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is the iPhone Development Environment Superior to Android's?
John Blanco published a comparison between the iPhone and Android Development Environment. Even though he favors Java as a programming language, he believes that Xcode and the iPhone simulators are vastly superior to the tools provided by Google. Do you agree?
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AppSec DC: Neal Ziring on Application Assurance
Neal Ziring said that the role for developers is changing where they have become the first line of defense for applications. Neal presented the keynote session at AppSec DC 2010 conference last week. He also talked about application assurance process with focus on aspects like resilience and visibility.
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Ari Zilka on Ehcache BigMemory
Ehcache BigMemory supports in-process off-heap cache to store large sets of data closer to the application. Terracotta last week announced the general availability of BigMemory module for Enterprise Ehcache product. InfoQ spoke with Ari Zilka about BigMemory features and its use cases.
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Cloudstreams: The Next Cloud Integration Challenge
The potential for massive proliferation of Cloud service brings to the focus the necessity for integration between cloud services themselves and cloud services and enterprise. In his new post, Daryl Plummer introduced a new word into the cloud lexicon, a way to describe these interactions-: the Cloudstream.
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ZapThink on Enterprise IT Trends in The Next Decade
Zapthink 2020 was announced recently as Zapthink’s conceptual framework to explain the trends and crisis that will shape Enterprise IT over the next decade. Jason Bloomberg (Managing Partner, Zapthink LLC) announced the explained the birth of Zapthink 2020 to InfoQ.
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Four Decades of Software Engineering, are Changes Coming?
Jean Bezivin retraces the path that lead to our current software engineering practices and explore new avenues for the coming decade as, he notes, "there are some indications that we are currently crossing some new frontiers in technology and practices".
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Pizzigati Prize For Software in the Public Interest Open for Nominations
InfoQ doesn't normally report on contests and calls for registration . But for the Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest, this time we decided to make an exception. The Pizzigati Prize is a $10,000 prize awarded to "a software developer who adds significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change". Nominations are open until December 15.
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Sencha Touch 1.0 Released - License Drops from $99 to $0
During the keynote at Sencha Conference in San Francisco, the company announced the general availability of Sencha Touch 1.0, while changing the basic license to free, from the $99 it was during pre-release. Sencha Touch enables developers to create cross-platform, touch-enabled web apps that look and feel like native apps.
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HTML5 vs. Flash: Where does Adobe Stand?
In the last year Adobe seems to be embracing HTML5 and integrating it into its product strategy. During the Adobe developer’s conference (MAX), Lee Brimelow tried to clarify his company’s plans for HTML5 and especially regarding competing platforms like Flash and Flex, both for the desktop and the mobile space.
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Layout and Presentation Advice for the UX Designer
Shane Morris, a former Microsoft UX Evangelist and currently an independent UX Architect, held a session called “Pimp My App” at TechEd Australia 2010, presenting 5 things to know before starting to create a UX, 4 steps for creating a good layout, and 6 tips on how to make a product look great.
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Is OSGi the Right Foundation for Java Middleware?
Ross Mason, founder of MuleSource expressed his frustration with OSGi: "OSGi is a great specification for middleware vendors, but a terrible specification for the end user." He argues that OSGi just isn’t ready for the developer yet as it is too difficult to completely make it invisible to a developer.
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Microsoft Announces Hyper-V Cloud
Microsoft has announced Hyper-V Cloud, a cloud computing solution for those interested in having their own private cloud.
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Burton Says SOA Is Rising From Ashes
A new Burton (now part of Gartner) report - The Lazarus Effect: SOA Returns – states that there is a still a need for SOA but it had been sidelined as a technical issue and that IT has failed to sell SOA as a transforming methodology.
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Writing HTML5 Applications with Google App Engine, Google Closure Library and Clojure
Stefan Richter, CTO of Freiheit.com, explained this week at the Google Developer Day in Munich, his vision for writing rich internet applications using HTML5 and Google App Engine and why he thinks that it will be more difficult to build a client-side component based HTML5 when compared to Server-based page rendering.
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Strata Big Data Conference Program Published
The program for the new O'Reilly Strata conference for big data was announced today and registration has opened. We interviewed conference organizer Edd Dumbilll about the conference.