Darryl K. Taft

During this year, IT organizations can expect to see a rise in simple and intuitive personal cloud services and fit-for-purpose applications at the expense of more full-featured and complex apps, according to an executive at Progress Software. John Goodson, senior vice president of the product development group at Progress, which produces software that simplifies and […]

A group of software developers dedicated to the F# functional programming language has banded together to form the F# Foundation to advance the language in the enterprise and beyond. According to the foundation’s Web page, the F# Software Foundation (FSSF) exists to promote, protect, and advance F#, and to support and foster the growth of […]

DARPA’s Four-Legged Robots Demonstration In September, DARPA’s Legged Squad Support System (LS3) program demonstrated two robotic “pack-mule” prototypes for Marine Gen. James F. Amos, and DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar. The first platform underwent its initial outdoor test earlier in the year, and matured through continual testing and improvements to the point that two functioning platforms […]

Reservoir Labs announced it has been awarded a research contract with options up to $8.7 million in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Power Efficiency Revolution for Embedded Computing Technology (PERFECT) program. New York City-based Reservoir will be developing software to support new highly power efficient embedded computing devices. Resulting technology will support military […]

Cutting Edge Asynchronous programming is a first-class language feature and turns what is typically regarded as boring, repetitive and error-prone coding into a more simple experience, Friedman said. And anonymous types, lambda expressions, type inference, functional-style programming and LINQ allow developers to write code that is highly expressive and easy to maintain. Powerful Features Object-oriented […]

Microsoft’s C# programming language earned the rank of the No. 1 programming language of 2012, the PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language index revealed. According to the PYPL index, C# had the biggest growth in 2012, rising more than 2.3 percent, by far the biggest growth of any language over the past year, surpassing Java, PHP […]

In something of a departure from its traditional space, Canonical has announced a new smartphone interface for its popular operating system, Ubuntu. Canonical delivers a common OS for a series of platforms, including phone, server, cloud and more. Canonical officials said Ubuntu gives handset OEMs and mobile operators the ability to converge phone, PC and […]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the steward for nearly 150 key open-source projects and initiatives, has announced Apache Cassandra 1.2, the latest version of the scalable, fault-tolerant, big data distributed database. Highlights for the second-generation high-performance, NoSQL database include clustering across virtual nodes, inter-node communication, atomic batches and request tracing. In addition, Cassandra 1.2 also […]

Today: Using Unchilled Tap Water Milnes David, an engineer in IBM’s Energy Efficiency Lab in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., inspects the chilled innards of a specially cooled computer the company developed for the U.S. Department of Energy as part of a two-year research project, which is drawing to a close. The project sought to increase the efficiency […]

As more and more enterprises begin to adopt agile software development methodologies, the need for qualified agile developers has skyrocketed. However, the number of available agile developers cannot keep up with demand, according to a recent study. Many of the Fortune 500 and leading brands in America are increasingly searching for agile software developers that […]