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30 Mar 2015
Microsoft pursues Android users, preloading Office on Samsung, Dell tablets
Microsoft pursues Android users, preloading Office on Samsung, Dell tablets Credit: Mark Hachman The company’s eager to extend its services beyond Windows, but some users may see this freebie as bloatware If it can’t sell customers on Windows, Microsoft’s Plan B has been to bring its services to other platforms. Today, it did just that,
30 Mar 2015
Review: 7 excellent mobile app builders
Review: 7 excellent mobile app builders Credit: Shutterstock Alpha Anywhere, AnyPresence, and Salesforce1 lead a rich field of low-code mobile development tools Over the last six months, I’ve been examining and testing a variety of mobile app builders and mobile back ends. In some cases, the app builders and back ends were part of a
30 Mar 2015
Wanted: Easy database app dev tools for the Web
Wanted: Easy database app dev tools for the Web Credit: Pixabay Building database apps for a workgroup used to be a simple task. All we need is a new, modern set of Web tools to make that task easy again A friend of mine needs a simple database application to support his team. It’s fairly
30 Mar 2015
The 5 best new features in Android 5.1 Lollipop
The 5 best new features in Android 5.1 Lollipop Google fixed a ton of bugs, and it also pushed through a few helpful features that should have been bundled with Lollipop from the start Android Lollipop 5.0 was supposed to change everything. It was supposed to inspire a revolution, a better — and betterlooking —
30 Mar 2015
What Google Code’s end means for Bitbucket, CodePlex, and SourceForge
What Google Code’s end means for Bitbucket, CodePlex, and SourceForge Credit: Signum Comminatio Vitae With most of its projects migrating away to GitHub, Google Code is shutting down; how will other competitors fare? For a time, Google Code was where many open source projects made their home. Then came the rise — and rise andrise — of
30 Mar 2015
Java: The once and future king of Internet programming
Java: The once and future king of Internet programming Built for embedded computing and streamlined for real-time, here’s why Java is the language of IoT What is Java to you? A programming language you learned in college? The lingua franca of corporate IT? Would you believe that Java is poised to dominate the next explosion
30 Mar 2015
Microsoft brings Node.js debugging to Visual Studio
Microsoft brings Node.js debugging to Visual Studio Credit: Galina Pankratova Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio supports deploying Node.js applications in Microsoft Azure With NTVS (Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio) released Wednesday, Microsoft is enabling its Windows software development platform for use as a Node.js IDE. NTVS is a free, open source extension for
30 Mar 2015
Facebook’s iOS UI development framework goes open source
Facebook’s iOS UI development framework goes open source Credit: Image credit: IDG News Service/Zach Miners ComponentKit framework, now offered for general use, reduces the complexity of writing code Facebook has open-sourced ComponentKit, its React-inspired framework for iOS. Facebook says ComponentKit is a native Objective-C++ view framework with a declarative, functional approach to building a UI.
30 Mar 2015
Facebook: We don’t hate the Web
Facebook: We don’t hate the Web Credit: Thinkstock But for the time being Facebook is sticking to native development for mobile apps and open-sourcing its React Native technology Facebook does not hate the Web — as in Web development — but the social network giant does prefer native development when it comes to prominent device
30 Mar 2015
How to succeed with microservices architecture
How to succeed with microservices architecture Credit: Thinkstock Developer empowerment is a key part of the microservices trend, says Nginx’s Owen Garrett, who offers lessons learned from real world implementations The term “microservices” might be relatively new, but the practice of breaking applications into single-function, discrete services has gone on for years — long enough