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One of the most daring move by the original founders of MySQL, the open-source database program, is the merger between Monty Program and SkySQL. The newly-merged company will operate under the SkySQL name. The company will have the two main co-creators of the original MySQL, Monty Widenius, head of Monty Program AB, and David Axmark of SkySQL. They will pool both Monty Program and SkySQL's

The world's leading software company, Microsoft, has released the second update in one of their most popular product, the Visual Studio 2012. After just four months since the release of the previous update, the company release it's Visual Studio Update 2, as part of the their pledge to ship updates for Visual Studio in "a regular cadence." The VS Update 2 is mainly for bug fixes and performance

By default, Visual Studio doesn’t come with Crystal Reports. Microsoft has now its own reporting tool with an .rdlc extension. In order to use Crystal Reports for Visual Studio, you need to download it from SAP’s website. Crystal Reports is now called "SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio";. You can also download it directly here: http://downloads.businessobjects.com

A recent survey conducted in March by a company named Electric Cloud released their findings on how software engineers, programmers and developers spend most of their time. The company surveyed around 443 software developers and they found out that programmers spend majority of their time not writing code. On general average, programmers just spend under half the hours in their week on "design and

Microsoft announced that their Microsoft developer tools are adding support to decentralized source code version control using Git. The highly-popular Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server are to support Git. The Team Foundation Service will host and support Git repositories. In addition, Visual Studio will also have Git support. In view of this announcement, Microsoft has released a Community

Java is considered as one of the most popular object-oriented computer programming language in the world. Learning the language takes a lot of time and effort but an idea started by Computer scientists at the University of California, aims to teach how to program Java in an easy way. The computers scientists at the UC, San Diego have developed an immersive, first-person player video game designed

The world's brightest and highest-paid software engineers worked in the companies which paid them the most. Technology companies have a good reputation in treating their employees well, especially the software engineers. Companies who want the smartest software engineers have to pay top dollar to both attract and retain them. Software engineers were the backbone of any technology companies. In

Major updates were released by the PostgreSQL Global Development Group to its developers in order to address several vulnerabilities, including a high-risk one that could allow attackers to crash the server, modify configurations variable as superuser or execute arbitrary code if certain conditions are met. The popular open-source database system, PostgreSQL, released the update on Thursday, April

Google announced the opening of Google Code Jam 2013, the challenged which involves professionals and student programmers around the world to solve tough algorithmic puzzles using the programming language and development environment of their choice. Google however, asked participants that the compiler or interpreter is freely available. You can't used paid-for tools. The contest will be

The world's largest search engine company, Google has already teamed up with the fastest-growing online programming site, Code School to produce a training course that covers the developer tools available in Chrome for developing and debugging web apps. The developer tools from Chrome are based on the WebKit inspector which gives developers deeper access into the internals of the browser and their