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    Firm Ranks Mobile App Development Platforms

    Big corporate names like IBM, Microsoft, Adobe Systems and Salesforce dominate Gartner's new list of MADP leaders, though the smaller Kony has made the grade for the fourth year in a row.

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    DevOps Analytics Tool Offered by Big Data Specialist

    Perspica is using machine learning in its new DevOps analytics tool designed to help enterprises measure the impact of new software releases on operations.

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    Report: 'Android Is No Longer Fragmented' (That Much, Anyway)

    The many Android OS versions in use -- often cited as an impediment to mobile developers targeting the iOS rival platform -- isn't actually that bad anymore, says a new research report that indicates coders should mostly concern themselves with the KitKat, Lollipop and Marshmallow releases.

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    Eclipse-Based IoT Development Projects Launched

    Four new open source releases for building Internet of Things projects have been launched by a working group hosted at the Eclipse Foundation, known for its popular, extensible IDE for Java coding.

  • News

    Microsoft Research Modernizes C for Security, Reliability

    Microsoft Research published details on its open source Checked C project to increase the security and reliability of C code, which, despite being some 44 years old, still provides the bedrock code base for the bulk of systems software that runs today's infrastructure.

  • News

    Google Finalizes Android N APIs in New Developer Preview

    Google has just finalized the APIs for Android N -- the working name for the next release of its mobile app OS -- in its 4th Developer Preview.

  • IBM Moves Swift to the Enterprise

    A new Developer Preview of Swift 3.0 marks the next phase in the evolution of this popular open-source programming language. The growth of the Swift ecosystem among third-party developers is something of a phenomenon, and IBM appears to be leading that burgeoning pack.

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    Open Source Community Helps Shape New Swift 3.0 Developer Preview

    Apple announced Developer Preview 1 of Swift 3.0, the first major release with significant community contributions since the official programming language for building iOS mobile apps went open source last December.

  • The Agile Architect

    How To Be a Superhero Software Developer, Agile or Not

    If you've seen any trailers for movies lately, you know that superheroes are the new hotness. In a blatant rip-off of the genre, our Agile Architect describes how to have your own secret origin as a super software developer.

  • News

    Firm Seeks Overhaul of Mobile App Metrics To Improve User Experience

    Mobile app analytics firm Apteligent believes developers are focusing on the wrong metrics when it comes to improving the UX.

  • News

    Twitter Adds Real-Time Analytics to Mobile App Tool

    Twitter has added real-time analytics to its Fabric tool for tracking mobile app performance.

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    Box Focusing on the Developer Experience

    Box, the enterprise content management and collaboration platform provider, has launched a new developer Web site featuring an updated set of reference documents, quick-start guides, tutorials and sample code

  • Open Source Wins: Now What?

    While covering HPE's invitation to open source developers to contribute code to The Machine project to reinvent computing, I had the opportunity to talk with a real veteran of the Open Source Wars, who with colleagues has been having conversations where they look at one another and exclaim: "Oh my god, we won! Now what?"

  • News

    HPE Looks to Open Sourcers for Help with The Machine

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise is reaching out to open source software developers for help with its ambitious effort to rethink computing from the ground up, known as The Machine.

  • News

    Microsoft Updates Visual Studio Code, Windows App Studio

    Visual Studio Code got that terminal integration users have been asking for in the new version 1.2, while the June release of Windows App Studio now boasts a new REST API Data Source, its most requested feature.

  • News

    New 'Slim' Build Highlights jQuery 3.0 Final Release

    jQuery, the big daddy of JavaScript libraries, has been moved to version 3.0 after a 20-month development effort, featuring a new "slim" version and numerous other enhancements.

  • News

    Xamarin Updates Cross-Platform Mobile App Dev Tools

    Xamarin, the cross-platform mobile app development company that's now a Microsoft unit, updated the tooling in its standalone IDE and its Visual Studio counterpart, along with platform-specific SDKs.

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    Databricks Unveils Community Edition for Learning Spark, Security Framework

    Databricks, a commercial champion of the open source Apache Spark Big Data analytics project founded by the technology's creators, introduced a new free community edition of its Spark-based data platform along with a new security framework.

  • The 'Sunsetting' of Kenai and java.net

    Oracle's decision to shut down the java.net and kenai.com collaborative Web sites by next April has the Java community -- especially the Java EE community -- buzzing.

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    Java Still Top Language in an Increasingly Polyglot World

    The language popularity monitors at TIOBE Software say their June Programming Community Index is something of a milestone: for the first time in the history of the Index, a language needed a rating of more than 1.0 percent to be part of the top 20. What this means, TIOBE says, is that the number of real market leaders is declining.