PreviousMicrosoft launches free robotics software
News Windows-based software platform will be free for hobbyists or researchers, and will help the company take a central role in the robotics industry's development [13 Dec 2006]
Java update warms to scripting languages
News Developers have welcomed Sun's release of Java Standard Edition 6, which gives better support for scripting languages and web services [12 Dec 2006]
100 years of Grace Hopper
News It is 100 years since the birth of the woman credited with doing most to establish modern computer programming techniques [08 Dec 2006]
Sun releases new NetBeans developer tools
News Two new packs for NetBeans IDE aim to make it easier to work on applications for the web and for a range of operating systems [07 Dec 2006]
Students: On your marks for the Imagine Cup
News Microsoft's competition to find the best student software designers around the world is now open, with $170,000 in prize money up for grabs [21 Nov 2006]
Apache project in tune with Java changes
News Just weeks before Sun releases the Java code, Apache Harmony graduates to a top-level project [15 Nov 2006]
Java released under the GPL
News It's finally happened, but the surprise is that Sun's picked the General Public License [13 Nov 2006]
Mono release gives Linux boost to .Net
News Builder: The open source implementation of Microsoft's development framework can now run a much larger percentage of existing .Net applications [09 Nov 2006]
Microsoft releases .Net 3.0 ahead of Vista
News Builder: The tools and frameworks required to write applications for the latest, as yet unreleased, incarnation of Windows are now available [07 Nov 2006]
Microsoft offers tools for Vista, Office and web
News Developers will get free add-ons to create programs for Vista and Office 2007 as well as Ajax-style web applications [07 Nov 2006]
IBM woos Microsoft developers with new tools
News Builder: Company is marketing Lotus Expeditor as an alternative to Microsoft's .Net [03 Nov 2006]
New Windows Embedded 'raises the bar for Linux'
News CE 6.0 matches the openness of open source while protecting partners' intellectual property rights, claims Microsoft [01 Nov 2006]
Urgent security fix for Ruby on Rails users
News Builder: Users of Ruby on Rails have been told to update their installations immediately, following the discovery of a security flaw in the popular open source web application framework [10 Aug 2006]
Open source directory launches beta
News Builder: Ohloh, an open source information provider set up by former Microsoft employees, has released its public beta [20 Jul 2006]
SourceLabs creates automated open source help system
News Builder: Software designed to help corporations resolve open source problems [28 Jun 2006]
JBoss Seam knits AJAX and Java together
News Builder: The Seam project provides an open source framework for Web 2.0 applications written in Java [16 Jun 2006]
EU may make accessibility a legal requirement
News Builder: European governments make moves towards compulsory accessibility requirements in procurement [15 Jun 2006]
Skype hails early developer success
News Builder: After 12 months, Skype's developer programme has picked up support from thousands of coders [13 Jun 2006]
IBM plays XML card in effort to beat Oracle
News Builder: IBM will release an overhauled DB2 database server next month, an upgrade squarely aimed at stealing customers from market leader Oracle [08 Jun 2006]
Mainsoft brings .NET to WebSphere Portal
News Builder: Visual MainWin for J2EE, Portal Edition allows developers to take existing ASP.NET Web applications and recompile them to run on IBM's WebSphere Portal [01 Jun 2006]
