TalkingTech
The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
Apple WWDC, the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, sold out in just 2 hours Wednesday morning, smashing last year's record 10-hour sellout.
By Bob Brown | 26 April, 2012 02:39
Google announced the first stable release of its new programming language -- dubbed "Go" -- on Wednesday, providing an initial base of support for new projects and applications. Binaries have been released for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and OS X.
By Jon Gold | 30 March, 2012 08:22
Microsoft's message to apps developers: Fit into the Metro style of Windows 8 to make things easier on end users, according to two developers.
By Tim Greene | 17 March, 2012 01:43
New job opportunities are emerging for IT professionals in the field of "big data," the term used to describe how corporations gather vast amounts of real-time data about their customers and analyze that data to drive decision making and increase profitability.
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 07 March, 2012 00:27
IT professionals are scrambling to get trained and certified in what's expected to be the hottest new high-tech skill for 2012: Hadoop.
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 07 March, 2012 00:27
It's relatively simple to get up and running with Clojure - the latest Lisp dialect. We show you how.
By Pascal Hakim | 10 August, 2009 17:27
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
Some early programmer names are familiar to even the most novice of software developers. You may never have seen a line of code written by Bill Gates, or written any application in BASIC (much less for the Altair). But you know Gates' name, and the names of a few others.
By Esther Schindler | 04 November, 2010 10:45
A few years ago, self-proclaimed non-developer Kevin Smith worked for a software company that tried to build a project tracking tool using Microsoft .Net. Some 15 developers spent a year with little success. "After burning though a million dollars and still without a product, the company called it quits," says Smith, now managing partner of NextWave Performance, a consultancy in Denver, Colo.
By Tom Kaneshige | 21 November, 2008 09:59
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
One thing that the AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development community has aplenty is choice. Want a free, open source AJAX framework? We have (alphabetically) Dojo, Ext, Google Web Toolkit, jQuery, MooTools, OpenRico, Prototype, Scriptaculous, and the Yahoo User Interface Library, and frankly they're all pretty good. There are hundreds more, but unfortunately I can't keep up with them all.
By Martin Heller | 30 October, 2008 08:42
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