Application Development Trends' News


Ballmer Unveils Beta of Facebook Tool

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today unveiled the beta version of Popfly, its Web-dev tool for non-developers.

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.

DataDirect Puts the zIIP in SOA Mainframes

DataDirect has upgraded its Shadow mainframe data integration solution.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Are Patches Leading to Exploits?

Hackers may release exploits to coincide with "Patch Tuesday."

Trolltech Integrates Qt Framework with Eclipse

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

SOA Consortium Elects Steering Committee

The advocacy group also studied initial attempts by the U.S. Army to adopt a service-oriented architecture approach.

OSS Gains Ground in Survey of IT Pros

Open source software (OSS) is not so much the underdog in the IT world, according survey findings announced by Barracuda Networks, a provider of e-mail and Web security appliances.

HP Unveils Its SaaS Strategy

HP is offering its Business Technology Optimization solutions as both an on-premises installed solution and as a hosted solution delivered via software-as-a-service (SaaS). The SaaS option is not well known, perhaps, but it's a growing part of HP's general software strategy.

OSS Gains Ground in Survey of IT Pros

Security professionals favor open source software about as much as proprietary solutions for IT deployments, a vendor survey suggests.

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.

Security Flaw Affects XP, Windows Server 2003, IE7

Microsoft issues security advisory on vulnerability first reported in July.

HP Unveils Its SaaS Strategy

Companies can get HP's Business Technology Optimization solutions via a hosted option.

DataDirect Rolls Out Enterprise MySQL Drivers

New driver products facilitate enterprise database deployment and application development.

SAP To Acquire Business Objects

SAP is planning a $6.7 billion purchase of the largest business intelligence software provider.