There’s an unhealthy obsession with companies looking for a way to measure developer productivity. Over the last 20 years, I’ve led multidisciplinary technology teams across some of Australia’s ...

When former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave his infamous "developers, developers, developers" chant in 2000, he may have been a little overenthusiastic, but the sentiment was right. It was true 30 ...

The demand for highly skilled software developers continues to grow. IDC, a leading market intelligence firm, predicts a shortfall of four million developers by 2025 (paywall), while the U.S. Bureau ...

Developers are enjoying a renaissance. "There is a swagger," says Dan Kador, CTO and developer at startup Keen.IO, a TechStars Cloud company he co-founded with three two other developers. "It has been ...

Editor’s note: Guest contributor James Yu is cofounder of Parse, a cloud platform for mobile developers. You can follow him on Twitter and read his blog. Over the years, software development has ...

Windows Phone 7 is entering a tough market. Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android have become well-entrenched, widely used platforms, and both have application stores boasting tens or hundreds of thousands ...

Tech giant Apple (AAPL 1.82%) doesn't need Steve Ballmer to tell it that developers matter. Although other more tangible areas of Apple's business, like quarterly shipments or carrier subsidies, are ...