Technology research labs: pure vs. applied
Blog APPLIED: This rather less excitable but equally talented team take a more empirical approach to R&D and, when reviewing the PURE team’s work, might just be overheard muttering things like “well, that’s a crazy idea that would never work in the...
[March 11, 2008, 16:33]
IBM launches free Java toolkits
News The fourth tool, Security Lifecycle Management Tools for IBM Tivoli Access Manager, is an Eclipse-based application that allows the integration of Tivoli Access Manager, IBM Rational development tools and IBM's security and single sign-on Web...
[July 4, 2005, 12:20]
Orange push email trial nearly complete
News The borough said interoperability between its mobile devices and application development platforms was a key factor. Newham was considering moving to open source products three years ago, but eventually agreed to a partnership with Microsoft under...
[March 22, 2006, 11:30]
Beans make XML into Java
News We're trying to drive application development and integration, which are closely related," said Sebastian. Application integration is relying more and more on XML, and application development relies more and more on Java.
[January 27, 2003, 14:36]
Visual Studio.Net review
Reviews With VB.Net, Microsoft is trying to position Visual Basic as a viable enterprise application development language, adding such key features as inheritance, namespaces, multi-threading, and so on -- while preserving some semblance of easy syntax.
[February 17, 2002, 23:00]
Novell ports Evolution to Windows
News Tor Lillqvist, Novell senior software engineer, revealed the latest development in his blog posting yesterday. In an earlier blog, he laid out the Evolution on Windows development path drawn from his speech at a recent open source GNOME desktop...
[June 8, 2005, 11:20]
Mozilla takes on Microsoft.Net
News Indeed, the pace of XUL- and Mozilla-based application development has spiked since the launch of MozDev in September. Some high-profile ventures, such as Redmond, Wash.based Crossgain and OpenDesign -- both backed and founded by Microsoft alumni...
[February 6, 2001, 7:48]
BEA aims to win over Java developers
News At the company's customer conference, BEA executives touted Workshop's ability to marry application development with application integration. With its portal server, BEA will add a mobile-development kit to its portal server around midyear, and...
[March 6, 2003, 11:26]
Does 10x faster development dumb down programming?
Blog Comment I don't think that faster development dumbs down development as much as offers flexibility in development. My company uses revEnterprise for our commercial software development. What we've found is that the combination of the syntax and the fact...
[November 25, 2009, 17:59]
EclipseCon to get CRM treats
News Last autumn, Eclipse hired Ward Cunningham, a software programmer credited with building the first wiki application, as its director of committer community development. Eclipse is one of the most popular tools for Java programming, according to IT...
[March 20, 2006, 8:20]
Could IBM-PeopleSoft deal stave off Oracle?
News The two companies will be dedicating people to joint development and expanded sales and marketing efforts, he said. The two companies will also work to optimise PeopleSoft's applications to run on IBM's DB2 database and migrate PeopleSoft's...
[September 22, 2004, 11:40]
OpenGL 1.4 unveiled
News SGI originally created OpenGL, but the development of the Application Programming Interface is now controlled by the OpenGL Architectural Review Board, which includes as voting members such industry heavyweights as Nvidia, ATI, HP, IBM, Intel and...
[July 16, 2002, 15:35]
Apple takes Safari to Windows and iPhone
News This gives application developers a path to the iPhone, but it falls short of the software-development kit that some were hoping for, which would allow developers to create native applications for the iPhone.
[June 12, 2007, 8:27]
Google announces Chrome operating system
News Harking back to the original third-party application development model for the iPhone, Google stated that application development will be web-based. Google on Tuesday announced the creation of the Google Chrome Operating System project, with the...
[July 8, 2009, 8:35]
Siebel, Microsoft sign .Net pact
News The alliance, which was widely expected, includes collaborative development, global marketing and sales and support for corporate customers. To this end, Siebel has agreed to use Microsoft Visual Studio .Net as its primary development toolset.
[October 21, 2002, 14:52]
Chancellor boosts UK IT industry hopes
News Tony Burton, assistant director of the Council for the Protection of Rural England rejects the idea that planning application red-tape is getting in the way of development. We have a number of sites identified for development in this area and we...
[November 4, 1998, 16:40]
Qt's Developer Days: the top 9 challenges for programmers in 2009 are...
Blog SYNCHRONOUS DATA IS OVER: it's not the end of the world as we know it, but it is the end of synchronous data as we know it - and this is having an impact right down the software application development food chain.
[October 16, 2008, 7:27]
Microsoft RTMs Visual Studio 2008 SP1 & .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Blog This joins “multiple” enhancements to ASP.NET, a renewed effort to support database application development through the ADO.NET Entity Framework and some arguably less surprising integration improvements for SQL Server 2008.
[August 11, 2008, 19:18]
Open source threatens Java servers
News Market researcher IDC found that revenue for application development and "deployment" shrunk by nearly 4 percent from 2001 to 2002. It reduces the cost of development applications and maintaining them.
[February 14, 2003, 14:04]
Vendors snuggle up for Microsoft PDC
Blog Oh - and apparently they’ve catered for 32-bit application development on Windows x64 platforms as well as a number of new .NET technologies and legacy environments too. Just a short train ride from Hollywood, the great and good of the software...
[October 27, 2008, 7:37]



