CW Developer Network
The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network.
July 2012
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Programmer's paradise: two months on a tropical island
30 Jul 2012 -
When (service) virtualisation imitates life
27 Jul 2012 -
Cloud development kudos lies in 'enhanced' multi-tenancy
25 Jul 2012
It's a well-worn stereotype, the solitary programmer (C programmers you know who you are) punching away at the keyboard in solitary confinement surrounded only by a lifetime supply of Pepsi and pizza.
CA Technologies (the artist formerly known as Computer Associates) has this week gone public on a study entitled 'Business Benefits of Service Virtualization', which has found that conventional ...
People, users, customers, lawyers and (possibly even) software application developers appear to have been worried about cloud security for some time now.
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How do we make video collaboration ubiquitous?
22 Jul 2012 -
The future of mobile is cloud-based & server-side
20 Jul 2012 -
Free iPad app for secure enterprise-level single sign-on, really?
12 Jul 2012 -
Balancing apps against cloud storage limitations
10 Jul 2012 -
To kill a (non) mocking Agile software application developer
09 Jul 2012 -
Help! my boarding pass has no software integration
06 Jul 2012 -
Subversion to GIT; a change in direction?
05 Jul 2012
Unified communications company Polycom is aiming to make video-based collaboration technologies "even more" ubiquitous across major industry segments.
The new and much more concentrated focus on the server-side infrastructures means that we may now see more importance put on not only reusable code, but also preconfigured mobile app services and ...
Programmers working at the coalface of cloud services development just now will no doubt have the words "secure access to corporate data via mobile" ringing in their ears at some point.
On 28th June 2011, Microsoft released a significant upgrade to its cloud services portfolio - Microsoft Office 365 - an online collaboration and productivity tool, which includes Microsoft ...
As Agile software application development has become more popular in recent times we have (by no coincidence) logically seen the rise of extended code analysis tools in the Agile space.
... I sometimes wonder how they justify operating what should be pretty seamless systems to look after our bookings, when things can go so wrong.
If software configuration and change management (SCCM) tools had never existed, then we may arguably have gone on interminably without the speed and efficiency benefits that version control systems ...
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The PC is dead; long live the 'cloud monitor'
01 Jul 2012
Will PC's (as we once knew them) die out now that the cloud computing model of service-based software application delivery and virtualised data storage and management has taken hold?