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Developers Are Working on Television Apps, but TV Industry Is Wary

TV Apps

The technology industry is working on viewing options that could include apps, a move that could transform cable television’s interface and business model.

 

After 25 Million Downloads, Joomla Aims to Expand Into Apps

What was born just before YouTube and Twitter, powers whole websites with open source code and has now been downloaded 25 million times? Joomla! The popular Content Management System with an exclamation point in its name passed a major milestone this month and now says its future will be based on helping developers build all kinds of other apps.

Senh: I only wish Drupal would head in that direction too. This should be interesting. Looks like I'll have to familiarize myself with Joomla! and keep an eye on this. It makes complete sense though. There isn't a cms for apps development. You would have to learn different api's to create apps for Android, iOS, Facebook, or Twitter. If I could use Joomla! to create apps that would work with all of those platforms, it would be awesome.

 

App Makers and Twitter Feel Strains

A boom in apps has fed longstanding tensions between Twitter and the developers over whether they are partners or competitors.

 

NoSQL is Catching On in the Enterprise

NoSQL is Catching On in the Enterprise

An Evans Data survey of 1,200 developers, 400 of which are enterprise developers, found that 56% of enterprise developers already use schemaless databases and 63% plan to use one in the next two years. Adoption is particularly strong in the APAC countries.

Among the general developer community, only 43% of respondents plan to use NoSQL in the next two years.

 

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