Entity Framework beta 3 offers new features, bug fixes and major performance enhancements, but no Oracle support.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/01/2008
IBMWebSphere Portal to be sold with Mainsoft's .NET-Java interoperability solution.
MS Research spin-off Zumobi unleashes first beta of mobile software.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/01/2008
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
Apply gradients to graphics, menus and even text.
Search Server 2008 Express takes on Google’s Mini Search Appliance.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/15/2007
OpenID system is top contender in online ID-management frameworks.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/15/2007