Appcelerator Inc. earlier this month released a public preview of Titanium SDK, an open source alternative to Adobe AIR.
CA's latest release of its Plex rapid application development environment now lets developers model and generate Microsoft .NET-based services based on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
- By John K. Waters
- 12/17/2008
Microsoft released documentation on Tuesday designed to help developers create applications compatible with Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2, particularly if they need to understand how Office 2007 implements the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard.
Microsoft won't say exactly when it will ship the Release Candidate of its Internet Explorer 8 browser but it's "just around the corner," according to a senior company official.
Google is exploring a way to run code fast and natively in a Web browser without worrying about security issues.
- By Jim Barthold
- 12/11/2008
Web developers have traditionally kept multiple browsers on their computers to facilitate testing, but a fairly new Japanese-made experimental browser called Lunascape rolls the three most important engines into one.
Facing criticism that the beta of its Web Platform Installer didn't support Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Microsoft addressed that complaint with the release candidate made available yesterday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/25/2008
ISO/IEC on Tuesday published the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format standard, formally known as ISO/IEC 29500:2008.
Agile project management tools provider VersionOne has updated its V1: Agile Enterprise product to include a Java software development kit (Java SDK).
- By John K. Waters
- 11/10/2008
Details are being released in bits and pieces, instead of Microsoft's usual all-or-nothing approach.
- By Patrick Meader
- 11/01/2008
A startup company called MagCloud.com is currently using Windows Azure, the new Microsoft "cloud operating system" supporting software as a service applications and storage.
Microsoft released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) on Monday, and developers may be pleased with the new parallel computing capabilities now available in the CTP.
A new cloud-based lab service for developers will be demonstrated by Seattle-based Skytap Inc. at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles next week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/24/2008
Web App Installer centralized management of ASP.NET and PHP-based open source Web apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/16/2008
Some key products won't get attention at the Professional Developers Conference. Here's a guide to what will remain under wraps at Microsoft's biggest developer showcase in years.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 10/15/2008
The National Security Agency has released a case study showing how to cost-effectively develop code with zero defects. If adopted widely, the practices advocated in the case study could help make commercial software programs more reliable and less vulnerable to attack.
- By Joab Jackson
- 10/10/2008
Component maker Intersoft Solutions releases WebUI Studio.NET 2008 R2, an ASP.NET- and Silverlight-based Web development suite
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2008
Microsoft's Secure Development Lifecycle initiative introduces a set of dev requirements aimed at reducing security defects in software.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/01/2008
Developers can get prepared for the next version of Microsoft's rich Internet application platform by grabbing Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 developer runtime edition, which became publicly available on Thursday of last week.
Microsoft is crossing the aisles to see the security process through from start to finish -- not just internally, but for outside software developers too.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/18/2008