MIT Brain Who Beat the Casinos Launches Service to Quantify Developer Performance
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…
tools
Articles tagged "Tools"
Thu, 31 May 2012
Wed, 16 May 2012
Loomio: Making Better Decisions Remotely Possible
Email, instant messaging, forums, code forges and other collaboration tools make it possible for distributed teams to get work done - but…
Tue, 27 March 2012
Revenge of the DevOps: Microsoft Targets Next Visual Studio for Admins Too
You've heard this from ReadWriteWeb for the past several months: The exodus to the cloud for enterprise services and resources is moving…
Fri, 17 February 2012
Umbraco CMS' Latest Reinvention Finally Complete
One other way to think of a "content management system" is as a database engineered to present data in a rich and navigable format. As…
Mon, 6 February 2012
HP Aims to Redefine Apps Performance Testing with Cloud Platform
When mobile users feel they don't like how their apps perform after the first trial, some 75% of them won't launch the app again. That's…
Thu, 8 December 2011
The Fruit of SproutCore's Labor Will Live On as Amber.js
Last month, the team responsible for the creation of SproutCore, one of the more successful of many JavaScript libraries for Web application…
Wed, 30 November 2011
Silverlight Stall: Microsoft Says Final Word on v5 'in the Coming Weeks'
Spokespersons for Microsoft and all other sources on the subject are remaining mum today, after an unofficial general release deadline of…
Tue, 29 November 2011
Collabnet Connect Offers New Integrated Dev Tools
Today, CollabNet announced Connect, its new integration framework to provide app dev orchestration and management. The big news here is…
Mon, 28 November 2011
Built-in Dev Tools in Firefox 10 Look More Chrome-ish
For most of its existence, Firebug has been the de facto JavaScript developers' console for Firefox; and for several years, most Web…
Tue, 22 November 2011
New Relic Expands Performance Monitoring as a Service with Python
How exactly should you gain visibility into the performance levels your customers are seeing when they use your Web applications? One…
Mon, 31 October 2011
Sisyphus: Add Gmail-like Saving to Your Site's Forms
Modern browsers are, generally speaking, so much better about stability than they used to be. Still, who hasn't had a browser crash in the…
Fri, 28 October 2011
17 Alternatives to Klout
As we wrote about earlier this week, Klout has reworked its algorithms, and your scores have changed. Some have gone up, some down…
Fri, 21 October 2011
MySQL Leads Open Source Market Share
Jelastic.com, the Java PaaS similar to Heroku, has compiled an interesting market share analysis of their more than 1,000 developers…
Mon, 10 October 2011
Latest SAP Mobile Apps Show Progress for Sybase Platform on HTML5
Despite having been generally available for mobile systems like iOS for over two-and-a-half years now, you don't hear much about something…
Dart is to JavaScript as C# is to C++
Given the background of Lars Bak, the Google engineer whose V8 JavaScript interpreter upended Firefox's claim on speed, it was reasonable to…
Wed, 5 October 2011
Oracle Pushes Its Idea of JavaFX, Replaces Script with XML
Is HTML5 a common platform for rich Internet applications, or a common toolkit for building rich applications on varying platforms…
Thu, 29 September 2011
Sencha Likes IE10: A Native Apps Library for JS is Coming
The big question among Web developers has been whether browser and platform makers are simply leveraging HTML5 as an open-ended means to a…
Wed, 28 September 2011
A Look at Phabricator: Facebook's Web-Based Open Source Code Collaboration Tool
It's been out for a while, but hasn't gotten a lot of attention. Facebook released Phabricator earlier this summer, an open source…
Mon, 26 September 2011
Microsoft Makes the Case for More jQuery, Fewer Dependencies
In a Best Practices online advisory to browser-based Web site developers published last week, Microsoft paints a compelling picture for…
Thu, 22 September 2011
Armed with a Win8 Tablet, YoYo Games Marches Toward HTML5
Last week in Anaheim, in amongst the crowd of developers at Microsoft's Build 2011 conference assimilating the news about Windows 8, was a…
Fri, 16 September 2011
Build 2011: Microsoft's Scott Guthrie on XAML Without Silverlight
We've probably all worked in organizations where we've been put in charge of projects we believed in with all our hearts and half our…
Wed, 14 September 2011
Build 2011: Microsoft - WinRT is the Windows Platform
"My experience in talking with developers is that they want to take advantage of these form factors. You know what I'm saying? If you take…
Tue, 13 September 2011
Build 2011: HTML5 + JS 'First-Class Citizens,' Silverlight Takes a Back Seat
The new development platform for so-called Metro apps is called WinRT, short for Windows Runtime. Its name suggests its potential future…
Thu, 8 September 2011
Node.js Contest Winner Peers Into Web Site Users' Behavior
It was a pretty straightforward challenge: Design and build the most comprehensive application you can in just 48 hours' time. The…
