PHP keepers plot radical revision of the language
Inspired by Facebook's efforts to speed performance of PHP, the core development team behind the popular open-source Web programming language has embarked on an effort to redesign PHP for faster...
View ArticleGoogle engineer: We need more Web programming languages
Web applications may one day surpass desktop applications in function and usability -- if developers have more programming languages to choose from, according to a Google engineer.
View ArticleBuild mobile apps directly within the Firefox browser
Programmers who may be curious about building mobile apps but aren't sure how to get started could get a hand from Mozilla, which is testing a new code editor, called WebIDE, which will be built into...
View ArticleWith components, Google agitates for a revolution in Web development
At the Google I/O conference this week, the company vigorously lobbied developers to adopt a new programming model, one that could, the company asserted, make it radically easier to build Web...
View ArticleRuby on Rails gets patches for SQL injection vulnerabilities
Two SQL injection vulnerabilities were patched in Ruby on Rails, a popular open-source Web development framework used by some high-profile websites.
View ArticleAppcelerator gears up for the business world
System administrators take note: That mobile employee expense app you're building should be every bit as easy to use as Facebook. Oh, and you better deliver it quickly too, because that's how Facebook...
View ArticleHTML5 finalized, finally
After nearly eight years of work, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has finalized the HTML5 standard, bringing the basic Web technology firmly into the era of mobile devices and cloud-driven rich...
View ArticleAmazon launches Lambda, an event-driven compute service
Continuing to roll out new compute services at an impressive clip, Amazon Web Services has introduced a way for programmers to trigger operations in their AWS deployments without running a full virtual...
View ArticleIBM brings more Watson smarts to developers
IBM is expanding its roster of Watson online services that can be deployed by developers to enhance their apps with analysis and data processing capabilities.
View ArticleMicrosoft, IBM get behind stewardship of Node.js Web runtime platform
Microsoft, IBM, and the Linux Foundation are among a number of organizations joining an initiative to manage Node.js, a popular runtime software that provides interactive Web interfaces for users.
View ArticleIBM brings BlueMix platform services in-house
The hybrid cloud will be the focus of this year's IBM Interconnect cloud computing conference, as the company rolls out new offerings designed to help enterprises extend their in-house operations.
View ArticleGoogle shares code to help server software digest HTTP/2
Potentially offering a boost for web server software worldwide, Google has released as open source a framework for HTTP/2, the newly updated standard for transmitting Web pages and Web applications...
View ArticleRactive aims to bring Web programming to the masses
The developers of a JavaScript library for building interactive user interfaces are hoping their work will make Web programming more accessible for part-time programmers.
View ArticleMicrosoft makes debugging PHP less painful with new Azure tool
Microsoft is equipping its Azure cloud service with a tool to debug PHP-based Web applications that are running on the platform.
View ArticleApigee adds some Swagger to API design
For developers who want to expose their Web applications to other computers and Internet services, API platform vendor Apigee is offering a free online tool to help create APIs using the increasingly...
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