Is Microsoft helping HTML5 and the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) stack harm its own products and market position? Historically, Microsoft has struck a delicate balance in melding homegrown and external technologies into a cohesive stack and a winning strategy.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 11/01/2010
Microsoft and the jQuery team's announcements about the new data-driven plugins for jQuery have Peter all excited. He describes the plugins and what he's going to be doing with them in upcoming columns.
WebMatrix Beta 2 is integrated with NuPack, a new open-source package manager Microsoft announced today. The company also released the ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta, which supports the Razor view-engine.
The Microsoft Internet Explorer team on Wednesday described some of the decisions being made to accommodate the ECMAScript 5 spec in Internet Explorer 9.
OutSystems this week released version 5.1 of its Agile Platform, featuring "1 Click" provisioning designed to help developers quickly get projects up and running on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service.
Microsoft provided more information about security for Windows Azure, publishing a talk and white paper.
Change Management columnist Bola Rotibi continues her exploration of the challenges and opportunities shaping the adoption of user experience and rich Internet application development in the corporate space. (Part 2 of 2)
- By Bola Rotibi
- 08/10/2010
Microsoft today released the fourth "platform preview" of Internet Explorer 9, the company's next-generation Web browser.
Microsoft knows HTML5 is coming, and Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) needs to implement it or face irrelevance.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 08/01/2010
Change Management columnist Bola Rotibi explores the issues hindering development of rich interactive applications in the enterprise. (Part 1 of 2)
- By Bola Rotibi
- 07/29/2010
In part 2 of his series on Web performance testing and load testing in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Ben Day explains how to set up a load test rig to determine how well your application performs with multiple users.
- By Benjamin Day
- 07/12/2010
Creating your own module for managing menus is not only ridiculously easy, but opens the door for adding any other enhancements that you can think of.
ASP.NET 4 adds a wealth of features for client-side developers, including new ways of instantiating controls, a new infrastructure for managing libraries and some minor but much-needed tweaks. And there's more.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the third "platform preview" release of its Internet Explorer 9 browser prototype.
Performance testing and debugging is a major focus of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
- By Benjamin Day
- 06/17/2010