Darryl K. Taft

Coupa Software is big on the use of Ruby and Ruby on Rails for enterprise Web development, so much that it is pretty much all the company does. San Mateo, Calif.-based Coupa is a spend management company, which means it helps companies control their indirect spending and generate savings by delivering such capabilities as e-procurement […]

IBM Research announced two new cognitive computing technologies, based on Big Blue’s Watson supercomputer system that are expected to help physicians make more informed and accurate decisions faster and to cull new insights from electronic medical records (EMR). The two Watson-related cognitive projects, known as “WatsonPaths” and “Watson EMR Assistant,” are the result of a […]

The Groovy programming language has gained in popularity over the last year, such that it has now cracked the top 20 list of the TIOBE Index of most popular programming languages. Groovy, an object-oriented scripting language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), ranks number 18 on the TIOBE Index. Last year this time […]

Microsoft donated its RIA Services codebase to the open-source community to help launch a new Outercurve Foundation open-source project called “Open RIA Services.” Open RIA Services will simplify the development of cross-platform ASP.NET applications for the Web and be supported by community involvement, Microsoft said. The Outercurve Foundation is an open-source foundation that provides IP […]

Microsoft Open Technologies announced its release of an open-source project called Kinect Common Bridge for Kinect for Windows. This project enables developers to easily integrate Kinect scenarios and experiences into applications. For instance, a developer could build an app that allows users to control a 3D model animation with your body, Minority Report style, Olivier […]

Senior Android application developers tend to earn more money than similarly experienced iOS developers, according to data from worldwide recruiting and staffing firm CyberCoders. At the senior level, Android developers receive an average of $10,000 more a year in salary than their iOS counterparts, according to CyberCoders, which compiled its research from information from 2011 […]

PHP Leads the Way to Enterprise Agility at ZendCon 2013 By Darryl K. Taft The ZendCon MC Joe Stagner, director of developer strategy at Zend, acts as master of ceremonies, opening the ZendCon 2013 show and setting the agenda for the conference. The CMO Sets the Tone Elaine Lennox, chief marketing officer at Zend, set […]

IBM and Semtech, a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, have announced a significant advancement in wireless technology that could benefit the Internet of things. The companies are combining IBM software and Semtech hardware to create a system capable of transmitting data up to a distance of 15 kilometers, or 9 miles, depending on the […]

IBM Research has opened a new lab focused specifically on big data. On Oct. 10, IBM announced the Accelerated Discovery Lab, a new collaborative environment targeted at helping clients find unknown relationships from disparate data sets. Some of the industry applications being considered at the new lab are drug development, social analytics and predictive maintenance. […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Google has announced general availability of its preview of PHP on Google App Engine. At the ZendCon 2013 conference here, Peter S. Magnusson, a Google engineering director, announced during a keynote that the offering, initially announced in limited preview at Google I/O in May, is now available to the general public. Magnusson also […]