Coders go the distance for charityGeeklist, a social networking site for developers, recently hosted #hack4good, a 48-hour global coding marathon during which more than 2,000 independent developers in 21 cities created applications to help world charities solve various humanitarian… Oct 10 13October 10, 2013Article at SD Times
SD Times Blog: Top 10 technology trends for 2014Research firm Gartner today identified the Top 10 technology trends that they said will be strategic for most organizations in 2014. Gartner defines a strategic technology as “one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the… Oct 08 13October 08, 2013Article at SD Times
Load Impact introduces cloud-based performance analysis toolCloud-based load-testing service provider Load Impact has announced an automated Service Metrics Agent that lets developers detect, measure, analyze and predict server performance problems in their applications or websites. Traditionally, when… Oct 03 13October 03, 2013Article at SD Times
CAST updates Application Intelligence PlatformSoftware quality analysis and measurement tool provider CAST has added a new Delivery Management Tool (DMT) to CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP) 7.1 to help enterprise developers analyze, measure and track their applications’ quality. The… Oct 02 13October 02, 2013Article at SD Times
Making a better user experience for Windows 8With its use of live tiles, colors and touch-focused design elements, the Windows 8 platform presents developers with some unique user experience design challenges, as well as some unique opportunities. To help developers with this steep learning… Sep 27 13September 27, 2013Article at SD Times
SD Times Blog: Touch, 3D and motion sensing: The next wave in user experienceUser experience is advancing to the next level, according to a Forrester Research report entitled “The 10 Most Important Technology Trends In Business Application Architecture Today,” by analysts Jost Hoppermann, Paul D. Hamerman and George Lawrie.… Sep 25 13September 25, 2013Article at SD Times
Playing games with developersWill gamification be short-lived in the enterprise due to unrealistic expectations? Not if done correctly, say industry experts. In fact, they said gamification not only belongs in the workplace but, ultimately, it will thrive. Gamification is one of… Sep 23 13September 23, 2013Article at SD Times
Telerik’s Icenium now integrates with Visual StudioApplication development tool provider Telerik has announced that its cloud-based mobile development tool Icenium now directly integrates with Visual Studio 2012. This integration is for .NET developers who want to create Android and iOS applications… Sep 23 13September 23, 2013Article at SD Times
Moovweb’s responsive delivery pushResponsive Web design (RWD) is a mobile website development technique that uses CSS, HTML5 and JavaScript on the client to create websites that auto-size themselves to the width of mobile devices. Responsive delivery (RD) is a server-side technique… Sep 19 13September 19, 2013Article at SD Times
SD Times Blog: CA Technologies’ DevOps advice: Identify your troublemakersDevOps, a process that helps foster collaboration between the teams that create and test applications with the teams that maintain them in production, can help organizations speed up application development, improve software quality and accelerate… Sep 19 13September 19, 2013Article at SD Times
SD Times Blog: The enterprise-focused iOS 7 Apple announcement (that never happened)Apple’s iOS 7 goes live tomorrow. What will it mean for enterprises? Well, you couldn’t tell from Apple’s consumer-focused media event last Tuesday where they discussed the new iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s at length. So where can you get the lowdown on… Sep 17 13September 17, 2013Article at SD Times
Embarcadero adds Android, MBaaS support to RAD StudioApplication and database solution provider Embarcadero has added Android support to RAD Studio XE5, the latest version of its mobile application development platform. RAD Studio XE5 now helps application developers create “true native” applications… Sep 11 13September 11, 2013Article at SD Times
What can mobile app development do for you?Increased developer productivity, multi-platform development, the BYOD trend, enterprise scalability, the demand for great user experiences, and code reuse are some of the reasons why application developers should be using both open-source and… Sep 04 13September 04, 2013Article at SD Times
Agile2013: Enterprise scaling and team collaborationCollaboration between teams and how to scale agile across the enterprise were among the topics discussed at the Agile Alliance’s Agile2013 conference, held this week in Nashville. In an interview with SD Times, Andy Powell, customer evangelist at… Aug 09 13August 09, 2013Article at SD Times
SD Times Blog: Agile2013 Keynote: How the evolution of the team has changedAt the Agile2013 conference wrapping up today in Nashville, Tim Lister, principal at the Atlantic Systems Guild (ASG), a consulting firm, delivered a keynote titled, “Forty years of trying to play well with others.” Lister told conference attendees… Aug 09 13August 09, 2013Article at SD Times
SD Times Blog: Agile2013 Keynote: The user experience in government software mattersAt the Agile2013 conference going on this week in Nashville, Abhi Nemani, the interim co-executive director at Code for America, delivered a keynote titled, “Coding for America: How Agile and Lean are disrupting government—and why they need to.”… Aug 08 13August 08, 2013Article at SD Times
Syncfusion adds OLAP-based grid controls to suiteWindows component provider Syncfusion announced on July 23 the release of Essential Studio for JavaScript, a suite of 30 JavaScript client-side controls and components. The company said the suite is for Web developers who need client-side components… Jul 26 13July 26, 2013Article at SD Times
Telerik reaches for ‘authentically digital’ with Kendo UI frameworkMobile application development tool provider Telerik on July 17 announced the availability of the second of three scheduled releases of Kendo UI, its HTML5/JavaScript framework for building websites and hybrid mobile applications. The company said… Jul 22 13July 22, 2013Article at SD Times
Point.io provides BaaS mobile application development platformNewly launched company Point.io yesterday released its namesake enterprise Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) mobile application development platform that allows developers to build mobile applications that can access the unstructured data in an enterprise.… Jul 17 13July 17, 2013Article at SD Times
DevExpress adds controls to .NET dev toolDevExpress recently released DevExpress Universal 13.1, an updated version of its integrated .NET software development tool set. .NET developers can create Windows, Web and mobile applications using the new controls and features across the WinForms,… Jul 16 13July 16, 2013Article at SD Times