Application Development Trends' News


Salesforce.com Previews On-Demand Programming Language and Platform

Salesforce.com is set to preview a new programming language and platform at its annual Dreamforce 06 Conference, underway this week in San Francisco (Oct 9-11).

ElectricCommander Automates Post-coding Development Tasks

Software production management provider Electric Cloud has rounded out its suite of products with ElectricCommander, an enterprise-class solution that automates the build, package, test and deploy stages of software development.

.NET Patch Coming Tuesday

Microsoft will be releasing a patch for the .NET Framework on Tuesday as part of its regularly scheduled monthly security update.

Vista RC2 Ships -- But to a Select Audience

As expected, Microsoft released what it terms Windows Vista Release Candidate 2 on Friday. The move was widely predicted after at least two Microsoft-focused Web sites jumped the gun and released information and links pointing to the download earlier in the week.

Vista RC2 May Come Friday

With Windows Vista's promised ship date to corporate customers less than two months away, the rumor mill has been going wild with reports of phantom release candidate sightings. The latest is that Microsoft may release a new test build on Friday.

VMware to Ship Infrastructure 3 Update

VMware is shipping the latest iteration of its infrastructure bundle this week, as well as the beta of a third-generation virtual machine conversion utility.

Borland Readies Lifecycle Quality Management Bundle

Borland says it is readying a new application lifecycle quality management (LQM) solution that is based on its existing Caliber products as well as two sets of products it recently acquired.

iTKO Enhances SOA Continuous Testing Service

Dallas-based iTKO is releasing an upgrade to its SOA testing platform this week. The LISA 3.5 Complete SOA Test Platform is a Java-based toolset designed to automate testing without requiring any coding.

UC Davis Researchers Receive Grant to Study Open Source Dev

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 Adds ASP.NET AJAX Support to Studio Enterprise

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.

Broad Beta of .NET Micro Framework Debuts

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 PowerShell Tool Nears Q4 Release

Microsoft is shipping Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of its PowerShell 1.0 command line environment and scripting language for Windows Server 2003.

Compatibility Questions Raised for Vista and Visual Studio 2005 SP1

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.

Colligo's Offline Sync for SharePoint

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.

Microsoft Ships Interim Test Build of Vista RC1

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.

Survey Shows Gap Between Developers, Corporate Security Priorities

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.

Allchin's Last Act: Vista Pitchman

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.

V.i. Delivers Knight in Shining Armor for 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.

Flagship Product Analyzes Red-flagged Apps

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.

webMethods to Acquire SOA Governance Provider Infravio

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.