software development in pictures

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  Android apps for developers and IT pros, at a glance

• Intel opens software development center in Romania

  By Agam Shah | 09 November, 2010 07:13

  Intel on Monday opened a research and development center in Bucharest that will focus on software development.

• New Microsoft Partner Network program springs into action

  By Julia Talevski | 02 November, 2010 17:43

  Software giant, Microsoft, has revamped its Partner Network program, which comes into effect this month.

• A 'fat-free' programming framework for the cloud

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 June, 2010 07:18

  Researchers in the U.K. are developing a lean-and-mean programming framework called Mirage that is designed specifically to support applications running on cloud infrastructure platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine.

• 'Many thousands' of pre-release Windows Phone 7 handsets prepped for developers

  By John Cox | 18 June, 2010 07:50

  Microsoft is confirming that "many thousands" of pre-release Windows Phone 7 handsets will be given to selected developers starting in July, but confusion over how that will be done continues.

• OpenCL 1.1 ratified by The Khronos Group

  By Agam Shah | 15 June, 2010 04:09

  The Khronos Group has ratified OpenCL 1.1, a programming standard for parallel execution of tasks across multicore processors, the standards-setting organization said on Monday.

• MasterCard to cater to developers with APIs, portal

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 26 May, 2010 05:48

  MasterCard is launching a program for external developers interested in tapping into some of the credit card giant's internal payment and data services to create applications.

• Operator mobile app push sets timeline

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 06 May, 2010 00:50

  The first applications based on the work done by the Wholesale Applications Community will arrive in February next year, but meanwhile developers can get to work in September, the organization said Wednesday.

• Twitter courts developers with new tools

  By James Niccolai | 15 April, 2010 07:31

  Twitter is promising new tools for developers to help them make better use of the 55 million tweets being pumped out every day by people who use its service.

• Programmers who defined the tech industry: Where are they now?

  By Esther Schindler | 04 November, 2010 10:45

  Some early programmer names are familiar to even the most novice of software developers. You may never have seen a line of code written by Bill Gates, or written any application in BASIC (much less for the Altair). But you know Gates' name, and the names of a few others.

• Dev/Test in the Cloud: Rules for Getting it Right

  By Bernard Golden | 02 November, 2009 10:25

  In last week's post, I discussed why dev/test can be a good first use of cloud computing. Without rehashing the entire post, it's clear that dev/test is often hampered in its activities by the difficulty of getting enough computing resources to its job.

• King of the dynamic IDEs

  By James R. Borck | 27 February, 2009 08:48

  Komodo IDE 5 from ActiveState is the most comprehensive code editor and debugger available for enterprise teams that develop applications using a range of dynamic languages. Komodo's strong debugging skills are blended with broad-based coding support for Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby, not to mention Tcl, Java, C, C++, Visual Basic, and many more. With powerful HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and XML support, Komodo is a great Web 2.0 companion as well.