Section - Application Development

AI fluency doesn’t necessarily equate to data competence

by Kathy Gibson | September 22, 2026 | Application Development Trends | 0 Comments

Artificial intelligence (AI) is giving data professionals faster ways to write code, generate queries, prepare documentation, and work through technical problems. For junior talent in particular, that creates opportunities to learn and contribute more quickly....

The business case doesn’t end at go-live

by Kathy Gibson | September 10, 2026 | Application Development Trends | 0 Comments

A migration, modernisation programme or new application may be delivered on time and still fail to produce its expected return. The difference is usually made in the months and years after launch, writes Byron Phillips, head of managed operations at Synthesis. Go-live...

Beware of the AI trap in development

by Kathy Gibson | August 27, 2026 | Application Development | 0 Comments

AI is transforming every aspect of the software development lifecycle, but because the technology delivers such professional-looking outputs, organisations risk falling into an ‘AI trap’ and overlooking key factors in development. This is according to David Noakes,...

Meta launches Muse Code coding agent

by Allan Davison | August 12, 2026 | Application Development, Technology Areas | 0 Comments

Meta has released Muse Code (beta), a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2. Muse Code takes on complex software engineering tasks across large repositories: planning changes, writing code, and validating the results. It can coordinate multiple persistent...

Ericsson unveils WebRTC platform

by Allan Davison | Jan 11, 2013 | Application Development, Technology Areas | 0 Comments

Ericsson has unveiled a new Web development platform that will allow any connected device to be turned into an always-open communications device. The world’s first IMS-based “Web Realtime Communications” (WebRTC) platform enables Web applications that will greatly...