IBMWebSphere Portal to be sold with Mainsoft's .NET-Java interoperability solution.
Blend SP1 runs into some rough patches.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/01/2008
Early build of 'Volta' toolset expected to ease multi-tier app development.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/01/2008
Sybase PowerBuilder 11.1 adds .NET enhancements.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/01/2008
Internet Explorer has been a source of chagrin to many Web developers over the years due to less-than-perfect W3C standards support. This problem was pervasive with Internet Explorer 6, considering how badly the aging 2001-era browser renders modern CSS-driven layouts.
The inaugural Google Web Toolkit (GWT) conference in San Francisco featured a conversation with Joshua Bloch, Google's chief Java architect. He was interviewed by Greg Doench, an executive editor with Pearson Technology Group, which includes book publishers such as Addison-Wesley Professional, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, Sams and Peachpit Press.
The Creative Commons foundation recently released the CC+ protocol, which allows authors and other content makers to release their work for free (under the Creative Commons noncommercial license) and charge a fee for commercial use at the same time.
WaveMaker Software unveiled two new developer solutions this week: WaveMaker Visual Assembly Studio and WaveMaker Rapid Deployment Framework for Enterprise Web 2.0. The former is designed to provide enterprise departmental developers with a visual dev tool for building data-driven Web apps. The latter enables those apps to be deployed to industry-standard Java app servers.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/20/2007
Open source community projects and commercial software aren't necessarily adversaries. Some interactions have resulted in a positive outcome for all. One such instance is the KDE project's collaboration with Oslo, Norway-based Trolltech. Since 1996, Trolltech's QT toolkit has been used in the KDE Desktop Environment. The collaboration resulted in user-friendly desktops for Unix and Unix-like operating systems (such as Linux).
Search Server 2008 Express takes on Google’s Mini Search Appliance.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/15/2007
IdentityMine provides UI components to simplify coding in WPF.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/15/2007
OpenSolaris and Windows can cooperate thanks to released CIFS code
- By John K. Waters
- 12/15/2007
OpenID system is top contender in online ID-management frameworks.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/15/2007
Dynamics CRM 4.0 could score big for Microsoft in the midmarket space.
- By Richard Adhikari
- 12/15/2007
Scott Guthrie shares his views on the new Web and client development tools in Visual Studio 2008.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/15/2007
ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions brings Ruby on Rails’ functionality to ASP.NET.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/15/2007
Those who were denied the opportunity to get the Release Candidate (RC) for the first service pack for Windows Vista last week now have their opportunity, as it's now available for public download.
Dan shows you how to use Silverlight's brushes to create custom images.
One of the best benefits of Team System 2008 are the Team Build improvements -- including wizards, new test and scheduling options, and much more. Find out what they can do for you.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 12/11/2007
A year after its initial release, Microsoft today announced it is shipping the first service pack for Office 2007.
- By James E. Powell
- 12/11/2007