Every developer wants to create great software that users can appreciate. Unfortunately, creating software that disappoints is easy. Conversely, creating high-quality software that users will appreciate is hard. Fortunately there are a number of things you can do and tools you can use to create high-quality software. This article will talk about those things that … 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
Businesses want to stay competitive, but in today’s world of software development it can be a struggle. In order to be successful, businesses need to deliver software that loads quickly, performs well, and provides a great user experience, and they have to do it fast. It is no longer acceptable for a business to deliver … continue reading
Xamarin announces free platform for students Mobile developer tool provider Xamarin has announced a new program to give students free access to Xamarin Studio. According to a blog post from Xamarin cofounder and director of developer relations Joseph Hill, Xamarin for Students is accessible to any student enrolled in a degree or diploma-granting course of … continue reading
ZendCon 2014, Santa Clara, Calif. – Zend, the PHP Company, today announced the “next wave” of agility-focused offerings, enabling enterprises to deliver applications more quickly, while delivering on bottom-line business value. The product and pattern offerings meet an across-the-board market demand by extending the Continuous Delivery ecosystem, allowing companies to quickly develop and deliver quality web, … continue reading
Docker is putting its investment capital to good use with today’s acquisition/hiring of Koality. The move, while based on the quality of the team at Koality, is not intended to bring continuous integration products to Docker, however. Instead, the Koality team will be rebuilding Docker Hub for behind-the-firewall deployments at enterprises. Before the acquisition, Koality … continue reading
As agile practices continue to gain momentum, and as delivery deadlines grow shorter, the ability to quickly fix bugs and add features is imperative. Despite the hype, not all organizations have adopted Continuous Integration (CI) yet. While continuous builds and CI practices are becoming more common—and a smaller percentage of companies have embraced Continuous Delivery … continue reading
We are witnessing a transformation in application development tools and techniques that is changing how enterprise software is being constructed and deployed. This transformation is the broadening of mobile application development approaches initially instigated by the mobile revolution (yes, the iPhone changed everything) to embrace initiatives for back-end Internet of Things architectures and even employee … continue reading
Apple’s iOS 8 is here, and it will be a game-changer. No operating system on the planet gets adopted faster than a new iOS release. If iOS 7 was any indication (60% of users upgraded just a few days after release), iOS 8 may set new records. Even before worrying about adding new capabilities to … continue reading
Cloud-based Continuous Integration is a scary proposition, what with all the security breaches in the news lately. For enterprises that aren’t prepared to completely commit to cloud-based CI and Continuous Delivery, Shippable has released version 2.0 of its self-titled CI platform today, which for the first time includes the ability to deploy in hybrid or … continue reading
Perforce’s founder explains what he and his company have been observing in the application development life cycle … continue reading
Speeding up development won’t mean quality will improve. How do we mitigate the negative effects of faster development? … continue reading
