Stories by Paul Krill

Why developers are turning to API services

As application development increasingly hooks into outside services, tools to manage all those APIs are sprouting up

In Pictures: 7 hot iPad apps for business

From Web conferencing to to-do lists, a growing legion of business apps built for the mobile workforce are finding favor with iPad devotees

Java 8 release delayed until next year

The new version of standard Java was due this September, but the need for more work on security issues and Project Lambda have pushed the release date back to the first quarter of 2014

Objective-C's dip in popularity tied to decline in iPad and iPhone

The language used for Apple iOS app development drops a notch in Tiobe index

Old Java can learn new tricks from C, Android

Experts say the language should crib app isolation, locality, and automated parallelism from more modern sources

Software engineers spend lots of time not building software

Administrative tasks, brainstorming, and waiting for tests combine to overtake the hours spent designing and coding

Open source plug-in speeds mobile app development

Soasta, Cloudbees partner to connect mobile app dev to Jenkins continuous integration server, making it easier for developers to test and deploy apps to the cloud

IDC: Web and native device app platforms will coexist in 2013

The analyst firm is also optimistic about the adoption of cloud IDEs and heterogeneous parallel processing

The dark side of the beloved Python

The schism between Python 2.x and 3.x and other deficiencies frustrate its enthusiastic developer community

JavaScript's popularity rankings vary widely

Indexes of programming languages say one thing, but GitHub's rankings tells a different story about JavaScript's popularity

The rise of Cloud-based IDEs

Development tools in the cloud enable programming from anywhere, but they're not suited for all app dev needs

In Pictures: 15 high-impact Apache projects

From Harmony to Hadoop, Apache has been a powerful contributor to the open source ecosystem

What's wrong with agile development: Culture, people top the list

Agile development projects are succeeding, but when they fail, it's often due to staffing and teamwork issues

New Groundwork Web dev framework shows promise

The open source project enables development of applications scaling from handheld devices to large-format televisions

Apple iOS development extended to Visual Studio

With Xamarin version 2.0, Visual Studio developers can build C# apps to run on Apple devices