Survey: Top Agile 'Pain Point' Is Capturing Requirements

Going Agile shifts the focus of gathering application requirements from detailed specifications to user stories, and that's the biggest obstacle to success, according to a recent survey of companies making the leap.

David I. Has His Head in the Cloud...

Software development guru David Intersimone talks to John about how the developers should react to the cloud and more.

Report: Hackers Shifting Attention to Mobile Devices

Scammers have set their sights on tablets and smartphones, and away from Windows desktops, in response to rising consumer demand for mobile devices.

Amazon Web Services Reaches Out To Developers

Amazon Web Services this week took a significant step forward in making it easier for developers to deploy its apps to the company's widely used cloud services.

Microsoft Releases Free 'Express' Version of IIS

Microsoft this week released a free version of its Internet Information Server (IIS) Web server, called IIS Express 7.5.

New IOUG MySQL Council; Dueling Conferences

Which conference should you go to?

How Facebook Does Agile

Time.com last month featured a video that provides an interesting glimpse of Facebook developers interacting during a daily Scrum meeting.

Initial Code for OpenJDK for Mac OS X Published 

Apple's decision in November to join Oracle and IBM in supporting the OpenJDK project to provide a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X bore fruit this week.

Google Dropping H.264 Codec Support in Chrome

Google announced on Tuesday that it plans to support open video codecs in its Chrome Web browser going forward, and it will drop support for the H.264 video codec.

Open Source Java ESB Upgrade Adds DevOps, Cloud Features

Mule ESB 3.1 adds new orchestration features, a new management console and new collaborative capabilities.

JRuby 1.6 RC1 Released

The JRuby community this week announced the availability the first release candidate (RC) of JRuby 1.6. RC1.

Verizon iPhone 4 Coming in February

What has long been rumored and suspected is now a fact: Verizon customers will soon be able to get their very own iPhone.

Report Cites Problems with FBI's Approach to Agile Development

Add the FBI to the list of federal government agencies that are reportedly failing to correctly implement Agile software development practices -- a move mandated by the Obama administration.

Oracle's MySQL 5.5 Release Aimed at the Web

Last month's general availability of Oracle's MySQL 5.5 is a significant release.

Chrome Up, IE Down at the End of 2010

Google's Chrome browser finished December with a worldwide market share of 10 percent of all Internet browser usage, according to Net Applications' NetMarketShare data.

Our Top 10 App Dev News Stories for 2010

Here's the top 10 most popular news stories on ADTmag.com for the last year, based on our traffic reports.

Microsoft Releases First Windows Phone 7 Sales Figures

Microsoft has revealed the first hard sales figures for Windows Phone 7.

Microsoft Opens HTML5 Labs for Developers

Microsoft today opened a test site for Web developers that shows off promising yet unstable HTML 5 code.

Oracle Not Winning Any Popularity Contests, but Might Still be Good for Java

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