In much the same way that Java replaced C++ 15 years ago as the dominant programming language for enterprise software, Web development technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript and others might supplant traditional programming languages today, according to an Oracle software executive. The reason for the shift is that new Web […]
Daily Archives: June 25, 2012
Pervasive Software has this month released Data Integrator v10 – Hadoop Edition to the Apache Hadoop user community with a view to helping the flow of data both to and from Hadoop-based big data stores. The argument here is that developers are now tasked with integrating big data sets into […]
The last few weeks I’ve been playing with the BeagleBone — an inexpensive little Linux box aimed at embedded systems. Naturally, you can program it as you would any similar board using C, C++, or a variety of other Linux languages. However, I’ve been probing into how much use the […]
Microsoft has been using its TechEd 2012 developer and user conference this June to woo the Orlando crowds with news of Team Foundation Service, Windows LightSwitch, and Windows RT (Windows on ARM) for ARM-based tablet devices. Corporate developer division VP Jason Zander has detailed, as is his usual way, the […]