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10 simple tools for building mobile apps fast . Alpha Anywhere Alpha Anywhere is a database-oriented, rapid app development tool that shines at creating Web and hybrid mobile apps that work offline. It allows developers to build good apps quickly, with surprisingly solid performance and nativelike look and feel. Alpha Anywhere’s SQL database support is especially strong because it allows you to use the native SQL dialects of each database if you wish, or you can go with Alpha’s Portable SQL facility, which will emit the appropriate native SQL for the current database connection. Alpha’s support for offline mobile operation is also quite complete. It reduces the development of data conflict resolution logic to a few clicks. Recently, Alpha added mobile file system access in hybrid mobile apps for large amounts (gigabytes) of data, with compression. This has advantages both for viewing cached media offline, and for creating large numbers of photos, audio files, and video,

Top 45 Big Data Tools for Developers Big Data is everywhere. Even small to medium-sized businesses are seeking ways to gain more visibility into processes, monetize additional streams, and derive more actionable insights from their data. With data traditionally contained in information silos within applications or databases, taking advantage of Big Data was initially a tedious and complex process. But thanks to Big Data tools, Big Data management can now streamlined in a comprehensive dashboard. Sophisticated platforms enable end-to-end data management and business intelligence with solutions for gathering, integrating, analyzing, and even predicting data in ways never before possible. Listed in no particular order of importance, the following Big Data tools for developers offer platforms for rapid deployment of apps, the ability to integrated data collection and analysis from multitudes of sources and applications, and even integrating offline and online data to put actions a