Mobile applications for iPhone and Android smartphones are where the excitement is today in application development. There are plenty of customers (Canalys says there were almost 8 million Android ...

Cazenovia College needed to appear bigger than it was. Four years ago the 900-student liberal arts school, based in Cazenovia, N.Y., decided it could better use technology – particularly its Web site ...

As a meta-framework, Astro.js takes a different approach to developing web applications. Start here with a few critical design decisions. Astro.js is among the most popular meta-frameworks for ...

We stack up four development environments for creating Web-based applications. Find out which one best suits your needs. Over the past few years, there has been a tremendous shift from "fat client" ...

Ever thought what turns a good idea into a working application? The short and simple answer to this question is selecting the right framework. As Python has gained popularity among web development ...

I miss programming. For years, I developed software for large companies, first using Lotus Notes and then Macromedia Flash. I have spent the past three years in a totally nonprogramming job, ...

Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) has been incubating at IBM since 2002 and is a successor to CSP from the eighties and then VisualAge Generator. It was developed with the typical business ...

Apple's App Store approval process has always been a bit controversial because of the level of control the company holds over what types of applications are allowed in. Initially, there were concerns ...

Do you recall the days when downloading an application was the only option for getting the best out of the digital realm?

Google has launched Google Gears, an open source platform that allows online properties -- such as Gmail and any other Web application -- to be used offline. Google announced the platform at its ...