Application Development Trends' News


IBM Goes After Office With Free Desktop Suite

Big Blue looks to open up desktop apps with launch of Lotus Symphony.

New WPF Reference App Displays 'Juicy' Capabilities

Source code for online catalog app, named Tangerine, released by Infragistics.

Google Unveils PowerPoint Competitor

"Presentations" is latest member of Google Docs family.

First Look: REALbasic 2007 Gets Linux Support

Solution offers an alternative way to extend Visual Basic 6 projects and work across platforms.

CodeGear Touches 3rdRail With New IDE

Development tool facilitates Ruby coding using Rails framework.

Microsoft Loses European Court Appeal

No word yet on whether Microsoft will take next step in appeal process.

Microsoft Taps Zander To Head Visual Studio Group

Microsoft has re-organized its developer division, tapping .NET Framework head Jason Zander to oversee the team that puts together Visual Studio, the company's flagship development environment.

SOA Report: BEAWorld Brings New Initiatives

No stone was left unturned as BEA Systems announced new products and initiatives at its BEAworld event.

VMworld Shines Spotlight on Virtualization

Products and partnerships announced at event.

W3C Fires Up the Semantic Web With GRDDL

New recommendations aim to facilitate data sharing and mashups.

Microsoft Ships BizTalk Server 2006

Microsoft this week released a key update to its SOA-based middleware platform—BizTalk.

CollabNet Rolls Out Improved ALM Solution

New Enterprise Edition product makes it easier for companies to manage software development projects through the use of templates and improved collaboration tools.

Microsoft Alters Windows Files Regardless of Update Settings

Nine files changed on both Windows XP and Windows Vista.

MySQL Upgrades Flagship Database, Services

Latest version of open source database is designed to improve performance and simplify management of large applications.

Standards Gain Ground at OpenAjax Alliance

The industry coalition has rallied around its new OpenAjax Hub spec as key means to ensure interoperability for rich browser interactions, as well as to enable mashups.

Build Maintainable JavaScript

You aren't doing your job if another developer can't look at your source and figure out -- easily -- what you were doing.

'Patch Tuesday' Fixes Released

Microsoft pumps out four patches for September.

Usability and Design for Rich Web Experiences

Websites that provide a rich Web experience get more clicks and make more dollars, all else being equal. The trick is figuring out what users regard as rich.

Is Microsoft Office In Trouble?

Recent events bode ill for the dominant productivity suite.