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Article | 27/11/2012 Microsoft updates Visual Studio 2012 with better testing tools and Windows XP support
Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Visual Studio 2012.1) is now available for download. The update allows users to develop applications for Wind...
Article | 19/11/2012 Gartner: Platform-as-a-Service market to see sharp growth
The PaaS (platform as a service) market will grow to US$1.2 billion this year, up from last year's $900 million take, as vendors and customers seek ea...
Article | 15/11/2012 Brightcove, Application Craft aim at PhoneGap with cloud-based development tools
Brightcove's native plug-in architecture for its App Cloud and Application Craft's launch of Mobile Build are the latest examples of how cross-platfor...
Article | 13/11/2012 Bloomberg opens platform for third-party apps
Bloomberg has launched an app portal that will allow subscribers of its financial information service to access additional third-party functionality, ...
Article | 6/11/2012 HP simplifies automated software testing suite
Hewlett-Packard is incorporating three different components, previously available separately, into its HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) automated t...
Article | 5/11/2012 Microsoft updates C++ compiler
Microsoft is updating its C++ compiler for its Visual Studio 12 IDE (integrated development environment) so that Windows application developers can us...
Article | 2/11/2012 Windows 8 presses developers to update their skills
Microsoft likes to talk about Windows 8 as being Windows "reimagined," and in many ways it is quite a departure from its predecessors. To allow the op...
Article | 1/11/2012 Microsoft launches hosted ALM service
After a year in beta, Microsoft has launched its Team Foundation Service, a hosted version of its application lifecycle management (ALM) software. Its...
Article | 31/10/2012 Windows Phone 8 gets boost from inclusion in cross-platform development tools
Cross-platform development frameworks such as Apache Cordova, Sencha Touch and Xamarin.Mobile are all compatible with Windows Phone 8, making it easie...
Article | 30/10/2012 Microsoft releases Windows Phone 8 SDK
One day after the launch of its next generation mobile operating system, Windows Phone 8, Microsoft has released the SDK (software development kit) th...
Article | 30/10/2012 Microsoft CEO Ballmer touts Windows 8 momentum
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the company's annual Build developer conference emphasizing the momentum of the company's new Windows 8 and Win...
Article | 22/10/2012 Oracle brings cross platform Java dev to mobile devices
Oracle is augmenting its Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) to allow developers to create mobile applications for Apple and Android device...
Article | 10/12/2011 Facebook releases a PHP just-in-time compiler
In its continuing endeavor to serve its 800 million users as quickly as possible, Facebook is once again revamping the way it handles its PHP-based We...
Article | 10/12/2011 Xamarin expands Android, iPhone cross-platform development kit
On Thursday, Xamarin added an API (application programming interface) for contacts to its new cross-platform Mobile development kit, with which the co...
Article | 8/12/2011 Hudson spinoff Jenkins gets commercial backing
Java platform-as-a-service cloud provider CloudBees has launched a commercial version of the Jenkins CI (continuous integration) platform, the company...