Darryl K. Taft

ORLANDO, Fla.—IBM and 10gen, the MongoDB company, have announced they are collaborating on a database development standard to push MongoDB as a core NoSQL database for enterprises building Web and mobile apps. IBM said the standard is aimed at revolutionizing how Global 5000 companies connect their existing systems with new computing technologies to unlock valuable […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, a privately held cloud computing infrastructure provider, in a move aimed at making Big Blue more competitive in the cloud space. The acquisition will strengthen IBM’s position in cloud computing and will help speed business adoption of public and private cloud services. Financial terms were […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—IBM and AT&T announced they are working together to help businesses develop more network-efficient mobile apps. Announced at its IBM Innovate 2013 conference here, the new integration of AT&T and IBM technology enables enterprises to conduct comprehensive testing and analysis of their apps’ network and battery usage on mobile devices and quickly make necessary […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—IBM has announced new software, training and resources to help organizations create, test and deliver mobile and cloud applications. Announced June 3 at the company’s IBM Innovate 2013 conference, also known as The IBM Technical Summit, here, these initiatives expand the development capabilities of IBM’s SmartCloud and IBM MobileFirst offerings and shore up IBM’s […]

Microsoft has been gradually and consistently evolving its Windows Azure cloud platform to differentiate it from other competing offerings. At the Microsoft TechEd 2013 conference, the software giant gets to show off some of the new ways Microsoft is positioning Windows Azure and making developers offers they might find very hard to refuse. Some of […]

Microsoft is announcing major new versions of its flagship application development environment and application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions—preview versions of Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2013—at its TechEd 2013 conference in New Orleans on June 3. The software giant is announcing key new functionality in both environments and will be introducing some […]

Several prominent computer scientists have joined Google in its battle to thwart Oracle’s appeal of a federal judge’s ruling that the Java APIs Google used to create Android are not copyrightable. In an amicus brief filed with the court May 30, a group of 32 computer scientists urged an appeals court today to block the […]

The emergence of HTML5, JavaScript and CSS—core Web development technologies—has taken the industry by storm, with major players moving to make the technologies part of their primary tool chains. Microsoft, for example, has made HTML5 and JavaScript key to application development on Windows 8 and the Internet Explorer (IE) browser. Even more significantly, it has […]

Hadoop, Java Combo Top of Mind for Hiring Managers by Darryl K. Taft Java Takes the Lead Java is the leading skill hiring managers look for in combination with Hadoop, according to Dice’s Open Web. Java remains immensely popular and is the second most popular language in the TIOBE Programming Community Index for May 2013. […]

When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg complained about the use of HTML5 for its mobile app, HTML5 tools provider Sencha took offense and set out to prove HTML5’s mettle. In December 2012, Sencha engineers Jamie Avins and Jacky Nguyen posted a description of a Facebook mobile app they built with HTML5. That post, entitled “The Making […]