The Top 10 pitfalls of large-scale website deployments
Your enterprise website needs an overhaul, and your development team has been asked to make it happen. Your ability to simultaneously move all four of the project pillars—technology, infrastructure,...
View ArticleAndroid-based Google Glass competitor on track for 2014 release
Created by Atheer Labs, the eyewear device is unique in that the glasses not only let you view virtual objects, but also touch and move them in 3D space. It projects a 26-inch Android tablet about 50cm...
View ArticleHTML5: Myths and misconceptions
As HTML5 becomes more popular, the misinformation surrounding this new standard grows. It has become a catchall phrase for the mobile Web, and its features and capabilities are widely misunderstood.
View ArticleExtreme automation, meet the pre-production life cycle
In the race to implement continuous—or simply faster—delivery, emphasis on the build-and-deploy side has gotten most of the press, while continuous testing has languished. Testing remains a bottleneck,...
View ArticleGoogle Dart co-creator and Mozilla ECMAScript editor on Dart, ECMAScript 6...
Google's Dart programming language looks to rewrite the rules of web development. Dart co-creator Lars Bak explains how exactly Dart is designed to improve on JavaScript, particularly in writing...
View ArticleMicrosoft releases Visual Studio 2013 Update 1
Update 1 is a minor update for Visual Studio 2013 with targeted improvements and fixes based on customer feedback. The biggest improvements are better IE9 support in several tools, along with fixes to...
View ArticleJavaScript tops programming language rankings
Since the last bi-annual RedMonk rankings, JavaScript leapfrogged Java to take the top spot, with PHP keeping its place at No. 3. Rounding out the top five, C# climbed two spots to No. 4 while Python...
View ArticleAndroid++: A native extension for Android app development in Visual Studio
Windows developers looking to build Android apps can now do so in Visual Studio, thanks to the Android++ extension.
View ArticleMicrosoft names Satya Nadella as CEO
Nadella will take over as CEO immediately, allowing outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer to retire early. Ballmer announced the news in an internal email to the company. As previously reported, Bill Gates will...
View ArticleBreaking down the new Web developer tools in Internet Explorer 11 Read more:...
Since the release of Internet Explorer 11 last October, Microsoft has pushed redesigned developer tools as a way to ensure application compatibility across browsers.
View Articlegitsh: A dedicated shell for Git commands
Users can now avoid typing Git over and over again with a new interactive shell dedicated to Git commands: gitsh. Created by Ruby on Rails development and consulting firm thoughtbot, gitsh allows users...
View ArticleA Valentine’s Day guide to targeting for mobile app developers
This Valentine’s Day, take a lesson from Cupid; he knows a thing or two about targeting. A person reached by his arrow and its sharp golden point is filled with uncontrollable desire. Cupid even sports...
View ArticleZeichick’s Take: Forget ‘Continuous Integration’—the buzzword is now...
We mustn’t accept that the trend toward accelerating the development process will magically improve software quality; indeed, we should expect the opposite. And if we are going to mitigate risk in...
View ArticleBuilding your enterprise on JavaScript is building a castle in a swamp
JavaScript is very useful, but there are four reasons why making it the foundation of your enterprise is daft
View ArticleJava SE and OpenJDK 8 land March 18
Java SE 8 and a final version of OpenJDK 8, with support for lambda expressions, are expected to be released on March 18, according to Oracle, which oversees the language and platform. The lambda...
View ArticleRollback as a quality strategy: The ‘pink slime’ of continuous delivery
Do you remember when the media exposed the use of "pink slime" as a meat additive? Organizations leveraging their unconsenting and unaware users as QA are the equivalent of the meat industry using pink...
View ArticleArnoldC, an Arnold Schwarzenegger-based programming language
Imperative programming language replaces basic keywords with one-liners from Schwarzenegger movies. Instead of typing EndMain it's YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED and instead of CallMethod it's DO IT NOW, etc.
View ArticleGit 2.0.0 released
One of the biggest changes is that “simple mode” is now the default for “git push,” which pushes only the current branch to the branch with the same name, and only when the current branch is set to...
View ArticleGoogle releases AngularJS 2.0 designs
According to Google engineering director Brad Green, AngularJS 2.0 code will be written in ECMAScript 6 and the new version of the JavaScript framework will target all major desktop and mobile...
View ArticleCeBIT 2014 puts innovative software on display, appealing to developers
CeBIT 2014 was fertile ground for B2B developers, with a focus on Big Data, IoT, enterprise cloud.
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