If you're an Android developer looking to get started creating apps for Windows 8, look no further than this resource center made just for you. You'll get tools on how to build Windows Store apps using a variety of programming languages, including blog posts, coding road maps, and much more. 

Read this white paper to learn the advantages of column-based databases, and see if it's right for your organization. Some of the key findings include how column-based databases perform faster and require less maintenance, while also performing better with analytic applications. 

The upsurge in cloud computing presents development teams with challenges that may require them to rethink established ways of building applications. Read this SearchSOA.com E-Book to get an overview of issues and strategies surrounding application development in the cloud. 

Read this article to learn how to alert a BlackBerry smartphone user from a Background application. 

This Webcast explores the key elements necessary for improved SOA messaging. In this Webcast, you will examine the messaging benefits associated with JMS, HTTP, REST, SOAP, WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, traditional message queues and intermediaries. You will how to leverage various messaging constructs during the services design process. 

This paper outlines how to develop and deploy a server side architecture to enable the mobile application economy via REST APIs with JSON, contrasts native vs. web-based client architectures, and the resulting impacts on security, protocol mediation and data control. 

UML and SDL are the design languages for third generation systems. This whitepaper discusses using an integrated UML and SDL approach, and using a design example that utilizes Telelogic solutions for Model Driven Development (MDD). 

This paper presents a new, broad and all-encompassing multiplatform view of modernization in the context of applications, people and teams that will help you see where to begin, and where a comprehensive strategy might lead. 

In this 3rd part of the <i>Designing Artificial Intelligence for Games</i> series, you'll learn how to give your agents higher orders of intelligence. The agents can already deal with the immediate situation they find themselves in; now you are working toward artificial intelligence (AI) that deals with broader goals and the bigger picture. 

In this SearchOracle.com expert e-guide, read a Q&A that dives into the topics covered at the annual summit held this January by the business intelligence (BI) special interest group within the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), including  advanced Oracle analytics, connectors to Hadoop, the R statistical programming language, and big data. 

Read this white paper to learn best practices for utilizing application programming interfaces (APIs) in your organization. Review essential usage patterns key architectural requirements that can help you ensure success. 

Visit this exclusive resource center to find valuable tools for your Windows 8 mobile development initiative, including an "App Builder Virtual Summit" that provides expert seminars on everything from game development to app monetization through advertisements to making the move from iOS and Android. 

In this webinar, Intel experts describe the 2-tier mobile optimized server architecture + HTML5 cross-platform SDK that dramatically speeds mobile app development, simplifies application of mobile-friendly security, and quickly packages legacy services for mobile developer community innovation.