Developer Tech

A frankly excellent 2012 for San Francisco’s big data intelligence darling Splunk is ending the year with the launch of two new SDKs for Java and Python.

Infragistics' Jason Beres provides more top-class UI developer insight. At the end of this article, you will understand what MVVM is, why it is useful, and how open source JavaScript frameworks like Knockout can help deliver MVVM applications.

According to Tom Barker, not using test-driven development for JavaScript leads to higher error rate and code fragility. So are you on board?

UK-based startup Application Craft has launched its cloud-based development platform, designed to create simple, yet powerful development tools for devs of all skill levels.

A report from IT analysts Gartner has revealed the global app development market will overtake £5.7 billion ($9bn) by the end of 2012.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Beanstalk can now run Python apps, an Amazon blog post has confirmed.

Meteor, described as ‘Silicon Valley’s newest star’, has raised $11.2 million (£7.13m) to try and push open source further into the software development sphere.

The UK is on the lookout for software developers, and the government is helping by setting up a competition as part of the latest Cyber Security Challenge.