Software-Programming

While technology vendors continue to pound home the message of cloud computing, PHP developers Tuesday viewed the concept as overhyped and were not in agreement on its benefits.

Developers at the ZendCon 2010 PHP conference in Santa, Clara, Calif. heard Zend Technologies CEO Andi Gutmans tout the company's cloud computing plans, which involve developing Zend PHP Cloud Platform. During his presentation, however, developers appeared mostly underwhelmed when Gutmans asked if cloud computing was game-changing or just hype. Afterward, developers gave cloud computing mixed reviews.

It has been nearly 10 years since programming dignitaries released "The Manifesto for Agile Software Development," which promoted processes that accommodate changing requirements, collaboration with customers, and delivery of software in short iterations.

The agile manifesto was forged in February 2001 when a group of developers convened in Utah to find an alternative to documentation-driven, "heavyweight" software development practices, such as the then-gold-standard waterfall method.

A new version of the redsn0w jailbreak utility from the iPhone Dev Team is available for download packing a bunch of new features, including custom bootlogos for iPhone and iPod touch, the ability to enter DFU mode and restore to a custom jailbreak made on a Mac, and more.

The infamous team of hackers acknowledges in a recent blog post that “geohot’s recent limera1n exploit for iPhone3GS/iPhone4/iPad/ipt3g/ipt4g/atv2g will be very beneficial to jailbreakers and unlockers for the next few months (at least).”

THE MOZILLA FOUNDATION has fixed a hole in its Internet browser Firefox and email client Thunderbird in record time. Less than 48 hours after receiving a report of a critical flaw in Firefox, Mozilla issued an emergency update that patched it.

Mozilla released Firefox 3.6.12 and Firefox 3.5.15 to patch the vulnerability, which had been exploited by malware planted on the Nobel Peace Prize website. The vulnerability existed in the Windows, Mac OS X and Linux versions of Firefox 3.6 and the older Firefox 3.5. It does not cause problems for those using the Firefox 4 beta.

A little while ago there was a whisper doing the rounds on the net that the hackers over at XDA-Developers were thinking of launching an iPhone developer’s dedicated site, and it appears that the rumour has now turned into fact.

According to an article over on Pocket Now by Brandon Miniman, the XDA-developers have now officially gone live with iPhone-developers.com, which means we may just get a peek at what XDA is thinking of doing with the Apple iOS platform.

Marketers are under constant pressure to do their part to keep the sales funnel full with qualified leads, grow the business and improve ROMI. For sellers and marketers of software, that typically involves selling licenses and renewing maintenance agreements. But are all applications actually in use being captured as revenue? Enter the constant uphill battle against software piracy. In this three-part series, we will explore what the problem of software piracy means to marketers, what can be done about it and how it can be turned into revenue.

Firesheep, an amateur hacking tool, has been downloaded more than 104,000 times a mere 24 hours after its launch, according to TechCrunch.

In the world of enterprise programming, the mainstream is broad and deep. Code is written predominantly in one of a few major languages. For some shops, this means Java; for others, it's C# or PHP. Sometimes, enterprise coders will dabble in C++ or another common language used for high-performance tasks such as game programming, all of which turn around and speak SQL to the database.

It has now been more than a week since Oracle released a monster security fix for Java, or 29 security fixes within a Critical Patch Update across Java SE and Java for Business products to be precise. Which leads me to the question posed in the title of this missive, the answer to which is almost certainly "me" or rather you as I am one of the paltry 7% which has already applied the fix. At the risk of repeating myself, I shall repeat myself. Only 7% have applied the critical patch.

As a lover of Facebook but a supporter of privacy, developer Brian Kennish has devised a Facebook application claiming to block information to and from third-party advertisers.

Kennish, a developer at Google, decided to develop a program to counter Facebook Connect’s ability to follow users as they browse registered sites on the web. It also suppresses the “Connect via Facebook” sidebar.