Software Development

Microsoft’s open source .Net Foundation eats Cake

Cake allows .Net developers to write build scripts in C# and run them on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X

Apple: Want apps? Then subscribe

Company risks inflicting 'subscription fatigue' on customers

5 questions for Apple to answer at WWDC

The Apple Watch, Cortana and HomeKit could all use updates

XML is toast, long live JSON

XML was useful in its time, but it has been supplanted by faster, more flexible formats.

New Mozilla fund will pay for security audits of open-source code

The project will have a $500,000 fund to start with

Mea culpa: Docker’s security tool and Black Duck’s Security Checker are NOT the same

Raspberry Pi news roundup: Some burgers to go with that Pi?

You’d think that people would be squashing up against the limits of what you can do with a Raspberry Pi by now, but you’d be wrong.

Microsoft boosts support for Spark-based big data analytics

Microsoft's not-invented-here attitude is gone, and in its place an embrace of open source projects

Salesforce targets ‘citizen developers’ with new tools and training

An incubator program will give entrepreneurs physical space within Salesforce's offices

VMware: We love OpenStack!

VMware and OpenStack have made nice