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Security

Gamification can transform your software security program

Tuesday, December 18, 2018
By Pieter Danhieux

With security often seen as an obstacle in the path of innovation, adhering to project delivery deadlines and staying agile, it can be something of a dirty word in the software industry. However, the cost of a data breach is too great to ignore. Fort...

Open Source

Open source, Kubernetes, and developers, according to Abby Kearns

Monday, December 17, 2018
By Richard Harris

As Executive Director of Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby Kearns helms the ecosystem of developers, users, and applications running on Cloud Foundry, and works to drive the Foundation’s vision and grow the open source project. We sat down with Abby to ...

Marketing & Promotion

Best gifts for programmers, developers, and nerds 2018

Friday, December 14, 2018
By Richard Harris

The best gift ideas for programmers, app developers, designers, and nerds in your circles that are hard to buy for. These suggestions are written by a group of app developers that know what we want!...

Android

Java vs. Kotlin: The raging debate

Thursday, December 13, 2018
By Ashish Parmar

Deciding if you should use Java vs. Kotlin for Android development is a debate that is still fresh with pros and cons on either side. But despite the argument, Kotlin marches on with a strong developer force behind it, replacing regular Java as it st...

Enterprise

Software architecture in 2019

Wednesday, December 12, 2018
By Richard Harris

In a recent conversation with Neal Ford, we talk about the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference happening in 2019, and why developers often find themselves as accidental architects, making decisions that span the lifetime of a software project, ...

Artificial Intelligence

Good AI starts with good data

Monday, December 10, 2018
By Heather Ames Versace

Creating powerful AI solutions requires that developers must use the right kind of data in order to train the algorithm effectively....

Security

Join us for a free mobile app security threats webinar on Tuesday

Friday, December 7, 2018
By Richard Harris

App Developer Magazine hosts a free webinar on mobile app security with expert Samual Bakken from OneSpan to help developers protect their apps from malware attacks, reverse-engineering, and more....

Marketing & Promotion

Key insights into app performance and competition from Adjust

Wednesday, December 5, 2018
By Richard Harris

Find out how your mobile marketing measures up by using the new Global Benchmarks 2.0 tool from Adjust. Gain insight into how much it typically costs to acquire a user, average CTRs, cost per clicks, and more....

IoT

How Pycom wants to help IoT developers

Tuesday, December 4, 2018
By Richard Harris

Fred de Haro from Pycom talks about the evolution of IoT development and how his company is helping developers bring their products to the market faster....

Monetize

Get more app advertising revenue with header bidding advertisements

Monday, December 3, 2018
By Saurabh Bhatia

76 percent of all mobile app revenue comes from advertisements, but why are developers still using antiquated technology to monetize mobile applications? Switching to mobile ad platforms with header bidding has major advantages because it's based on ...

iOS

iOS project management tips

Sunday, December 2, 2018
By Richard Harris

The key elements of a team management solution and how a few different team management strategies compare when they are put to the test....

Artificial Intelligence

AIOps and why IT should care

Thursday, November 29, 2018
By Bhanu Singh

IT becomes more complicated every day because Big Data is consuming recourses that we never thought possible in this, mobile-first world - where every bit of information is stored. AIOps is an emerging technology that combines the usage of artificial...

iOS

5 app development tips to help you avoid disaster

Wednesday, November 28, 2018
By Joe Hanson

Use these tips before you start your next app development project to help you avoid problems that can wreck an otherwise perfect app launch....

Security

AI for cybersecurity

Tuesday, November 27, 2018
By Richard Harris

How artificial intelligence can be used to automatically defend against data breaches and server attacks. Ivan Novikov, CEO of AI-powered cybersecurity company, Wallarm, talks about AI is helping security experts identify and eliminate cybersecurity ...

Open Source

Why Citus Data is donating 1 percent equity to PostgreSQL foundations

Monday, November 26, 2018
By Richard Harris

CEO of Citus Data says that they will be giving 1 percent of their companies equity to PostgreSQL foundations to further the cause of the popular open source relational database....

Cloud Services

Finding the perfect server size for your cloud deployment

Saturday, November 24, 2018
By Bill Supernor

Cloud server sizing can be a difficult thing to navigate, Bill Supernor gives his professional opinion to developers by going through the data....

DevOps

Speeding up SaaS deployments with Platform.sh

Friday, November 23, 2018
By Richard Harris

Chris Yates, VP of marketing, talks with us about how Platform.sh launched its white-label platform in order to speed up entrepreneurs SaaS development....

Apps

The best Thanksgiving 2018 game that makes you look busy

Thursday, November 22, 2018
By Christian Hargrave

The best Thanksgiving 2018 app - or game if you want to call it that, named Turkey Plucker is oddly addictive, and causes uncontrolled outbursts. ...

Business of Apps

Twitter and KaiOS take on KaiOS-powered smart feature phones

Wednesday, November 21, 2018
By Joyce Shen

Twitter and KaiOS want to bring Twitter to KaiOS-powered smart feature phones and open up possibilities across the world....

Game Development

Retro gaming talk with Matthew Thomas of Storytellers Entertainment

Tuesday, November 20, 2018
By Richard Harris

A retro game development company led by Matthew Thomas is releasing Imperium Omni, their newest RPG game designed for the PC. We talk with them to get the grit on the release and what the future holds....

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Featured Stories

Instant playable ads coming to Google Play Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Google Flutter comes out of Beta to help speed up native development Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Industrial IoT platform gets updates from Pulse Secure Monday, December 17, 2018

Kubernetes as a Service lands from DigitalOcean Monday, December 17, 2018

Kublr updates to 1.11 Monday, December 17, 2018

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