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Andrew Vos has mined Github comits to determine amount of profanity in GitHub commit messages per programming language. He analyzed 929,857 commit messages and found 210 instances of any

Appcelerator & IDC's new mobile developer survey is out now, with details on a wide range of development trends including platform choice, developers' future plans and mobile industry challenges. Notably,

Forrester has released its Wave report on platform-as-a-service providers for 2011. It looks at how these providers serve two different types of user: professional developers and business developers. By

Just over a year ago, we were excited to report on a new website for programmers. StackOverflow was the brainchild of coders/rockstars Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, and it was

Apple recently took actions to dissuade developers from participating in incentivized install programs, meaning programs that encouraged consumers to download new apps in return for virtual goods and other bonuses

Apple today opened iCloud.com beta to members of the iOS and Mac developer programs. 9to5Mac was the first to report the opening, and also noticed that Apple may be

Following weeks of requests from open-source developers, HTC has released the Hero Android source code on their developer site. In response to the mobile devs, HTC has previously stated it

This week, a survey of Android developers conducted by Baird's William Powers was highlighted by CNN's Fortune blog in a post titled "Android is a Mess, Say Developers." The results showed

Are any application developers making money on Facebook? Not really, but they could be. According to Bruce Richardson of AMR Research, less than 2% of Facebook developers make any "real"

Mobile content monetization platform TapJoy announced today that it is partnering with some of the top iOS and Android application developers to help bring ad-funded payment options to more than