Application Development News & Articles


PDC: Microsoft Releases Geneva Beta

Microsoft on Monday released the first beta of its federated identity services framework aimed at simplifying the way enterprises deploy authentication services.

Yahoo Rewires with Developers in Mind

"Rewiring Yahoo" plan establishes a "front door" for developers into its evolving Open Stack of platform services.

PDC: Microsoft Calls New Cloud Computing OS a 'Turning Point' for Company

New service-based operating system is called Windows Azure.

Skytap To Demo Cloud Lab at Microsoft's PDC Event

The service lets developers create testing environments on the fly.

Open Ajax Alliance Offers New IDE and Mashup Tools

OpenAjax Hub 1.1 among debuts at this week's AjaxWorld RIA Conference & Expo.

Merb: The Rails Alternative

New Ruby framework offers a modular approach.

RIM Reaches Out to Java Jocks

Updated BlackBerry Java Development Environment and new application store among offerings.

Sync Framework: It's Still at Version 1.0

Microsoft didn't update its synchronization platform, despite a slight tweak.

Ballmer Drops Hints About Windows 7, Cloud Computing

Microsoft is gearing up to describe a few of its cutting-edge software technologies in late October.

Microsoft Posts ASP.NET MVC Beta for Download

Official beta for Redmond's new model view controller framework released.

Silverlight 2 Now Available

Microsoft today released the latest version of its multimedia browser app plug-in, which utilizes the .NET Framework.

NSA Posts Secrets to Writing Secure Code

Tokeener case study serves as an example of writing low-defect, highly-reliable code, researchers claim.

Microsoft Reveals Oslo Tools

Company's Connected Services division on Friday announced key components of its 'Oslo' modeling platform.

SpringSource Releases New App Server

OSGi-based Java server is designed to run Spring applications in the enterprise.

11 Fixes Expected for Patch Tuesday

IT admins will see nearly a dozen security fixes on Tuesday, according to Microsoft.

Mono 2.0 Takes Flight

Mono version 2.0, an open source effort to implement the Microsoft .NET development framework for Unix, Linux and other platforms, was formally released Monday.

AccuRev Streams Flow to the Enterprise

SCCM tool supports multiple servers for distributed code management.

Microsoft Outlines Next-Generation Databases

Microsoft is planning to enhance the BI capabilities in the next version of its flagship SQL Server database, the company revealed Monday, as it kicked off its second annual Business Intelligence Conference in Seattle.

Red Hat Expands HPC Solution Availability

The company's Linux-based high-performance computing solution is now available worldwide with support.

Coming to Terms With Cloud Computing

Analysts define an airy concept that's currently looming large on the IT horizon.