2015: The year of HTML5

FOLLOW SD TIMES DECEMBER 29, 2014 IN THE NEWS Analyst Watch: 2015 will be a pivotal year for HTML5 Five questions with new Dynatrace CEO John Van Siclen on APM and company’s future LINKAPALOOZA ZEICHICK'S TAKE Big Security, Big Cloud and the Big Goodbye FROM THE WEB IN THE NEWS Analyst Watch: 2015 will be a pivotal year for HTML5 By Al Hilwa In October 2014, some 25 years after Tim Berners-Lee first sketched the outline of what would become the World Wide Web in 1989, the W3C HTML Working Group voted to pass the final “Recommendation” of the Open Web Platform standard known as HTML5. Five releases in 25 years is not a fast pace of evolution by today’s software standards, especially when you consider that the predecessor standard, HTML4 (HTML 4.01), was released in 1999.... READ MORE » PLATINUM SPONSOR New Wearables TechCon Classes Announced – Biggest Show of 2015! Wearables TechCon will be the biggest OEM Wearables event of 2015. Classes are being posted daily! Check them out HERE. Wearables TechCon is like a CES® for OEMs and will feature more than 60 sessions for OEM builders, designers and developers of Wearable computing technology as well as a large exhibit hall where you can investigate the leading edge of Wearable technology firsthand. More than 1,300 people registered for the first event, Wearables DevCon, and we expect more than 2,500 in Santa Clara on March 9-11. Get a jump on the future and register in 2014; the full three-day technical conference (both tracks) is just $945! » Register today and save $450  Five questions with new Dynatrace CEO John Van Siclen on APM and company’s future By Rob Marvin Application performance management solution provider Dynatrace is a private entity once more, becoming an independent business and naming John Van Siclen as its new CEO. After the initial dynaTrace company, which also had Van Siclen as its CEO, was acquired by Compuware in 2011, the company assumed the role of the APM business in the larger IT software company (with Van Siclen acting as a Compuware APM general manager). When investment firm Thoma Bravo announced its acquisition of Compuware back in September, and its plans to take the company private, Compuware renamed the APM business Dynatrace once more.... READ MORE » GOLD SPONSOR The Value of Testing Metrics Within Software Development Developers today face increasing pressure to deliver software on time and under shrinking budgets. This, of course, strains testers, who now must take every opportunity to manage the quality of their product or risk releasing flawed software. Project teams need to keep a high level of accountability and oversight during development, but cannot do that without the ability to accurately monitor testing measures. 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The 5th Big Data TechCon has been announced and it will take place at the Seaport Hotel right in downtown Boston, April 26-28. Register before Jan 16 and save $450! Why not enhance your career skills and increase your future value by becoming a Big Data Expert? More than 40 expert speakers and instructors will teach you how to master Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL, Hive, R, Pig, Mongo DB, Cassandra and other big data technologies and put them to work in your company! As always, the earlier you register the more you save so put that 2014 training budget to good use! » Register by Jan. 16 for just $1,045 ZEICHICK'S TAKE Big Security, Big Cloud and the Big Goodbye Software-defined networks and Network Functions Virtualization will redefine enterprise computing and change the dynamics of the cloud. Data thefts and professional hacks will grow, and development teams will shift their focus from adding new features to hardening against attacks. Those are two of my predictions for 2015.... READ MORE » BRONZE SPONSOR 5 Steps for Tracing Software Requirements to Improve Quality  One of the biggest challenges in product development is ensuring that what you actually deliver matches your most current requirements. Whether developing simple manufactured items, software products or systems, or more complex products with hardware, firmware, and software components, ensuring that your final (and potentially evolving) design matches the finished product requires a well-defined process. When software development is linked to hardware & firmware development, it is especially challenging because of the wide range of requirements and multiple dependencies that are present for relatively simple applications. It is for this reason that a well-designed Requirements Traceability process is critical to delivering a quality product. This white paper lays out five steps to take to ensure your project matches up with requirements from inception, through the development life cycle, through to deployment. » Learn more! FROM THE WEB Mobile in 2014: Going beyond smartphones and tablets A year of change, and risk, at Microsoft The cloud in 2014: An open, interoperable ecosystem The year agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery took over the life cycle The year security was on everyone's mind 2014: Into the breach Snapchat and enterprise software: A match made in heaven Twelve ugly techie sweaters for the holidays Microsoft updates Windows App Studio and TouchDevelop language Sony wants to turn your glasses into smartglasses