Application Development News & Articles


Microsoft Releases Beta of Key Virtualization Product

Hyper-V is pushed out ahead of time.

ELC and FiveRuns Team on Enterprise Ruby on Rails

Companies advocate a hosted monitoring solution to improve the performance of RoR applications in the enterprise.

Microsoft's Partners Are Up for SaaS, Survey Suggests

An IDC survey found that a majority of partners expect to see opportunities from the hosted solutions model of software delivery.

IBM alphaWorks Adds Two Web Services

The free offerings include a mashup maker for Ruby on Rails developers and a social networking content-sharing tool.

Dev Teams Hobbled by Poor Metrics, Study Suggests

A Borland-sponsored report indicates that managers need a more rigorous way of estimating business value in software development projects.

Borland To Add Business Intelligence to ALM Solutions

Company plans to offer solutions with business intelligence capabilities by the middle of next year.

Red Hat Bundles Tooling and Runtime in New JBoss IDE

JBoss Developer Studio provides more open source options for enterprise application developers.

Microsoft Releases ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

The community technology preview will include an option to use a model view controller, which may help some developers write unit tests and better maintain code.

Microsoft Releases Entity Framework Beta 3

Framework supports .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 RTM versions.

Seven Fixes for Final Patch Tuesday of 2007

Patches mainly affect Windows servers and desktops.

Microsoft PDC Is Back On

Conference for developers set for late October 2008 in Los Angeles.

Microsoft, Oracle Diverge on Outside VM Support

Oracle closes ranks, while Microsoft opens up.

Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 Hit RC Milestone

Both products expected to RTM early next year.

New Exploit Targets Internet Explorer

Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 also at risk.

Sun Releases Virtualization Management Tool Under GPLv3

Company adopts open source strategy with its new xVM Ops Center solution.

Sapient Unveils ALM Solution

The consulting and marketing firm now offers software to help companies with agile development.

NetBeans Beta 2 Is Dual-Licensed

Latest release includes a licensing change that better supports open source Java development.

Microsoft Starts Talking Up UC Tools Strategy

Developer portal and tools released as part of unified communications efforts.

Serena Offers Business Mashup Solutions

New products purport to ease mashup development for both IT and business users.

First Look: Popfly

Microsoft's new Web animation tool for nondevelopers is easy to use, and a potential hook into the Silverlight platform.