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.
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
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
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
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
ELC Technologies, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based application developer company, has partnered with FiveRuns Corp. to support enterprise-grade Ruby on Rails (RoR) applications. The partnership will help enable ELC's enterprise customers to actively monitor the performance of their RoR applications.