Fred Grott, a programmer who specializes in smart phone applications, has two models for his business: He can write specialized applications in native code that take advantage of all of the features ...

When evaluating tools and frameworks, it's very important to understand how they support the specific applications that your teams are developing. Using tools that are well designed for the task at ...

Ten years ago this week, the tech-heavy Nasdaq stock exchange reached its all-time peak of 5,048.52. It was the height of the dotcom boom, and thousands of developers were busy writing millions of ...

Overview: Java is best for large, secure, long-term enterprise systems with a strong type-safe guarantee.JavaScript dominates ...

The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

The fact that ARM64 processors are low powered in terms of energy consumption means more servers can be crammed into the same volume of datacentre space than x86 hardware. If workloads can run on ...

Mobile applications for iPhone and Android smartphones are where the excitement is today in application development. There are plenty of customers (Canalys says there were almost 8 million Android ...

Many software developers do not pay enough attention to the shutdown (also referred to as undeploy) of the applications they write. In fact, the most popular shutdown mechanism is to execute Ctl+C or ...

Swing Modernization Toolkit addresses a growing challenge for enterprises: millions of lines of business-critical Java Swing code that still work but face increasing pressure from users who expect ...

One of the most extended belief about web applications is that most of them are insecure. This opinion is supported by statistics published by SANS [1] which show that almost half the vulnerabilities ...