Development

Guide: The new rules for enterprise apps

An insurance company decided to roll out an application for its sales reps. The new app would give them a wider selection of products to offer customers when out in the field. Information on those products was stored in a legacy mainframe system, so the company created a Web interface that let reps query the database to get details on offerings.

By Minda Zetlin | 24 January, 2012 03:26

Tags: mobile, mobile applications

Chinese developers take a bite of the Apple

If you've ever gone to Apple's mobile app store and purchased games like High Noon, Gamebox1 or Doodletruck, then you've downloaded an app from the burgeoning Chinese software development community.

By Maria Korolov and Wang Fangqing | 22 August, 2011 20:39

Tags: Apple, games, mobile apps, networking, software, wireless

PostgreSQL devs lift open source database to enterprise heights

The release of the first beta of version 9.1 of the open source PostgreSQL database has opened a new era in enterprise-class reliability and data integrity that can compete with the big names, say its developers.

By Rodney Gedda | 06 May, 2011 15:20

Tags: clustering, databases, enterprisedb, open source, postgresql, reliability

In HTML5 war, Microsoft guy slams "President of the United States of Google"

Microsoft and Google are fighting yet another public relations battle, this time over the HTML5 video standards to be used in the next generation of Web browsers.

By Jon Brodkin | 13 January, 2011 04:35

Tags: application development, digital video, Google, html 5, Microsoft, programming, software

Open source helps Facebook achieve massive app scalability

People all over the world spend a total of eight billion minutes a day on Facebook. Some 3.5 billion pieces of content are shared every week, 400 billion Web pages are viewed every month and the site logs a staggering 25TB of data every day. David Recordon, senior open programs manager at Facebook, talks about how the social networking giant uses open source tools to achieve its massive app scalablilty.

By Rodney Gedda | 24 February, 2010 09:40

Tags: apache, cloud computing, databases, Facebook, high performance computing (HPC), lamp, Linux, memcached, mysql, open source, php, SaaS, software development

Slideshow: Open source at Facebook

It’s loved by millions and has risen from a small-time university social networking service to the biggest phenomenon on the Internet. It’s the phenomenon that is Facebook. Popularity, however, doesn’t come easy. With some 400 million unique home pages Facebook is pushing the boundaries of traditional Web application scalability and it’s not shy to admit that it has been achieved by leveraging open source software. We take a look at some of the slides presented by Facebook at this year's FOSDEM conference in Belgium.

By Rodney Gedda | 24 February, 2010 14:25

Tags: cloud computing, Facebook, open source, social networks

Horde open source groupware preps version 4 release

The Horde open source messaging and groupware project is gearing up for the first major release of its application suite and development environment in years with version 4 due in mid-2010.

By Rodney Gedda | 06 April, 2010 11:44

Tags: ajax, caldav, groupware, horde, open source, php

What to expect from HTML 5

Among Web developers, anticipation is mounting for HTML 5, the overhaul of the Web markup language currently under way at the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C).

By Neil McAllister | 09 March, 2010 07:50

Tags: html 5

CoffeeScript brewing as variation on JavaScript

CoffeeScript, billed by its creator as "unfancy JavaScript," is in development as a language that compiles into JavaScript but offers a different sense of style.

By Paul Krill | 06 January, 2010 07:50

Tags: javascript

KDE 4.4 aims to take free desktop skyward

The final release of KDE 4.4 is due in early 2010, and not since the arrival of KDE 4.0 two years ago has an open source desktop environment been so highly anticipated by the free desktop community. Unlike the anti-climax that was the first KDE 4 release, however, KDE 4.4's developers say this new version will actually deliver on many of the original promises of this next-generation desktop environment -- and then some.

By Rodney Gedda | 17 November, 2009 15:12

Tags: desktop linux, kde, kde4, open source, Qt

Open source identity: Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson

Web application development reached a new paradigm with the release of Ruby on Rails back in 2004. Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson has since been at the helm of one of the most successful and popular open source software development projects. Ruby on Rails, or just Rails, has allowed thousands of developers to create complex applications rapidly in a consistent manner. Open Source Identity catches up David Heinemeier Hansson to find out what the early days of Rails was like and what the future holds.

By Rodney Gedda | 22 October, 2009 10:51

Tags: frameworks, open source, open source identity, ruby, ruby on rails, web development

Open source identity: PulseAudio creator Lennart Poettering

He likes photography and skiing, but the primary concern of Lennart Poettering is advancing the Linux audio experience with PulseAudio, an open source sound server. With this the Linux audio experience will be more context-aware. For example, if a video is running in one application the system should automatically reduce the volume of everything else and increase it when the video is finished. We catch up with Lennart immediately after this year’s Linux Plumbers Conference to find out the latest PulseAudio developments.

By Rodney Gedda | 08 October, 2009 15:33

Tags: audio, Linux, Linux Plumber's Conference, open source, open source identity, PulseAudio

QEMU virtualization reaches 0.11, brings 1400 changes

Open source virtualization app QEMU has reached version 0.11 and brings some 1400 changes from 90 contributors.

By Rodney Gedda | 30 September, 2009 14:06

Tags: emulation, kvm, Linux, open source, QEMU, virtual desktops, Virtualization

Adobe Flash, Flex ignite with Flash Catalyst

If only it were as easy to build a Web application as it is to design one in Illustrator and Photoshop. Maybe it will be someday, and maybe that someday is closer than we might think. Adobe has certainly succeeded in shrinking the distance between design and development with its latest batch of RIA tools: Adobe Flex 4 SDK, Adobe Flash Builder 4 (the Flex Builder IDE renamed), and Adobe Flash Catalyst, all recently made available in public beta.

By James R. Borck | 16 June, 2009 07:55

Tags: adobe flash, adobe flex

In Pictures: Highlights from the 2009 Google Summer of Code

Debian, Joomla!, PHP, OpenSUSE, Gimp and more!

By Darren Pauli | 21 April, 2009 13:22

Tags: google summer of code, open source

Rich Internet apps that double as desktop apps

Finding a single development environment for all purposes has so far proven an unattainable goal. But with the advent of rich Internet applications (RIA), development nirvana gets a bit closer.

By Martin Heller | 03 February, 2009 09:15

Tags: rich internet applications

Top 10 wicked cool algorithms

A round up of interesting algorithms and look at how they impact your community.

By Michael Cooney | 20 November, 2008 09:51

Tags: algorithms

Why developers prefer Macs

When Terry Weaver wants to create .Net applications, he fires up Visual Studio and types away like any other .Net programmer. The setup gets a bit weird when he wants to test how the .Net application might appear to a Mac user visiting the Web site. Instead of starting up another machine, asking a colleague with a Mac, or simply ignoring those crazy followers of Steve Jobs, Weaver just pops over to the browser in another window. That's easy because Visual Studio is running on Windows inside a Parallels virtual machine, which, in turn, runs on his Mac. He has a PC, a Mac, and a Unix development box all in one.

By Peter Wayner | 18 November, 2008 09:34

Tags: Mac

15 amazing Web apps built in 48 hours

Winning entries from the annual Ruby on Rails coding contest.

By Julie Bort | 12 November, 2008 10:41

Tags: ruby on rails

Multicore: New chips mean new challenges for developers

With the advent of multicore processors such as the Intel Core Duo, which is now commonplace in PCs, software developers must deal with a new wrinkle -- getting software to be processed across multiple cores -- in order to ensure the maximum performance from their software. But this is much easier said than done, with developers having to tackle issues with concurrency and potential performance bottlenecks. Already, 71 percent of organizations are developing multithreaded applications for multicore hardware, according to a recent IDC survey sponsored by tool vendor Coverity.

By Paul Krill | 05 November, 2008 08:09

Tags: chips, cpu, programming

Twitter Feed

Whitepapers

- + c

Latest News

- + c
more