APIs are application programming interfaces. They are pieces of software that act as a bridge between one application and another application, piece of hardware or database of information, for example ...

ITworld.com, Ebusiness in the Enterprise – ‘Never work with children or animals’ is a rule of thumb often evinced in the acting profession. Children and animals alike are famous for not doing what ...

You could say reactive programming is like functional programming with superpowers. Let's take a look at this dynamic programming style. Reactive programming is an important facet of modern software ...

Last week's suit and counter suit between Apple and Creative Labs over patents pertaining to the user interfaces that each use for portable media players reminds me of some advice a lawyer gave me a ...

Separating interface from implementation has many practical benefits. Here’s a simple way to do just that, in ANSI-standard C code. How do you organize medium-sized or larger C programs? Few C ...

The economic success of computer programs is directly linked to offering an attractive user interface, eg, an intuitive menu, toolbars, icons, interconnections between functionalities, special effects ...

“A growing shortage of skilled labor requires the further simplification of automation and programming, especially among small and medium-size enterprises where complexity is seen as a major barrier ...

Researchers modelled learning and visual search and predicted how users learn new or partially changed user interfaces. The model shows that even small changes can disturb visual search and impede use ...

Bob Sutor, IBM's VP of open source and standards, recently declared at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas that the open source world needs to create new and innovative user interfaces ...

Everyone has an opinion about user interfaces. The trouble is, most people don’t have enough experience to back those opinions up. Among PC and Mac users worldwide, most use one platform regularly and ...