PreviousPHP framework gets enterprise features
News Zend Framework 1.9, released on Friday, adds business-friendly features to web applications, including support for Active Directory and eDirectory [30 Jul 2009]
IBM acquires source code-scanning tools
News The company has acquired Ounce Labs, which makes products intended to help companies catch security and compliance problems early in the development process [29 Jul 2009]
BlackBerry dev tools target Eclipse, Visual Studio
News RIM's latest plug-ins are aimed at developers looking to build BlackBerry web apps in familiar coding environments [29 Jul 2009]
Novell releases Suse appliance-building kit
News The Suse Appliance Program provides free tools for quickly building software appliances and delivering them in any virtual environment, as well as in datacentres and Amazon's cloud [29 Jul 2009]
Google releases Donut code, denies multitouch
News The latest version of the Android mobile OS does not have multitouch support, according to a Google developer [27 Jul 2009]
Adobe begins public testing of ColdFusion 9
News Beta versions of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder have been released, promising better integration with Microsoft Office and Adobe's Flash platform [13 Jul 2009]
Google names Chrome OS hardware partners
News The search and advertising giant has named the companies it will work with to develop hardware to support its Chrome operating system [09 Jul 2009]
Mozilla calls on coders to build web-tool index
News Mozilla Labs is asking programmers to help build an Open Web Tools Directory, in a bid create a comprehensive index of all the open-source developer tools available [08 Jul 2009]
Microsoft promise lets Mono off the hook
News The software maker is to extend its Community Promise to cover standards that underpin the .NET framework, thus clearing up some of the uncertainty surrounding the Mono project [07 Jul 2009]
Nokia to bridge Maemo and Symbian with Qt
News An upcoming version of Maemo will use Qt rather than GTK+ as its main application development framework, a move Nokia says will make life easier for developers [06 Jul 2009]
IBM offers AI help to mobile developers
News An EU-funded project uses brute force and intelligence to auto-optimise mobile software [01 Jul 2009]
Android developers get native-code kit
News The Android Native Development Kit allows application writers to reuse code in native languages such as C and C++, making it possible to write certain kinds of high-performing apps [26 Jun 2009]
Police expert calls for open-source data tools
News The emergency services should be using open-source software to ease the exchange of data, according to ACPO data expert Ian Readhead [23 Jun 2009]
Knuth: England is home of literate programming 
Video On a visit to London, Professor Donald Knuth gives a rare video interview to ZDNet UK about the past, present and future of computing [12 Jun 2009]
Apache Stonehenge SOA tool hits first milestone
News The project, which aims to provide developers with a set of sample SOA apps that work across languages and platforms, has seen its first key release [08 Jun 2009]
The view from the floor at JavaOne 
Photo With Oracle's acquisition of Sun stirring uncertainty about what's next for Java and the company, IT pros at JavaOne share their ideas about what's in store [04 Jun 2009]
Sun updates JavaFX and Java SE
News Sun pushes out new versions of Java SE and of JavaFX, its platform for developing rich internet applications, which could underpin a push into new devices [03 Jun 2009]
Ellison and McNealy discuss future of Java
Video At JavaOne in San Francisco, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison talks to Sun chairman Scott McNealy about plans for Java development [03 Jun 2009]
Ingres, Red Hat team on developer stack
News The open-source developer stack combines the Ingres database with JBoss packages from Red Hat and is meant to measure up to proprietary tools from IBM, Oracle and others [29 May 2009]
Google tests out customisation for Apps
News The company is recruiting testers for a beta of a scripting feature that lets businesses customise and automate actions in its online applications [28 May 2009]
