Development

Windows developers are receiving an ever-greater number of requests for mobile apps. However, they are struggling to meet that mobile demand with current tools and skills, while also meeting expectations to support and enhance of existing desktop applications.

Large JavaScript Web apps can be hard to develop and slow to run. Google's Dart language may offer a solution to address both of those issues.

Five out of 10 outsourcing buyers will up their bets on applications outsourcing, according to a joint survey from KPMG and HfS Research, but they continue to be disappointed by providers' analytical capabilities and innovation.

As application development increasingly hooks into outside services, tools to manage all those APIs are sprouting up.

The schism between Python 2.x and 3.x and other deficiencies frustrate its enthusiastic developer community.

Some companies are going whole-hog with mobile apps, including for some core line-of-business functions.

Back-end as a service offers standard features to drop into your apps, so your developers can spend their time on the most strategic pieces.

The JavaScript founder details where developers can go wrong and the straightforward methods to stay on track.

Teenagers rack up hour after hour on "World of Warcraft," as their parents grow crops on "Farmville." At first glance, all this game playing may not seem relevant to the enterprise, but the mechanisms that guide and score online game playing can be used for much more than the keeping tabs on virtual farms.

Dynamic languages, most notably Python, are establishing themselves in the enterprise like never before. CIOs should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of Python carefully--and consider that their developers are probably using it already.