Local development environments can be a pain to set up by hand, despite ready-made deployment environments offered by…

In programming circles, there’s been a steady emphasis on platforms that support Ruby, Python and Node.js - and not as much attention paid…

Heather Payne wanted to learn to code. She worked in marketing for a large company and wanted to learn to make websites on her own, but…

Are older programming languages like Java and Perl giving way to newer languages like Python and Ruby? Is HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript overtaking…

People search engine Pipl's people search API is now out of beta and open to all developers. The API can be used to bring a variety of…

Jeff Ma, the MIT blackjack team member who served as the inspiration for Ben Mezrich’s book Bringing Down the House and the film 21…

The iPad isn't just a hot new consumer device, it's also an increasingly popular tool for business. Each week we take a look at the new or…

There are a number of projects out there that claim to be "democratizing" complex systems such as big data analysis, predictive analytics…

How do you deal with all those Web analytics snippets, header tags for authenticating with various services (like Google Webmaster Central…

This week Microsoft announced its intentions to bring Hadoop to SQL Server and Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW). PDW was introduced last year…

It's hard to keep track of all the database-related terms you hear these days. What constitutes "big data"? What is NoSQL, and why are…

Nearly the entire text of The Art of Assembly Language Programming has been posted online for the Processing Systems and Structures course…

Google has been working on Native Client (aka NaCl), an SDK that brings C/C++ functionality to browsers since at least last year, and now…

It's hard to keep track of all the database-related terms you hear these days. What constitutes "big data"? What is NoSQL, and why are…

Here's another one for our lists of government-less Internets: MondoNet. According to the MondoNet website: "The purpose of this project…

Photo aggregation service Trove revealed results of a survey of

PouchDB is a new project from former CouchOne (now called Couchbase) employee Mikeal Rogers. It's an attempt to create a full JavaScript…

Today, Box announced a tablet-optimized Android app, a PlayBook app (the company's first native app for any BlackBerry platform) and a new…

Following the announcement of its partnership with Dell, Cloudera announced a new partner program for resellers and professional services…

HTML5 Boiler Plate, a template for building HTML5 sites, has been updated to version 2.0. You can find it in GitHub here. One…

NetSuite, a hosted ERP company that got its start selling to the SMB market, has stopped selling to small businesses. Bob Scott quotes…

Today, Wordnik officially announced Swagger, a specification and framework for building interactive API documentation and sandboxes. The…

Real-time analytics company Mixpanel has posted an explanation on its engineering blog as to why the company switched the code of its API…

Heroku users, or would be Heroku users, interested in using the graph database Neo4j will be happy to know that an addon that lets Neo4j…