A new piece of software has slithered onto the marketplace, allowing anyone to create their own apps for any of the major platforms including iPads and iPhones, Android and Android Honeycomb, all without requiring any programming skills.

  A battle between universities has erupted, with a robot from Swinburne University failing to beat the world record Rubik's cube time set by RMIT students.

iPhone or iPad-toting users worldwide can now tap into their virtual Microsoft Azure cloud environments anywhere with the release of an open source toolkit for developers.

A new commercial app development course is being touted as the first of its kind to be offered in Australia by an Apple Authorised Training Centre. \

The compatibility problems between iTunes 10 and existing Automator actions and AppleScripts for iTunes may be symptomatic of a deeper issue at Apple.

Whether an enterprise application is custom-built or purchased off-the-shelf, you can always delve under the hood into the database layer to add your own specific functionality, like alerting and auditing when data is modified.

SANS and MITRE have launched the 2010 edition of the 25 most dangerous error programmers can make (and they do, regularly!)

Last Friday the popular Australian recruitment web site SEEK hosted a position vacant for a software developer that, among more technical requirements, should ideally have DD cup breasts and a slim waist.

What does Microsoft's community open source software repository CodePlex have in common with massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs)? Answer: they both have an enormous surge of activity, traffic and popularity the day a new World of Warcraft (WoW) patch hits the Internet.

Jeff Atwood, one of the two founders behind the popular StackOverflow question-and-answer site, has suffered a complete loss of his entire blog archive including both his personal Coding Horror blog and the StackOverflow blog site. Given Atwood has admonished people in the past for not following his advice on backup regimes what went wrong?