Mobile World Congress 2015 was the Uniface team’s first appearance at the exhibition which highlights the broadening scope and influence the event offers to the wider software industry and market. Developer productivity underpins the Uniface platform, so CIC’s Bola Rotibi caught up with Uniface’s Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, Adrian Gosbell to see if this concept was high on the list of attendees at the booth.  More importantly, with the imminent launch of Uniface 10 and the new mobile development facilities of the platform, MWC’s 93,000 plus attendees from 200 countries certainly offers an extensive audience reach and market field test bed to showcase the productivity of the development environment. But what insights are there for app development tool providers attending MWC 2015 in general?    

One doesn’t need to look far to see the possibilities and potential from the onslaught of software and communication technologies made available today and going forward. In the hands of good developers and diverse development teams, such technologies can enable all manner of business process accomplishments occur more effectively. They can make possible, greater social collaboration and outreach for the broad spectrum of industry and market sectors. 

You get a sense of the power and influence that developers can help to deliver when one considers the volume and variety of data now available. By utilizing the variety of analytical facilities now available they can deliver application and services that employ the deepest insights, correlations and predictions. All of which can serve to achieve the most effective outcome. 

So given the business demand for IT enabled growth, the onslaught of game-changing technology, devices and social trends, and the general consumerization of IT, is it any wonder that the development remit is now even broader? 

We bandy around the word developer, but what does it really mean to be a developer in today’s climate? - and how is the role evolving to meet the needs of businesses today and for the future?

Clive Howard recently recorded a podcast with Darren Smith from Salesforce.com on the topic of cloud platform development. Salesforce have offered developers a way to build on this platform through Force.com for many years. Through Darren's work with this community he has seen for some time the challenges and benefits that developers have had when building on a cloud platform. With the recent launch of Salesforce1 and the acquisition of Heroku they are now taking this platform to mobile developers and beyond to the Internet of Things.

Clive Howard talks with Moh Haghighat and Joe Wolf from Intel on the topic of web technologies. This topic covers the foundational aspects of web development such as tooling, compilers and the hardware on which today’s application run. Moh is a Senior Principal Engineer and Joe is a Product Manager for Intel’s HTML5 tools.

Intel do extensive work in many of these areas such as improving the speed at which code runs on the devices that we use. They have also invested in HTML5 through their New XDK tooling which supports the development of hybrid mobile apps that run on a number of different platforms including iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

Clive Howard talks to Brian LeRoux, Principal Product Manager at Adobe, about trends that he is seeing from within the developer community. Brian discusses how web development is broader than it has ever been, encompassing the browser, server and devices, and is increasingly organising into processes familiar to traditional software development. 

In this podcast, CIC Research Director, Bola Rotibi, speaks to Arno Gourdol, Adobe’s senior director leading the web platform and authoring team at the company, about the opportunities and challenges in this area. The discussion focused on how organizations and design and development teams can equip themselves to stay current and marketable, against the background of a rapidly changing technological landscape. In particular, as we move into a world that is seeing the “Internet of things”, it becomes paramount that enterprise organizations and generally those in the market of developing Apps either for internal and/or external audiences understand the impact to the design and development processes. All will need to act and be ready to embrace the necessary changes.

No developer sets out to write a crappy app or application, but yet they continue to be deployed...and rather too often in a lot of opinions and based on the evidence available. In this rather risqué titled podcast discussion we address the fact that given all the tooling and technology advances and the design guidance available whether there is now a case for locking up developers for producing bad apps and applications? We aim to identify important considerations for improving the prospects of a good App being delivered.