Application Management

Fresh off the heels of the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update, Microsoft is back at it with yesterday's release of the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 package. Visual Studio 2012 itself was only launched in September so it turns out they weren't kidding when they began their initiative to release development tool updates much more frequently.

Setting limits on your Linux systems can both protect against certain types of failure and ensure that critical processes keep running when systems are heavily used. Take a look at the ulimit command and see what kind of shackles are limiting you – or maybe setting you free.

JavaScript, it's no longer the avoidable nuisance it once was. The flexibility of of the language and its ubiquity on the client side have brought it front and center for modern web developers. The creation of popular JavaScript frameworks, such as jQuery, MooTools, YUI, Dojo, GWT to name a few, have eased much of the pain when it comes to coding, but most of the shortcomings of the language are still inherent.

As JavaOne 2012 gets started this week, Red Hat is using the occasion to announce some shake ups for its venerable Java-based JBoss product line.

There will be quite a few challenges in Google's way, but a bet on enterprise Android deployments could pay off.

Gartner predicts the amount of consumer data stored in the cloud will increase 1,080 percent by 2016, potentially smothering the cloud, the Internet and every advance in storage and bandwidth between now and then in a flood of useless, redundant pictures of cats.

On the fifth anniversary of its Safe Browsing initiative, Google has opened up about some of the risks it sees trending and what it's been doing about them. Mainly it warns users, many of whom ignore warnings about legitimate sites that have been compromised by malware.

Fujitsu has announced a team it was leading was able to break the 923-bit "pair based encryption" during an experiment it used to establish the credibility in business products of a crypto standard mainly the province of academics.

Mapping just one minute of global communications among botnets makes it look as if we've been invaded from outer space, not just infected with malware.

The latest security concern keeping multinational corporations away from cloud computing is that increasingly strict European laws tying data on a customer to his or her country of origin undermine cloud technology that make things like geography and operating system irrelevant.

Security researcher Thomas Ptacek didn't slam LinkedIn for not salting the hashes it used to protect passwords. He slammed it for using the wrong kind of encryption, and for not knowing the difference.