They may not be sexy, but package managers are an integral part of every developer's work -- using the right ones can make you more productive. Read on to find out what -- and where -- they are.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 03/28/2014
SignalR provides real-time communications between servers and clients.
The technology was developed by a company founded by two ex-Microsoft executives.
A new Android SDK for Office 365 is also revealed.
Microsoft dropped offering its own version of Hadoop for on-premises deployments.
China, meanwhile, continues to develop its own China Operating System (COS).
Many developers would not put code in the repository, due to the lack of a GPLv3 license option.
Rackspace Cloud SDK for Microsoft .NET is a tool suite for .NET developers working with the OpenStack cloud OS.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 05/16/2013
The Open Technologies Group has open sourced ASP.NET, MVC 4, and the Entity Framework, among other technologies.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/01/2013
Microsoft releases Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 alpha.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 03/22/2013
Google has a set of libraries that allow older versions of Android to get support for newer APIs. Mono for Android provides full support.
- By Wallace McClure
- 01/08/2013
Learn how to use the Fragments API in Mono for Android to create an application UI for multiple screens, such as a handset and tablet.
- By Wallace McClure
- 12/13/2012
Developers use Codename One to create all components from scratch, instead of using native widgets, to avoid fragmentation.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/12/2012
Office 2013 will provide full support for both variants of Open XML.
The company has added an Azure Authentication Library for .NET to the Developer Preview of its cloud-based identity management service.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/06/2012