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Are you a strict code-writing machine, a DevOps programmer who needs to fool around with a lot of configuration management or a point-and-click "developer" just wanting to get quality apps out as quickly as possible via a GUI? The answer may determine which public cloud platform best fits your development needs.
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Web development tool vendor Sencha is the latest to target cross-platform app creation with one JavaScript code base.
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Our Java guy details some conference goodies, including a framework for developing programming languages, an Eclipse IDE optimizer and a source code metrics visualization plugin.
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Oracle gave a sneak peak of what's in the pipeline for the next version of Java at this week's conference in San Francisco.
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Move over, Apache Spark and other Big Data speed kings, Ryft Systems Inc. is claiming to be the new top dog for fast analytics of huge amounts of data.
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Citing a preponderance of spam and "abuse" on its dwindling platform, Google today announced it's closing the 9-year-old code repository.
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Who would have foreseen the ongoing transformation of the lowly JavaScript Web scripting language to the go-to coding choice for native mobile apps and maybe even the desktop?
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As original Apache Hadoop projects mature and graduate to commercial stewardship for further refinement, the open source Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and private companies are continually incubating and launching new open source projects to fill in the gaps in Big Data analytics.
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Microsoft released the Java SDK for Application Insights to help cloud and Web developers glean insights from Java application health and usage metrics.
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Mobile development tool specialist Telerik opened up its NativeScript framework to public beta, offering an open source JavaScript-based approach for cross-platform coding across iOS, Android and Windows with one code base.
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Both projects -- Paho 1.1 and Mosquitto 1.4 -- implement the client and broker for the OASIS Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol.
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Application Performance Management specialist is making its software analytics platform available to mobile app developers via a new, embeddable SDK
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U.K.-based startup jClarity has officially entered the crowded app performance monitoring space with the gold release this week of its flagship product, Illuminate.
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Cisco Systems Inc. announced resale partnerships with the "big three" Apache Hadoop-based software vendors: Cloudera Inc., Hortonworks Inc. and MapR Technologies Inc.
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Oracle released a major update the Java SE Development Kit (JDK 8) this week.
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The project's committers had considered seeking sponsorship from various foundations, but decided today on the ASF.
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Forget mobile devices -- now it's all about the "mobile experience" in the Windows developer ecosystem, according to a preview of Windows 10 and Universal Apps delivered at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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From Sri Lanka comes an academic report saying you probably shouldn't even bother to refactor -- if code quality is your primary concern.
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Mobile app developers failed to fix Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) vulnerabilities that were identified some five months ago, McAfee Labs said in its latest threat report.
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The venerable C programming language isn't going away, as shown by Google's open sourcing of a framework to let Big Data devs run native C code in Hadoop: MapReduce for C.