Programming

Despite all the changes to application lifecycle management (ALM), IT organizations are doing just fine when it comes to core development processes. It is the "bookend" processes of requirements management and release management that need help.

Felix Ehm, a member of CERN's beams control group, has always had a curious and scientific bent.

Mozilla Marketplace will be online in a few weeks to take on Apple App Store and Google Play Store

Sencha's drag-and-drop tool for building Web and mobile apps is friendly to designers if they're also developers

Free software and GNU Linux icon Richard Stallman was taken ill at a weekend conference in Spain, reportedly being taken to hospital suffering from symptoms of high blood pressure.

In the less than two months since Citrix gave its CloudStack software an Apache license, cloud providers are beginning to support the open source model.

A University of California graduate student has shown how to transmit Internet packets by playing them on xylophones

Things that won't die are great for the movies, but bad ideas that won't go away can really hurt cloud projects. Unfortunately, management likes classic, counterproductive waterfall project management and binary go-live deployments for cloud projects.

Facebook's new App Center is set to launch, but are you ready to be seen? Here are four steps you, and all Facebook developers, must follow to ensure your app is included.

An ACM CHI study finds Facebook adheres to good user interface design principles

A new tool allows developers to create dashboards without having to learn Analytics APIs

If the dynamics of code inspections have changed in the past three decades, how should we inspect now? Matt Heusser suggests that pair programming principles could provide some, but not all, of the answers.

Elastic Beanstalk helps developers roll out ASP.NET applications in Amazon's cloud

The move, which was not unexpected, comes as the case's patent phase begins

Based on feedback from February beta release, revisions affect coloring, icons, and Metro style

The lack of full-text search has long frustrated developers

Dell has taken what you might call an on-again, off-again approach to offering Ubuntu-preloaded hardware over the years, but on Monday the company made an announcement that Linux fans are sure to cheer.

Taking an agile approach to the application lifecycle in a hybrid cloud environment means moving beyond the one-and-done method of V2C conversions and embracing DevOps. Getting development and operations to collaborate means linking resource, configuration, and cloud management.

Lotus F1's IT team made a technology pit stop and changed from a traditional application development strategy to an agile approach. Why shift gears? The pit crew and car designer wanted better data faster -- and IT wasn't about to pass on the opportunity.

Here's a look at the growing list of open-source platform-as-a-service providers and how IT managers can decide where the technology fits best in their organizations.