Microsoft and others embrace virtualization, but support varies.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/01/2008
Microsoft PDC is back on the schedule.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 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
Microsoft is facing its first crisis with Windows Home Server, which is causing file corruption when used with certain programs -- most of them from Microsoft itself.
Patch Tuesday releases promise be a lot more interesting in 2008.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/28/2007
Firefox 3 Beta 2 hits in time for the holidays; Microsoft queues up IE 8 beta for first half '08.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/27/2007
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.
Like a kid who's overdosed on Christmas cookies, Microsoft looks like it's going to have a hyper 2008.
Matthew Szulik stunned analysts by announcing that he's stepping back from Red Hat CEO slot. Jim Whitehurst will step in as president and CEO while Szulik will remain chairman.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/21/2007
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.
Just when you thought life couldn't get any riskier for Web app developers, a new species of malicious code is poised to begin oozing onto our networks. Dubbed "Trojans 2.0" by Web security vendor Finjan, this new Web-borne threat leverages Web 2.0 technology -- RSS feeds, social networks, blogs and mashups -- to provide crackers with easy and scalable command-and-control schemes.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/20/2007
Adobe Systems is planning to release the source code for the remoting and messaging technologies within its LiveCycle Data Services suite as a separately branded product called BlazeDS. A beta of the product is available now on the Adobe Labs developer portal.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/20/2007
Sanbolic bolsters Microsoft's virtualization game plan with Melio clustered file system and LaScala Volume Manager.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/20/2007
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).
With hundreds of millions of lines of code contained in Web browser applications, even the most informed and seasoned developers are bound to overlook a couple of things.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/19/2007
The rise of virtual machines may prove to be somewhat of a nightmare for entrenched purveyors of closed operating systems, but it may become a boon for independent software vendors (ISVs) and end users -- so a recent Yankee Group report suggests.
Microsoft CRM 4.0 should be hitting the shelves -- virtual or otherwise -- by year’s end.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/18/2007