API

Goodbye to three-tier computing?

Software in the original mainframe days was all glommed together. Why not? Who was looking? Sometimes, reluctantly, some structure came about. Even in the early mid-range days, code was built up into classes, objects and components that were often loosely strung together. With standard Java and...

APIs in the news as App.net trawls for dollars

Summer is known for vacation and relaxation, as many TV commercials attest. It also can be a time of unrest and revolution, as U.S. and French history attest. Maybe the season explains the timing of some upheaval in the fledgling field of

Consumerization of IT and SOA integration

An odd phenomenon these days is the consumerization of IT, which WhatIs describes as the “blending of personal and business use of technology devices and applications.”...

On courting discerning API developers

The process of attracting independent developers to public APIs has gained importance as the app store marketplace proves increasingly relevant and lucrative. Unfortunately, many companies trying to woo developers with their APIs are using marketing techniques that have little...

The changing state of APIs

At work today is a new breed of API. It relies on SOA, but has a new twist. The open or Web API movement has a capacity to dramatically change the status quo, altering the relationships of business leaders and developers, organizations and consumers. In a recent interview with...

APIs for cars at EclipseCon 2012

Can automobiles ride mobile and open source application development trends and become more programmable?  Can the car become an app market place for innovation and software development? It may be possible, to hear T.J. Giuli tell of it. Giuli, a technical expert at Ford Motor Company’s...

Cloud computing, virtual image sprawl and labor costs

COMMENTARY - The virtual machine image, a powerful driver of cloud computing, may be described as a tiger few can easily ride. The VMs are proliferating....

Node.js: Bubbling up from JavaScript

Jack Vaughan, Site Editor

Bubbling under the mainstream of computing these days is the fast growing phenomenon of Node.js – a framework built on Google’s Chrome JavaScript...