This unified development environment compiles JavaScript into Objective-C or Java, and will support iPad at launch Visit website for full story...

The sub-projects are designed to help organizations adopt agile ALM, and they will also bring diversity to Mylyn Visit website for full story...

Experts say that until cloud security standards mature and are adopted more widely, adoption will be tepid Visit website for full story...

Greater specialization and an increased focus on accessibility is forcing developers to reconsider how they design interfaces Visit website for full story...

Portfolio Manager lets developers visualize interrelationships between business imperatives and their candidates Visit website for full story...

Speakers at new software development conference emphasize sticking to basic principles and design patterns Visit website for full story...

The company claims it has solved the complexity of measuring software function points, potentially saving much time and money Visit website for full story...

Portfolio Manager visualizes interrelationships between business imperatives and candidate services to help in planning Visit website for full story...

Mobile phone operators are joining together to compete with commercial smartphone app stores Visit website for full story...

NaturalONE aims to preserve Natural's install base by appealing to Java developers working with existing applications Visit website for full story...

Embed-X lets users define workflows required to meet project objectives, and has support for several development standards Visit website for full story...

Busy, busy month for those of you keeping score, and I don’t mean the final gold medal count. But, now that I’ve nodded to the Olympics, congratulations to both team Canada and team USA on the best hockey game I’ve ever seen. Ever. And I’m from Boston, home of the sometimes brilliant Bruins. No, the game I’ve been watching is a tectonic shift of cloud ecosystem money moves toward application mobility... Put yourself in my place; It is exciting to see this broad swath of really, really smart people betting large on application mobility as a critical factor in the cloud market's evolution. Sand Hill investors, old-iron scavengers in search of a makeover, and virtualization royalty alike are rolling money at application mobility. And that's good news for me. Why? Because people will begin to ask questions such as, "Why not move the OS and the App in a VM? Doesn't OVF make this all work across VMs from Xen to VMware from KVM to Hyper-V? Has anyone heard a success reported?"

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The Eclipse Foundation today announced a series of moves for its Mylyn project, including a number of sub-projects and support for web services standards efforts.
- The Eclipse Foundation today announced a series of moves for its Mylyn project, including a number of sub-projects and support for web services standards efforts. Eclipse officials said the new initiatives support the ongoing growth of the Eclipse Mylyn ecosystem. The open source Mylyn project is a...

Expo, of which Microsoft is a Gold sponsor and one of the biggest exhibitors (out of over 70 leading Cloud companies exhibiting), came out of the corner swinging. Specifically Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer, gave a speech on Thursday to computer science students at the University of Washington. He discussed what’s ahead for computing, with a focus on how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology.

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The latest release of this test automation software supports behavior-driven development and allows for common languages Visit website for full story...

The company's newest tool suite is designed to help development shops employ agile practices as they please Visit website for full story...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whom most people know as an English poet, also wrote some very nice prose about words. For example he was the one who summed up poetry itself as being about, above all, choosing "the best possible words in the best possible order."

Another fellow who knew a thing or two about words was a predecessor of mine - by a few hundred years! - at Trinity College, Cambridge. His name was Archbishop Richard Chevenix Trench and he produced, among another things, a little volume call On The Study of Words. This was back in 1852.

At one point in this book, Trench is musing on the power of words and, in particular, the role that words play in paving the way for the public acceptance of ideas.

Some ideas, he notes, just don't seem to catch on until the right words are found to "nail" them down.

I was strongly reminded of Coleridge, and of Trench, when interviewing a technology CEO the other day about Cloud Computing. Because this particular CEO seemed to be a beacon of light amid the murky fog surrounding Cloud Computing. And what stuck in my mind particularly was his ability, just as Archbishop Trench noted, to "nail down" the essential value proposition of Cloud Computing.

One new term that he used and that struck me as particularly insightful was this: "Resource Cloud."

This term definitely resonates immediately with me as being one that will not just help, it will triumph. Instead of talking of hardware, of physical servers, what the world needs to do is think of there as existing a "Resource Cloud" in which providers of resources and consumers who use compute power are matched up.

"Those consumers don't need to know, and indeed don't care, where the resources are," said my CEO. "So let the providers with the hardware push it into the cloud while the consumers consume it by creating virtual machines."

He continued:
"'I need X terabytes of storage at this kind of performance level, let us say Grade A performance, and I need 30 CPU cores,' the consumer might say, and the providers will run the hardware necessary to supply that need. IT runs the hardware side, but it doesn't manage the virtual side. That is done by the customer at via their Virtual Data Center."
So this is his vision, the vision also known loosely as "Virtualization 2.0"

But to my ear, "Resource Cloud" is the stronger metaphor, with more likelihood of catching on. And in 21 days' time I will revisit this posting to add the name of the CEO concerned. He already has established himself as thought leader in the world of technology. I haven't a doubt that he will come very soon to be recognized too as the man who put datacenter virtualization on the map forever and for always with the introduction of this one colloquy: REsource Cloud."

What do you think? Is it the best term? Do you have a better one?

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The JDev11gPS1 New Features page lists a large amount of improvements, including something called the "Declaration Insight". The New Features blurb lists this feature as "When declaring local variables from method calls, declaration insight can automatically add the declaration and assignment code as well as completing the method call." Like us, if you're using JDev11gPS1 you've probably already stumbled upon this feature and not realized it. You'll be familiar with the traditional Completion Insight. Say in an EntityImpl you're implementing a method and within you want to call the super class method to get the database transaction. However you've forgotten the function name, is it getDBTransaction or getDatabaseTransaction? This is easily solvable by starting to type the function name "getD" then activating Completion Insight, either via pressing Ctrl-Space or the Source menu's same named option. The editor will show the Completion Insight popup in blue with all the functions starting with "getD" in the super class stack, including the method we’re interested in getDBTransaction.

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Microsoft's acquisition of the Teamprise assets from SourceGear is bearing fruit with the release of a beta of Visual Studio Team Explorer.
- Microsoft's acquisition of the Teamprise assets from SourceGear is bearing fruit with the release of a beta of Visual Studio Team Explorer. Microsoft acquired the assets of Teamprise in November 2009 to cater to customers who wanted to use Microsoft's TFS (Team Foundation Server) for applicatio...

Adobe has announced that its photo editing system for smartphones, the Photshop.com Mobile editor, is now available for Android application developers.
- Adobe has announced that its photo editing system for smartphones, the Photshop.com Mobile editor, is now available for Android application developers. Adobe said third-party application developers now have access to the Photoshop.com Mobile for Android 1.1 editor. In addition, Photoshop.com Mo...