We were all warned by Apple and those of us who SIM unlocked our iPhones knew there was the risk that they could never be updated. Apparently, lots of people even some who should have known better must have thought Apple's notice was just a false warning since they tried...

Services oriented architectures SOAs are not only forcing a new way of looking at how to construct applications and composite services -- SOA is now changing the meaning of what custom applications are and how they will be acquired. And this change has significant ramifications for IT developers, architects and...

Yesterday Cynergy, one of the top Flex development firms, announced that they will be jumping into Silverlight development. They are the first major RIA development firm I know of to publically put support behind Silverlight. A lot of the design agencies have been working with Silverlight for a...

Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Borland Software.Many people have defined software development as more art than science -- sometimes even a dark art. Thats why the business side of an enterprise is often perplexed by the Application Lifecycle Management ALM process. They see what goes in as...

Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Borland Software, Inc.Application development is maturing to embrace a more holistic approach to application lifecycle processes, one that emphasizes policy-based approaches -- managing process and people -- and not just the technology. Such a coordinated approach also fosters feedback efficiencies, where testing...

Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: 6th Sense Analytics.Some 9.5 million developers around the world are toiling away, and their bosses -- either individually or collectively -- have rather small insight and limited information about what they do and how they do it. We see requirements go in...

Read a transcript of the podcast.Borland Software recently released its Lifecycle Quality Management LQM initiative, which applies quality assurance to the entire applications design process, with special emphasis in the requirements phase.Of course, quality is not just about the code, its about quality of process, methodology, and of getting the...

Todays launch of Apex, a new on-demand development platform that runs on its own multitenant infrastructure, is a daring move by Salesforce.com to sustain its breakneck growth by outsourcing future applications development to its partner and customer ecosystem. In the race to establish AppExchange as the operating system for the...