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Creating apps for the iPad and iPhone just got easier -- perhaps because Apple needs programmers more than it thought
Challenged by Android's growth, Apple relaxes rules on cross-platform compilers, maybe opens door to Flash on iPhone
Based on HTML5-oriented CouchDB, CouchMobile joins ranks of app dev tools aimed at 'write once, run anywhere'
Non-Apple iOS dev tools are thriving, but Apple's stance against Flash and Java has at least one provider on edge
A wide-ranging flock of Python IDEs offer great options for Windows scripting, GUI applications, Web frameworks, multilanguage development, and more.
Parallel Studio 2011 backs Visual Studio 2010 and adds a component to walk developers through the process of introducing parallelism
The new ActiveState Python distribution includes modules for GUI design and interacting with databases
An increasing tendency toward vendor-specific languages suggests a gradual eroding of developer choice
The 300,000-download figure touted by Microsoft may not mean all that much
Beta 1 of Microsoft's LightSwitch shows promise as an easy-to-use development tool, but it doesn't seem to know its audience