Application Development News & Articles


Adobe Offers Free Flex Builder 2 to Educational Users

Company reaches out with rich Web app development environment.

GT Helps Racing Company Stay Agile

Solution helped turned mainframe COBOL assets into services.

IBM Funds University Collaboration Studies

Universities get grants to use IBM's Jazz collaboration platform for distributed-team software development.

Microsoft Adds Mobile Device Management to Lineup

New server allows centralized management of mobile devices.

Agile Process Showcased at IT Architect Event

Architects got an earful on the proper way to do agile software development at a recent IASA event.

SAP Adds Eclipse Tool, Joins OSGi

Company contributes memory management tool to open source Eclipse environment.

IBM Grows Its SOA Partner Community

Membership increases to 4,100 partners as IBM beefs up resources for partners.

Ballmer Announces Popfly Beta

Microsoft's CEO demonstrated the new Web development tool at the Web 2.0 Summit, using Popfly to create a mashup for Facebook.

IT Must Tackle Five Trends, Analyst Group Says

Let innovation happen with Web 2.0 apps and software-as-a-service delivery.

DataDirect Puts the zIIP in SOA Mainframes

The company's latest data integration solution for mainframes optimizes mission-critical apps using IBM's "System z" specialty engines.

Distributed Computing Studies Get Google, IBM Support

The two companies are providing material support to universities with resource-intensive computing curricula.

Live From VSLive!: Five Questions With Paul Sheriff on Architecting ASP.NET

Shops need a greater focus on architecture, rather than just coding.

Microsoft Launches Communications Suite

Era of seamless communications to start, says Bill Gates.

Eclipse RAP Integrates Java Tools for RIA Development

Platform lets users build rich Internet applications in Java via the Eclipse development environment.

Borland Simplifies Modeling in New ALM App

The company's open source application lifecycle management product now includes a toolkit that supports domain-specific languages.

Trolltech Integrates Qt Framework with Eclipse

Developers of rich Web apps can now work across C++ and Java environments.

Speed AJAX Development With ATF

The new AJAX Toolkit Framework promises a comprehensive open source solution for JavaScript-based development of data-intensive, Web-based business apps.

DataDirect Rolls Out Enterprise MySQL Drivers

New driver products facilitate enterprise database deployment and application development.

Zend To Integrate Its PHP IDE With Eclipse

In other news from the company's annual event, Zend announced collaborative agreements with Microsoft, IBM and Oracle.

Top 10 Overlooked Windows Server 2008 Features -- Part 2

Upgrades include faster network stack, plus Group Policy enhancements.