Application Development News & Articles


Amazon To Host Microsoft Solutions in the Cloud

Amazon plans to offer hosted solutions using Microsoft's server technologies in the fall.

LongJump Addresses 'Long Tail' of IT Development

New Java-based, Eclipse-compatible rapid application development suite for cloud computing focuses heavily on reuse.

Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Available

Microsoft issued a new runtime of its rich Internet application development platform, targeting developers.

MyEclipse Mixes in More Maven

Genuitec has implemented Maven2 in the latest milestone release of its MyEclipse integrated development environment (IDE).

Visual Studio To Include jQuery Library

Microsoft plans to incorporate an open source JavaScript library in Visual Studio and ASP.NET, and contribute to the project.

It's Official: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0

SQL Server 2005 off the roadmap for Team System 2010.

Mike's Rails Zone: Handling Many-to-Many Relationships in Rails

Mike Gunderloy walks you through the steps and code needed for handling this kind of relationship in the user interface.

You Say You Want a Runtime Revolution?

Runtime Revolution calls its new rapid application development environment 'the world's easiest programming tool.'

Integrated Collaborative Environment Leverages Web 2.0

Bluenog ICE integrates CMS, BI and RIA portal features.

SQL Server 2008 Hits High Mark, Minus the Competition

Microsoft's database management system did well on the TPC-E processing test, but the competition doesn't use that benchmark.

Windows 7 Bits To Be Released at PDC'08

A pre-beta of Microsoft's newest operating system will be available in late October at the developer event.

Microsoft To Expand Security Lifecycle Expertise

New Security Development Lifecycle tools and services will be available in November.

Zend and Adobe Partner on RIAs at PHP User Conference

ZendCon featured a partnership announcement, bringing together PHP and Adobe's rich Internet application technologies.

SQL Injection Attack Hits Magazine Site

BusinessWeek's Web site was hit at the back end through SQL injection.

Cray Unveils CX1 Supercomputer for Office Use

Intel and Microsoft technologies are integrated in the new high-performance computing machine.

VMware's Vision of Virtualization as the OS

VMware aims for the cloud with its new Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS)

Intel Rolls Out Six-Core Xeon 7400 Processors

New processors aimed at datacenter and virtualization markets.

Google's Chrome Browser Contains Microsoft Code

The newly launched Web browser uses Microsoft's Windows Template Library, and other open source code.

Sun Expands Virtualization Portfolio, Partners with Microsoft

Sun launches free hypervisor, new version of Ops Center and Microsoft partnership.

Microsoft Boosts Modeling Strategy and Rejoins OMG

Redmond sees modeling as a key part of its .NET Framework and is now working with Object Management Group on standards efforts.