trending on GitHub this week
Offline, Ionicons, CodePath Android Cliffnotes, Lime, and Free Programming Books
View ArticleTop 5 projects - trending on GitHub this week
Another HubSpot brainchild, Offline improves app experiences when users lose connection, automatically displaying online/offline indication. Offline has a simple UI that monitors AJAX requests for...
View ArticleBlackBerry abandons sale for new investment; CEO Thorsten Heins steps down
BlackBerry released a statement this morning announcing a plan led by Fairfax Financial Holdings to raise US$1 billion from a group of institutional investors, abandoning efforts to take itself...
View ArticlePasswords stolen in Adobe breach were encrypted, not hashed
The millions of passwords stolen by hackers in the massive breach of Adobe reported earlier this month were not stored using best practices for security, making them easier to crack.
View ArticleFinland’s half-baked dream to take back Nokia from Microsoft
Microsoft will finalize its acquisition of Nokia’s phone business in less than three weeks, but one movement hasn’t yet given up on keeping the company in Finland and stopping Microsoft from shutting...
View ArticleMicrosoft merges Windows Phone and Windows app developer accounts
Microsoft today announced a unified registration procedure for Windows Store and Windows Phone developers.
View ArticleAPI Commons allows developers to share APIs under Creative Commons licenses
The reuse of API interfaces lies in a legal gray area, and the reuse of interface patterns can result in legal risks. In 2010, Oracle accused Google of violating Oracle’s copyrights by mimicking the...
View ArticleCatch Software releases hotfix for Enterprise Tester 4.9
In this hotfix, issues related to CPU usage when synchronizing with Atlassian’s JIRA defect-tracking software were addressed to provide better performance, and the synchronization process was optimized...
View ArticleDevelopers rush to build apps in wake of Typhoon Haiyan
Geeklist is organizing further assistance after coming up with donation apps
View ArticlePivotal puts an enterprise PaaS in new offering Read more:...
Since Pivotal was spun off from VMware, taking CEO Paul Maritz with it on the way out the door, the question has been, “What exactly will Pivotal sell?” While the company has already introduced its...
View ArticleLeaked Google e-mail from 2010 reveals strategy to replace JavaScript with Dash
A leaked internal e-mail sent by Google research scientist Mark S. Miller on Nov. 16, 2010, lays out a comprehensive two-pronged strategy for the future of JavaScript. Declaring that JavaScript has...
View ArticleFoundationDB raises $17 million in Series A financing
FoundationDB, the company behind next generation database software that uniquely combines scalability and consistency, today announced that it has closed $17 million in a Series A funding round led by...
View ArticleWindows Phone developers can now integrate Facebook login APIs into apps
Credentials can now be shared across apps, easily
View ArticleDating a programmer is a double-edged sword
there are a lot of redeeming qualities about Programmers. Sure, their redeeming qualities can also be a double-edged sword, but that’s for you to decide. Read more: http://sdt.bz/66383
View ArticleFunctional programming: A sequence of FARTS
A new way of looking at functional programming is to break it down into this particular sequence http://sdt.bz/66385
View ArticleCascading 2.5 gets Lingual
Concurrent has updated its flagship, open-source project, Cascading. This Hadoop development library gives developers a way to separate their business logic from the rest of their Hadoop code. The...
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