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Will ASP.NET Stop ColdFusion In its Hat-trick Pursuit at GIDA 2010?
The SaaS revolution has given birth to a myriad of web based applications and tools to develop them. Here’s a look at the tools that Indian developers are most comfortable with.
JBoss Fights to Retain Its Title in the Testing Tools Category
Testing is emerging into a healthy industry and an established discipline. The global software testing market is worth USD $13 billion. The number of tools available in the current market can be rather disillusioning. The Great Indian Developer Awards intends to put things into perspective. Here is a look at the final list of nominees in the Testing Tools category.
CA, Microsoft, IBM and CollabNet Lock Horns in the Change & Configuration Management Tools Category
Enterprise-level Change and Configuration Management Tools have been gaining popularity in recent times but guru’s of this domain say that its all about picking the right tool for the right enterprise. The Indian developer ecosystem has chosen their top 5 tools in this category for the Developer Summit Awards 2010. Read on to find out more.
Drupal Battles Content Management Goliaths at India's Premier Software Developer Awards
The Great Indian Developer Awards – The only democratic definitive award ceremony dedicated to trailblazing technologies, organizations and individuals in the software industry. Here’s a peek into the final list of nominees in the Content Management Tools Category.
Citrix and WebEx Wrestle Microsoft Might in the Collaboration Tools Category at Developer Summit Awards 2010
It has been said that with time either transportation or communication will obliterate the other. In that context collaboration tools are a jewel in communication’s arsenal. Enterprises of today massively depend on collaboration tools to increase productivity, ensure cost savings and mitigate logistical headaches. Citrix, WebEx and Microsoft have found their way into the Indian developer’s workstation and therefore on to the final shortlist of Developer Summit Awards 2010
IBM, Microsoft, Eclipse and Adobe Vie for IDE Glory at India's Premier Software Developer Awards
Microsoft Expression Studio, Adobe Flex Builder, Eclipse, IBM Rational Application Developer and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 make their way to the top as India’s Software Developers passionately vote to choose winners of India’s No. 1 independent software development awards show. Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Oracle JDeveloper were winners in this category in 2009 and 2008 respectively.
Microsoft Stages Comeback to Mobile Game with Windows Phone Series 7
The new platform effectively scraps Windows Mobile 6.x with a completely revamped user interface and more tightly defined integration with devices and networks. This is a clear indication of Microsoft’s intention to start afresh and reclaim the market share that they’ve been consistently losing to Google’s Android, RIM, the iPhone OS and Symbian. It attempts to rectify all that has gone wrong with Microsoft’s previous ventures to gain control in the mobile software universe
Features Coming Up in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010, codenamed Hawaii, is now slated to be released on April 12, 2010, postponed from March 22 as previously announced. Release Candidate versions of Visual Studio 2010 Premium, Visual Studio 2010 Professional and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate have been released to testers. As the world's developer base waits for the official release candidate of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 here is a preview of the latest features.
Five Social Software Predictions for 2010 and Beyond
Here are five ways in which social media and social software will evolve to exert its influence on the enterprise. These predictions focus on offerings ranging from team collaboration to dynamic social networking applications that offer rich profiles and activity streams. Specifically, social networking services will replace e-mail as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications, enterprises will use popular social activity streams but with lower penetration, a majority of IT-dominated social media initiatives will fail through 2012, collaboration and communications apps designed on PCs will increasingly imitate similar mobile applications, and enterprises will routinely reduce utilising social network analysis to improve performance and productivity.
How India's Java Developers can Code iPhone Applications with Objective-C
iPhone development is all the rage both in the mobile entertainment, social networking and productivity application spaces. For developers looking for a workaround to Apple's restrictions on using Java for iPhone app development, GIDS' Matthew McCullough is coming to India this summer with the perfect answer -- Objective-C, and integration with RESTful Grails and other popular Java Web Service back-ends
State of Game Development in India
If there is one software sector that India has not yet capitalized on entirely it is the game development domain. This is bound to change as the Indian gaming industry is poised to see two-digit growth in the 2010. The development of technological infrastructure in terms of wide broadband networks, DTH services and the recent introduction of 3G complements the growing gaming industry. The lack of sufficient training has been a deterrent for large gaming studios to outsource to India, however. But all that's set to change now
Busting Common Myths about Developer Productivity
Many traditional assumptions about software development have been challenged in recent years. Agile processes and service oriented architectures are two examples of this. An area that has...
Busting Common Myths about Developer Productivity Many traditional assumptions about software development have been challenged in recent years. Agile processes and service oriented architectures are two examples of this. An area that has... .NET Gotchas Workshop by Venkat Subramaniam: Part III Programmers working on the .NET framework know the power and increased productivity that comes with it, says Dr. Venkat Submramaniam. Like any development, however, there are things that... Silverlight Deep Dive Workshop by Todd Anglin: Part III Do you want to truly understand Silverlight? If so, do not miss this three-hour workshop that will cover everything from Silverlight basics to advanced topics like cross-site XHR. In the... .NET Gotchas Workshop: Part II There are several things that one should pay attention to while programming on .NET, says Dr. Venkat Submramaniam. Are there things in .NET that, if we do not pay attention to, may result... Silverlight Deep Dive Workshop: Part II Do you want to truly understand Silverlight? If so, do not miss this three-hour workshop that will cover everything from Silverlight basics to advanced topics like cross-site XHR. In the... Dr. Venkat Subramaniam's .NET Gotchas Workshop: Part I Those of us programming on the .NET framework have come to realize the power and increased productivity that comes with it, says Dr. Venkat Submramaniam. Like any development, however,... Todd Anglin's Silverlight Deep Dive Workshop: Part I Do you want to truly understand Silverlight? If so, do not miss this three-hour workshop that will cover everything from Silverlight basics to advanced topics like cross-site XHR. During...