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Application Development news, reviews and analysis across the software lifecycle (application lifecycle management or ALM) covering enterprise software development. Topics include enterprise application development and desktop software development using a number of platforms, including Windows, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Microsoft .NET, PHP, C++, Python, Java, and Unix. development. Other areas of coverage include development technologies like JBoss, Spring, Eclipse and NetBeans, parallel programming and concurrency, development for mobile devices and smartphones, and the developer, designer/developer workflow.
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IBM has enhanced its Smarter Commerce strategy with a new cloud-based offering aimed at chief marketing officers (CMOs), and marketing departments in general, that focus on the business-to-consumer (B2C) market.
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OpenLogic said it saw a 730 percent increase in the number of open-source scans in Q1 2012 as opposed to Q1 2011.
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F# is a strongly typed, functional-first programming language for writing simple code to solve complex problems. From the business perspective, the primary role of F#, pronounced F sharp, is to reduce the time-to-deployment for analytical software components in the modern enterprise. For example, F# makes it straightforward to tackle the complexity of components such as calculation engines and data-rich analytical services, while facilitating the construction of correct, robust and efficient software. Together, these give concrete business advantages through the rapid investigation of problem spaces and the seamless, nonintrusive deployment of the resulting components. One key to this is F#'s interoperability with all .NET languages and libraries, which also provides developers with an incremental path for adopting F#. F# 2.0 is both open source and shipped as part of Visual Studio 2010. A preview of F# 3.0 is currently available in Visual Studio 11 Beta. The F# language originated in Microsoft Research and has been available since 2007. In the past five years, F# has continued to grow in popularity, and Microsoft has detailed how the language has helped solved complex programming problems in industries as diverse as banking, insurance and energy. Following an expert talk on the use of F# at Microsoft’s recent Lang.NEXT 2012 conference, Donna Malayeri, Microsoft’s program manager for F# came up with 10 reasons developers should look at F# for certain projects. Here, eWEEK shares Malayeri’s Top 10 list and shows why developers should check out F#.
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With its new Axis browser plug-in, Yahoo is making a move into the browser space and showing the struggling company still has some fight in it.
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Will the iPhone 5, with the Samsung Galaxy S III, usher us into a weird world where we hang out chatting with our phones instead of our friends or family? New John Malkovich ad with Siri suggests: yes.
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Microsoft joined forces with IBM, Citrix, Progress Software, SAP and WSO2 to move the Microsoft Open Data Protocol (OData) specification to the OASIS standards body.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: As HP changes emphasis, will it relinquish some of its global services business to IBM so it can focus on research and development and building new Converged Cloud systems?
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Memorial Day is right around the corner, which means that summer is finally here. With the warm breezes and lighter, longer days comes the perfect opportunity to load up your iPhone—and possibly your iPad—with some fresh new apps to embrace the summer weather. From flashlights to organizers, GPS mapping systems and fitness apps, the Apple App Store has everything you need to maximize your summer plans, be they in the office (ugh) or at the beach (yay). Best of all, most of these apps cost less than a dollar, and some are free, so whether you’re making last-minute travel plans, checking in on the Olympic Summer Games in London (USA! USA!), or just checking the weather to see whether your mobile office is moving to the balcony tomorrow, this list should get you primed for sunning in shorts and working in shirtsleeves—just the way we know you like it.
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SaaS-based application performance management (APM) provider New Relic has teamed with Web app testing specialist SOASTA to deliver a combined solution that provides testing and APM support from development through operations.
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iPhones and smartphones running Android—most of them from Samsung—heavily dominate a mobile ecosystem in which the third-largest player has only a 6.8 percent share, according to IDC.
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IBM finalizes its acquisition of Varicent Software, a provider of analytics software for compensation and sales performance management. IBM initially announced its plans to acquire Varicent in April.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Judge William Alsup has become The Decider in what could become a landmark case in software intellectual property.
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Google's doodles take a step forward in complexity as the company honors the man who created the analog Moog synthesizer.
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Oracle announced plans to acquire Vitrue, a cloud-based social marketing company that helps customers create, publish, moderate, manage, measure and report on their social marketing campaigns.
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The jury in the Oracle vs. Google case came back with a unanimous verdict that Google did not infringe any of Oracle’s patents. The judge in the case dismissed the jury, but still has to decide on leftover issues from the copyright phase of the trial.
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In this review, eWEEK Labs takes a look at the features and performance of the MongoDB driver for Node.js and finds that experienced developers will benefit from the 1.0 release.
Cloud Foundry is attracting a solid base of partners, who are adding value and are packaging the PaaS project for deployment in various forms.
The latest version of Bare Bones Software's text editor offers revamped HTML tools and UI.
Review: Servoy's open-source Servoy 5.2 Java RAD is worth a look for those interested in cross-platform application development and deployment, although the documentation could be better and some experience with Eclipse is advisable.
Code-named Helios, the latest release of Eclipse brings client access to Eclipse Marketplace from within the IDE, some worthwhile JavaScript-related features and a set of tools for C/C++ application development.
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