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Handheld devices such as the iPhone and iPod/Touch are portable repositories for a user’s personal data. The data may be documents, but it often takes the form of databases. For an iOS application to use a database, it relies on a Cocoa API known as “Core Data.” In this article, […]

SAP’s mobile technology strategy has ratcheted up a gear this week with the launch of a new glut of developer services and industry interconnections. Along with a free mobile developer license and the new SAP mobile apps partner program, there is also now support for integrating software development frameworks from […]

Two special interest groups within the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have highlighted the publication of a pair of research papers that “fundamentally changed” parallel computing in both theory and practice. The Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) and the Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS) […]

Oracle’s open source contingent appears to be driving forward with the Java development experience (as it is now known) with the release of the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 7.2 for Windows, Mac, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, and other Linux distributions. Still focused on a core message to programmers that […]

Atlassian has updated its JIRA issue and project tracking software for its 5.1 iteration release. New product elements see a broadening of scope with an issue collection feature to allow software developers to capture information from non-JIRA users. Small nuances across feature sets often count the most and that’s what […]

Last week, I noted that textbook authors who revise their books have a natural tendency to add new material in a small number of places rather than integrate it. This tendency tends to make it harder to learn from the book, and it is particularly troublesome when the new material […]

With Oracle OpenWorld scheduled to run from September 30 to October 4 this year, the eagle eyes of developers will now be turning towards San Francisco to scrutinize the effects of another year of Sun technologies under Larry Ellison’s parentage. News so far this month in this vein is interesting. […]

Recently I’ve been musing about C++ versus C. As predicted, a few people have told me that there is no way they will let anyone pry loose their beloved C compiler from their hands. I’ve said it before, and I’ll repeat it: I really do enjoy programming in C. But […]

Hewlett-Packard’s Enyo 2 open-source cross-platform object-oriented JavaScript application development framework has finally left its beta stage of development and is now classed a production ready. Stressing modularity and encapsulation as key operational characteristics, Enyo was originally conceived as a means of engendering application development for HP’s Linux-based webOS platform. According […]