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A recent "why we switched to the Web" article highlights the continuing issue of how to keep Web app users engaged when there's no Internet connection and promises an upcoming "new approach" to solve the problem. In the meantime, here are some alternatives.
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By John K. Waters
Nginx Inc., the commercial provider of one of the most popular open-source Web servers, has released a new version of its namesake product with a fully supported implementation of the new HTTP/2 standard.
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As promised in February, Microsoft embraced the wildly popular React JavaScript library in Visual Studio 2015 by providing built-in support for its JSX syntax. So I took it for a spin. It works.
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Despite all the hype about smartphone apps and enterprise mobility, the latest survey from Telerik shows a surprisingly slow adoption of mobile development.
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It's great to be a developer these days, as reports continually point to strong demand, great salaries and low unemployment, and the latest quarterly report from careers site Dice.com bears that out -- except for the Web guys, that is.
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Syncfusion added a JavaScript Playground to its suite of development offerings, reflecting the company's embrace of new technologies beyond its Windows-centric roots.
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Google today announced the Google App Engine for Go is now generally available, giving developers the option to build Web apps with the eight-year-old open source programming language designed for large-scale computing.
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Dynatrace today unveiled new components for its "digital performance platform," featuring a customer experience cockpit and other innovations that the company said were unique in the application performance management industry.
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Performance analytics company SOASTA Inc. has updated its mPulse 55 real user monitoring (RUM) solution, providing what the company claims is the unique ability to accurately measure single-page application (SPA) interactions that basically equate to traditional page views.
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Mobile Web app development tool vendor Sencha Inc. released research showing that many firms are turning to mobile Web app development tools at the expense of native approaches.
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By John K. Waters
Apple is open sourcing the latest version of its year-old Swift programming language, the company announced at its World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco (WWDC) this week.
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Poor performance could be caused by any number of things, like network latency or a slow database, but it could also just be that your pages are too big and loading too slowly.
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By John K. Waters
In a postscript to his series on Java turning 20, John connects with Onno Kluyt, former chair of the of the Java Community Process, to discuss the importance of the open sourcing of the programming language and other topics.
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By John K. Waters
Software development tools maker Genuitec has integrated the Tern stand-alone code analysis engine for JavaScript into the latest 2015 update of its MyEclipse Java EE IDE.
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By John K. Waters
Progress Software released the latest version of its Corticon BRMS. Dubbed the "Corticon Rules Without Limits System," version 5.5 supports the development of business rules for deployment on both Java and Microsoft .NET Framework platforms.
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By John K. Waters
Oracle has pushed the target release date of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 8 to the first half of 2017. Updates of the target dates for the Java Specification Requests "under the Java EE umbrella" reflecting this change are forthcoming, the company said.
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Reports on the death of mobile Web development at the expense of native and hybrid approaches are greatly exaggerated.
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By John K. Waters
John talks to Patrick Curran, a former Sun Microsystems exec who has served as the chairman of the Java Community Process since 2007, discussing why the programming language thrived and its upcoming challenges.
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By John K. Waters
John talks to Java mavens about why, despite licensing controversies, seemingly endless security challenges and the rise of languages like Node.js, Python, Google Go and JavaScript, Java continues to win so many hearts and minds.
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By John K. Waters
The Java guru goes back in time with Kim Polese, who helped shape -- and name -- the nearly ubiquitous programming language at Sun Microsystems 20 years ago.
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By John K. Waters
Enormously popular in the Oracle community, this upgrade of the rapid Web dev tool is a long time coming because it had a bigger objective, and the project leader says "we wanted to get it right."
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Businesses can thrive or fail according to the whims of Google's site-ranking algorithms, and "mobile-friendliness" is about to become a more important factor in mobile search results, putting webmasters and mobile developers on high alert.
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Telerik is enhancing its Kendo UI framework with a new set of features that address the growing demand for tools for responsive design.
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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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Node.js, the popular open-source, server-side JavaScript runtime project, will soon be governed by an independent foundation.