In its 2015 report, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) identified SQL injection and cross-site scripting among its Top 10 software vulnerabilities. Again. If it feels as if you’ve been reading this same story for the last decade, it’s because you have. So why is it that we can build intelligent robots, fling unmanned … continue reading
The championship game is in the books, and the winner of SD Times March Developer Madness is #4 seed Service Virtualization! After a tournament full of surprises, upsets and all eight top seeds going down, Service Virtualization cruised through the Final 4 with convincing wins over cinderella #8 seed NoSQL and #3 seed APIs in … continue reading
Changing your application development culture to embrace mobility is akin to moving from a Soviet-style economy to laissez-faire: It’s mind-blowing. That’s how significant it is to understand and implement all that writing applications for mobile devices entails, according to Forrester analyst Jeffrey Hammond, who spoke to me about the changes facing developers in today’s world … continue reading
Many developers today work on at least two screens: The first is their beloved IDE, where their code is constructed; the second has to do with communication – typically email. It’s on this second screen where Rally Software hopes to gain a foothold with the release this week of Flowdock Enterprise, intended to bring work … continue reading
Microservices can be seen as neurons in the brain, controlled by a cortex that provides processing context to the service. That’s the vision of Nashua, N.H.-based startup Pneuron (the p is silent), which has created a platform that interacts with underlying data and application systems, without the need for upfront, heavyweight aggregation and query writing. … continue reading
Service-oriented architecture—the notion of using loosely coupled Web services components that can plug into applications as needed to add functionality—remains a solid foundation underlying today’s cloud-based computing. But the use of REST APIs has superseded enterprise service buses and SOAP-based Web services, so the term SOA has fallen out of favor even as its basic … continue reading
The most important change in how custom software is created these days has nothing to do with programming languages, development environments, agile methodologies or code repositories. Instead, it’s about taking a horizontal approach to application development, which allows for shared resources, composite pieces and staying up to date. That’s the view of Matt Calkins, CEO … continue reading
As agile practices, Continuous Integration and other new methodologies come into development environments, organizations have come to realize they need to change the way they test software. Among the changes highlighted in a recent survey of more than 500 developers by Dimensional Research and sponsored by Sauce Labs are that organizations are doing more automated … continue reading
Another trip around the industry: Companies are spanning testing, Big Data, collaboration, integration and more. And all were touting the same initiatives, providing businesses with solutions that improve the quality and mobility of enterprise software. Altova, which for so many years has focused on development tools around XML, last year released Mobile Together, a platform … continue reading
A change at the top, followed by a clearly defined focus, with an all-out embrace of open technologies and an increased update release cycle. Throw in a further commitment to consumer devices for good measure. One could argue that 2014 was the year of Microsoft. Or, at least, the year it remade itself. But it … continue reading
Software vulnerabilities have existed for as long as there has been software. Organizations and their developers have been locked in a cat-and-mouse game with the legion of hackers looking to steal data. Every time one breach is fixed, another is exploited, and ‘round and ‘round it goes. So, after Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden, … continue reading
Altova today announced the commercial release of MobileTogether, its application development environment for cross-platform deployment that organizations can use to create enterprise solutions for their workforces. MobileTogether enables users to access internal databases, processes, charts, and graphs to create such things as dashboards and forms for mobile workers. The platform provides connectivity to relational databases, … continue reading
