When it comes to the Silicon Valley, there are two titans that make all the decisions: CTOs and venture capitalists. At least one newly minted VC finds that being a CTO is quite similar to being an investor. Steve Herrod was VMware’s founding technologist, having developed the virtualization technology behind the company while at Stanford. … continue reading
Typically, this time of year is when Atlassian hosts its developer and user summit in San Francisco. Those dates were pushed back a few months due to scheduling issues, but that didn’t stop Atlassian from releasing road-map information for Bitbucket, as well as new customer information about the platform and product. Eric Wittman, vice president … continue reading
A major flaw in Android operating systems between version 5.0 and 5.1.1 was revealed last week. University of Texas security researcher John Gordon posted information on the hack, along with a video of him using the exploit to reach the main screen of a locked phone. The hack itself involves exploiting a buffer overflow in … continue reading
Apple has removed a bevy of malicious applications from its iTunes App Store today. While there is no official word on how many applications were removed, according to Reuters, Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 Technology wrote on its blog that it has detected 344 tainted apps in the App Store. These apps were all infected … continue reading
Let’s compare, if we can for a moment, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. This week, San Francisco played host to its largest conference ever, when 170,000 people attended Dreamforce. Next month, a whole lot of people will be attending Oracle OpenWorld as well. I expect somewhere between 50,000 and 75,000. Any … continue reading
Embarcadero Technologies yesterday released an add-on pack for its IDEs. This pack, known as the RAD Solution Pack, includes all of Embarcadero’s VCL and FMX components for use with RAD Studio, Delphi and C++Builder. Michael Swindell, senior vice president of products at Embarcadero, said, “Developers today require a variety of components when building modern business … continue reading
When you turned in your senior project in college, was any of it actually used in the real world? At the University of California, Berkeley’s Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, students are building not only their own futures, but that of Fortune 100 companies and of the people of India. Solomon Darwin, director of the … continue reading
While Salesforce.com has spent years advocating for closer and tighter customer interactions, it was the 1-to-1 ratio that was highlighted primarily at Dreamforce this week. That 1-to-1 interaction of individual customer and individual employee was presented as the essential experience for the future of software. “Salesforce is turning the Internet of Things into the Internet … continue reading
Salesforce.com took over San Francisco this week when its annual Dreamforce conference brought more than 170,000 attendees to the city. That number made it the largest software conference in the city’s history, dwarfing Oracle OpenWorld. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, took the stage during yesterday’s keynote to discuss the company’s future. “Next year…Salesforce will be … continue reading
When Apache Hadoop burst onto the scene, it changed the game not only for batch processing and data storage, but also for analytics. Tableau was one of the first visual analytics companies to support Hadoop, and now it’s feeling a similar tug from Apache Spark and the streaming revolution. Dustin Smith, product marketing manager at … continue reading
Steve Yegge recently posted a piece where he took to task his own predictions from 2004. I thought it would be fun to take a gander at some of the predictions pundits have made about programming over the years, and see just how wrong or right they were. If you’ve spent any time at all … continue reading
Apple introduces a number of new products this week, but behind all of them was the new 3D Touch technology. This UI paradigm adds a number of tap-types to the users’ retinue of touches and gestures, but what does it mean for developers? Al Hilwa, program director for software development research at IDC, said, “3D … continue reading
