PaaS shoot-out: Cloud Foundry vs. OpenShift
Cloud Foundry shines with broad application support and stellar ease of use, but OpenShift has the edge in management and automation
Stories by Martin Heller
Review: Cloud Foundry brings power and polish to PaaS
Cloud Foundry impresses with broad application support, streamlined deployment, and enterprise extras from Pivotal, though initial setup could be simpler
First look: Famo.us remakes mobile app development
The Famo.us mobile Web framework runs faster than standard HTML and takes less development time than native code -- once you get up to speed
Jumping JavaScript! Hands-on with the Famo.us framework
Famo.us is an open source JavaScript framework for building high-performance mobile Web and hybrid mobile apps. The framework gets its speed and sizzle by replacing the browser's slow, DOM-based rendering mechanism with its own rendering engine and by tapping the GPU acceleration provided by CSS3's 3D transformation functions -- no plug-ins or native code required.
Do more with less: Lambda expressions in Java 8
Using lambda expressions can make your Java code leaner, more powerful, and easier to read
Nashorn: JavaScript made great in Java 8
JavaScript on the JVM is better and faster but not always friendlier with Nashorn, the rebuilt JavaScript interpreter
Google's tantalizing Mobile Chrome App SDK
Mobile app development is a huge pain point for most enterprises. The debate still rages about the best strategy. Should you develop native apps for the major smartphone and tablet platforms? That's expensive and time-consuming, and it means hiring hard-to-find specialists for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and any other platform you want to support. Should you develop mobile Web apps? That is faster and cheaper, but sacrifices both performance and features. Should you develop hybrid mobile apps, combining native app shells with Web views? That still sacrifices performance in some cases, but recovers the most important features.
In Pictures: 10 Android apps developers will love
From full-blown IDEs to essential resource utilities, these Android apps bring powerful programming features to phones and tablets
Review: Google Chrome wants to be your OS
The Chrome Apps architecture enables native-like apps, written in JavaScript with platform APIs, that load fast, run quickly, and work offline
Visual Studio 2013 reaches beyond the IDE
Microsoft delivers editing, debugging, deployment, project architecture, and ALM improvements stretching from Windows to Web development, from mobile devices to clouds
Review: 10 JavaScript editors and IDEs put to the test
WebStorm and Sublime Text lead a field of diverse and capable tools for JavaScript programming
Office 365 administration made easy
Going beyond Office 365's native admin GUI, 365 Command provides powerful Exchange admin capabilities without the need to run PowerShell
Review: Visual Studio 2013 reaches beyond the IDE
Microsoft delivers editing, debugging, deployment, project architecture, and ALM improvements stretching from Windows to Web development, from mobile devices to clouds
WebEx vs. GoToMeeting vs. MyTrueCloud
Thomas Friedman famously announced that "the world is flat" in his 2005 book of that name. He was writing about globalization. In Friedman's view, voice over Internet (VoIP), file sharing, and wireless were the "steroids" that have accelerated the flattening of global commerce. Today I would add video over Internet, which has become more and more prevalent as bandwidth has improved.
Review: Office 365 administration made easy
Going beyond Office 365's native admin GUI, 365 Command provides powerful Exchange admin capabilities without the need to run PowerShell