January 02 2009

eWeek’s Top 10 Application Development Stories of 2008

We really enjoyed eWeek’s Daryl Taft’s top 10 application development stories of 2008, particularly item 3:

3. Mobile app development gets huge

Android, Windows Mobile, iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian, name your platform. Mobile app development is where the action is. The next step is making it easier to build apps that run on more than one platform.

Also, 4. Dynamic Languages Take Off (go Ruby!), and, with Rhomobile’s forthcoming hosted services for mobile app development: 8. Planting the Seeds of Development as a Service.