Which came first, the chicken or the egg? That's the question Premkuma Devanbu, professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis is hoping to answer. Devanbu and his team have won a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct a three-year study examining how open source software is built.
ComponentOne has just released a new version of its Studio Enterprise toolset for Windows, Web, and mobile application development. Among the new components in this release (v3) is the WebSplitter for ASP.NET, which the company is billing as the first-ever server-side Atlas control.
Microsoft announced the broad public release of a beta developer kit for the .NET Micro Framework last week at the Embedded Systems Conference being held in Boston.
Microsoft is shipping Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of its PowerShell 1.0 command line environment and scripting language for Windows Server 2003.
A key Microsoft executive disclosed this week that the coming Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 may not be totally compatible with Windows Vista -- though it remains unclear what his statements mean.
For SharePoint developers, effective offline synchronization has emerged as a veritable Holy Grail. The workforce today is mobile, and mobile workers need to be able to view and modify team spaces offline, and then sync them with the corporate server. Almost overnight, offline synchronization has become a must-have, add-on capability among SharePoint users.
Part way into testing of Windows Vista Release Candidate 1, Microsoft has released an interim build of the system to be tested on the side by a subset of beta testers.
A recent survey of 400 U.S.-based application developers and programmers showed that while those who build Web applications are more concerned about security than ever before, corporate resources and processes that increase application security aren’t as forthcoming.
Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft’s Platforms and Services Division, is retiring when Windows Vista finally ships to customers. In the meantime, he's flogging Vista to one of the operating system's key constituencies: third-party developers.
Developers may sleep better knowing there’s a new security blanket out there that promises to protect their builds from piracy and reverse engineering. And the product–applied post production–requires no source code modification.
Security solutions are only as efficient as the data they provide. One software company says when it comes to malware, they have a product that separates the wheat from the chaff, advising enterprises which files should and shouldn’t be on their systems.
Business integration software maker webMethods has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Infravio, a maker of Web services registry and governance solutions, the company disclosed last week.
The latest release of a Complex Event Processing solution lets developers take Web services to new heights, with expeditious processing and publishing functions for XML data streams.
More beta testers are welcome to take the final pre-release version of Windows Vista, Release Candidate 1 (RC1), for a test drive, the Redmond software maker announced on Friday.
Microsoft released the Visual Studio 2005 Tools Second Edition Beta for the 2007 Microsoft Office System on Thursday. The timing of the release coincides with the Office 2007 Beta 2 technical refresh, which was also announced last week.
Open source platforms offer flexibility and faster time to production if your team is adept at hand coding and working with command lines. LogicBlaze, sponsors of an open source SOA distribution, released an Eclipse-based dev environment last week designed to do some of the heavy lifting for you.
Sybase subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions wised up its mobile dev platform by extending its support to include Microsoft Smartphone. Now users can develop Web-based apps for both Windows Mobile Smartphone and Pocket PC platforms.
A new program launched this week places SQL under the limelight, as one company looks to laud and standardize the programming language for data queries and analysis. And build a developer community in the process.
Borland Software Corporation on Friday announced a major upgrade of its Together 2006 for Eclipse, an enterprise-modeling platform designed to support architects, Java and C++ developers, Unified Modeling Language (UML) designers, business process analysts, and data modelers.
Developers building Eclipse-based apps will have sturdier shoulders to lean on later this year. At EclipseWorld, IBM announced new software that’ll support the building of open source IDEs.