Aussie made iPhone app hits world record sales
Melbourne-based mobile phone game development company, Firemint, has announced that its six-month-old, top-selling iPhone application, Flight Control, has reached over 1.5 million sales.
Melbourne-based mobile phone game development company, Firemint, has announced that its six-month-old, top-selling iPhone application, Flight Control, has reached over 1.5 million sales.
Everyone, it seems, has a mobile SDK. Apple has one for its iPhone. Likewise, Google, Microsoft, Palm, and RIM each have one for their mobile OSes. Then there are the third-party, multiplatform mobile dev toolkits such as Rhomobile Rhodes, Nitobi PhoneGap, Appcelerator Titanium, and Ansca Corona, plus the Eclipse Foundation's forthcoming Pulsar.
Move over, Java. There's more to the Java Virtual Machine than just the Java language these days -- and the field of languages for JVM is growing.
Oracle's executive vice president of product development, Charles Rozwat, is taking a one-year leave of absence and his responsibilities will be assumed by Thomas Kurian, currently senior vice president of Fusion middleware.
Microsoft is extending its "Community Promise" patent licensing to C# programs and Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), enabling open source usage of the technologies without fear of any reprisals.
Atlassian this week introduced FishEye 2, which adds social networking capabilities to source code repositories, including Subversion and CVS, and boosts agile programming projects.
Use of the Ruby programming language increased 40 percent among North American software developers in an Evans Data survey being unveiled on Tuesday.
Software companies are eager to hop on the agile development train, providing wares to help clients leverage agile development processes such as Scrum in their IT shops.
Borland Software, which is in the process of being acquired by Micro Focus, continues to release products bearing the company nameplate.
Engine Yard, which has offered services for the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails, has taken over maintenance responsibilities for an older release of the language.
Why, when people were trying to get me to switch from Windows to a Mac, did no one tell me about AppleScript?
Offering assistance with application security, Microsoft is extending on Tuesday its Security Development Lifecycle processes to its Visual Studio Team System for application lifecycle management.
For the Ruby language to avoid the same ill fate as Smalltalk, developers must use test-driven development to keep code clean, an industry executive stressed Wednesday evening at the RailsConf 2009 event in Las Vegas.
Microsoft said it plans to acquire gaming company BigPark for an undisclosed amount.
Population growth figures for software developers have been revised downward by an analyst firm because of the current state of the economy.