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Zend sets stage for PHP The popular PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) dynamic language continues to attract software heavyweights Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM. Their latest alliances with PHP tools maker Zend Technologies will be highlighted Tuesday at Zend's technical conference. Refining the art of enterprise Web apps It is now more than two years since the AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) buzzword swept through the world of client-server applications, up-ending the old architectures and spurring us to rethink how we can make the browser the center of our world. But long before the coinage of AJAX, rich-client framework vendors JackBe and Nexaweb had already embraced and extended what has become the AJAX ideal.  October 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Oracle highlights Enterprise 2.0 efforts Oracle officials during a Web conference Tuesday cited collaborative benefits of Enterprise 2.0 and cast the company's WebCenter platform as its product offering in this space. October 2, 1:45 p.m. PDT Common AJAX platform seen for devices, desktops Anticipating one Web emerging for both mobile and desktop access, dignitaries at a mobile AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) workshop last Friday also saw a common AJAX platform emerging across both mediums. October 1, 12:59 p.m. PDT Microsoft Silverlight rivals Flash, AJAX Microsoft's much-touted and much-anticipated RIA (rich Internet application) entry, Silverlight, lets Web developers and designers create "rich, engaging user experiences with 2-D graphics, animation, images, media, and video," to use Microsoft's own description. Silverlight competes in this arena with Adobe Flash and Flex, with OpenLaszlo and Curl, and with a variety of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) frameworks. October 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT Move over Google: Adobe joins Web office buzz zone with Buzzword buy Is Adobe sneaking up on Google's turf with new moves Monday into online document services? An Adobe executive would not characterize the announcements this way, but the similarities seem obvious. September 30, 9:01 p.m. PDT Tech giants chart research goals Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies. September 26, 2:53 p.m. PDT AJAXWorld: Nexaweb hails mashups With an upgrade to its Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Suite being released Monday, Nexaweb will focus on visual capabilities for building mashups. September 24, 6:00 a.m. PDT JackBe readies Presto Wires mashup composer Raising the stakes in the burgeoning mashup development tools field, JackBe is unveiling Presto Wires, a visual enterprise mashup composer, at the AJAXWorld conference in Santa Clara, Calif. on Monday. September 21, 6:00 a.m. PDT CodeGear releases IDE for Ruby on Rails CodeGear on Monday is releasing CodeGear 3rdRail, an IDE for building applications with the popular Ruby on Rails open source Web framework. September 16, 9:00 p.m. PDT BEA, Adobe forge rich Internet apps partnership BEA Systems and Adobe Systems are partnering on rich Internet application development in an arrangement incorporating both SOA and Web 2.0 concepts. September 11, 5:00 a.m. PDT Best of open source in software development The wealth of open source software development goodies is heaven for the developer community, but it's hell on an awards committee. Considering IDEs, debuggers, defect trackers, code coverage tools, unit testers, load testers, and so on, we could have come up with more awards here than the rest of the Bossies combined. Then there were paths that could only lead to trouble. Could we really choose a best language? Or a best development platform? Could we pick Python over Perl, or Rails over Mono? September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT AJAX pioneer emphasizes user experiences The inventor of the term AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), urged attendees at The Rich Web Experience conference in San Jose, Calif. Friday to emphasize user experience when designing products. September 7, 4:45 p.m. PDT Web, AJAX slammed for deficiencies The Web and AJAX have many deficiencies, including security holes, and much more needs to be done to iron out these problems, according to a keynote speaker at The Rich Web Experience conference in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday evening September 7, 8:15 a.m. PDT Rich Web technologies debated While the landscape for rich Web development technologies is getting crowded, industry dignitaries at The Rich Web Experience conference in San Jose, Calif. Thursday nonetheless saw a place for the various entrants in this space. September 6, 2:14 p.m. PDT Microsoft releases Silverlight 1.0 video technology Microsoft is releasing its Silverlight 1.0 plug-in for video on the Web Wednesday and also will participate in Novell's porting of Silverlight to Linux via the Moonlight project. September 4, 9:01 p.m. PDT Tibco adds to AJAX tool Tibco this week said it is shipping General Interface 3.5, an upgraded version of its AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) toolkit featuring performance and tooling enhancements. August 31, 1:04 p.m. PDT WebAssist to assist CSS users WebAssist with its release of Eric Meyer's CSS Sculptor tool Thursday is looking to make using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) easier for Adobe Dreamweaver users. August 23, 4:00 a.m. PDT Moviestar debut brings high-def video to Flash Adobe Systems plans to take its popular Flash Player technology to the next level Tuesday, unveiling an update codenamed "Moviestar" equipped with high-definition video technology. August 20, 9:01 p.m. PDT Make mashups secure With the advent of mashups, innovative developers all over the enterprise are seeking new ways to leverage the value of corporate information through the use of external Web applications, APIs, or services. Although the thought of this adventure has sent many corporate security specialists running behind their firewalls, mashups are here to stay. Indeed, they have strategic value for many enterprises, so you’d better figure out how to live with them. August 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT The ABC's of RIA Rich Internet applications, or RIAs, comprise a spectrum of application types and technologies. The lightweight end of the spectrum is anchored by AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) or Web 2.0 applications, which add richness and responsiveness to standard Web sites with asynchronous JavaScript libraries: that's the "AJA" part of "AJAX." The "X" stands for "XML," but these days XML is not the only data format used by such libraries; it's also common to see asynchronous data exchange in JSON, HTML, and plain text formats. At this point, many people have stopped treating "AJAX" as a specific acronym and talk instead about the generic "Ajax" class of applications. August 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Easy-to-learn Curl 5.0 equips developers to create powerful RIAs RIAs (rich Internet applications) are all the rage now, and for good reason: Given the wide availability of high-speed Internet service, they have the potential to combine the ease-of-access of Web applications with the ease-of-use of desktop applications. Curl, which is a programming language, an IDE, and a runtime engine, was actually ahead of its time back in 2003, when I wrote about Curl 2.0 for Byte.com. However, broadband access wasn't quite so widespread at the time, and the idea of RIAs didn't seem quite so compelling. August 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Adobe ColdFusion links to AIR Adobe will ship its ColdFusion 8 application development platform Monday, offering faster performance and basic linkages to Adobe's AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) technology. July 29, 9:01 p.m. PDT Microsoft releases rich media app betas This week Microsoft is quietly delivering a flurry of updates to its developer community, including the release candidate version of Silverlight, the new rich media competitor to Adobe's Flash Player. Also available for download will be a Silverlight plug-in for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 -- another huge hunk of bits Microsoft is making available for download this week. None of this would be complete without Beta 2 of the 3.5 version of the .Net Framework itself, also ready for downloading. July 26, 3:02 p.m. PDT Icesoft improves AJAX environment for Web 2.0 apps Icesoft Technologies announced availability of Icefaces 1.6.0, an upgrade to the company's AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development environment positioned for building of Web 2.0 applications, on Tuesday. July 10, 3:10 p.m. PDT IBM zeroes in on Project Zero for Web 2.0 apps IBM is working on a project to enable agile development of Web 2.0 applications, but the effort has drawn criticism because it is not an open source endeavor. July 6, 2:03 p.m. PDT Moonlight beaming Silverlight to Linux Developers of Moonlight, a Linux client version of Microsoft's new Silverlight multimedia technology, are closing in on feature-completeness, a leader of the project said on Monday. June 25, 1:40 p.m. PDT Microsoft puts the spotlight on Silverlight again Microsoft held another dog-and-pony show Friday to tout its prized Silverlight rich media technology, which will take on Adobe's ubiquitous Flash Player for the hearts and minds of developers. June 22, 3:16 p.m. PDT Adobe AIR fulfills hopes for cross-platform developers Developers have high hopes for Adobe's newly named AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) software, but reservations remain about the technology's cross-platform capability and learning curve. June 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Internet TV to get Silverlight Maven Networks, which provides hosting services for Internet TV, will announce Wednesday plans to add Microsoft's new Silverlight technology as a video delivery vehicle. June 12, 4:08 p.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Todd Schofield Todd Schofield joined International SOS after a string of CTOs had done one-year stints. He soon found out why. June 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Google stresses mashups at developer event Google touted on Thursday its building-block approach for application development, which features mashups and open source software. May 31, 1:35 p.m. PDT Adobe's ColdFusion warms to .Net Adobe's ColdFusion software for building Internet applications and Web sites is being improved with Microsoft .Net support, enabling .Net objects to be invoked from within the ColdFusion language. May 29, 9:00 p.m. PDT Rails creator doubts Silverlight can win converts David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of one of the hottest technologies amongst software developers these days: the Ruby on Rails Web framework. Hailing from Denmark, Hansson is a partner at 37signals, a Chicago firm that develops tools for communications and collaboration. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Hansson during the RailsConf 2007 event in Portland, Ore., last week, where Hansson expressed pride in how the community has latched onto Ruby on Rails. Development of Ruby on Rails 2.0, featuring REST (Representational State Transfer) is in progress. Hansson stressed Rails' emphasis on convention over configuration, suggested Microsoft is having battles internally regarding open source, and expressed doubts about whether Microsoft can win converts to its new Silverlight technology. May 21, 1:09 p.m. PDT REST Web services critical to Rails upgrade Ruby on Rails 2.0, a planned upgrade to the open-source Web framework, will feature REST (Representational State Transfer) as its preferred choice for Web services, the developer of the framework, David Heinemeier Hansson, said at the RailsConf 2007 event in Portland on Friday. May 18, 2:00 p.m. PDT CodeGear shines up Ruby on Rails tool CodeGear is introducing on Monday developer tools for Ruby on Rails and C++ and also is featuring new technology to merge IDE and command line capabilities. May 13, 9:01 p.m. PDT AJAX, JavaServer Faces ties to get stronger With AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and JSF (JavaServer Faces) component technology representing a one-two punch for Web development, plans are moving forward to strengthen support for AJAX in the JSF specification. May 10, 4:20 p.m. PDT CodeGear CEO eyes Ruby Formed late last year, CodeGear currently is the developer tools arm of Borland Software but will become a separate company. Early last month, CodeGear announced the appointment of Jim Douglas as CEO. Douglas most recently was president and CEO of ReShape, an electronic design automation startup company. He also has worked at Tality, a spinoff of Cadence Design Systems. May 7, 5:30 a.m. PDT Kaiser asks for a second opinion I always get a big reaction to my column whenever I target a specific company, such as when I vented about AT&T in February (at the time I didn’t even know about the CEO's $160 million boondoggle retirement package – yikes). May 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Users take sides in Flash-Silverlight clash Microsoft's Silverlight technology could give Adobe's rival Flash browser plug-in software a run for its money based on attendee feedback at the Microsoft MIX07 conference in Las Vegas on Monday. April 30, 4:41 p.m. PDT Microsoft adds .Net to give Silverlight a shine Microsoft is integrating the .Net framework into its new Silverlight browser technology for running multimedia applications on the Web, the company revealed Monday. The move is part of an expanded effort to build a significant developer base so Microsoft can catch up to Adobe in providing a revenue-generating business in the RIA (rich Internet application) market. April 30, 12:21 p.m. PDT Sun eyes a JavaScript alternative to AJAX Sun Microsystems is working on Web application development technology that presents an alternative to AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), a Sun official said on Thursday. April 26, 4:30 p.m. PDT Zend readies PHP applications framework Zend Technologies plans to release its Zend Framework 1.0 product by late May, a company official said at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, Calif., on Wednesday. April 26, 5:00 a.m. PDT Dynamic languages: More than just a quick fix IT’s rise to prominence as a core competence that delivers competitive advantage has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in the number of software development projects it must complete. Well aware of the hidden costs of unfulfilled tasks, enterprise IT managers are fast shedding their prejudices against dynamic languages in search of a quick way to cut down the backlog. April 16, 3:00 a.m. PDT What the enterprise can learn from consumer technologies Today’s corporate end-users are far more tech-savvy than their productivity with IT tools indicates. After all, screen-deep in IMs, widgets, and elaborate consumer Web apps, they’re proving themselves well-versed in the production and distribution of content as facilitated by the consumer Web 2.0 craze. April 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft adds Expression tools to MSDN Microsoft is making changes to the distribution model of its Expression application design tools and also is fending off a challenge to the recent discontinuance of the Visual FoxPro developer tool. April 3, 2:57 p.m. PDT Tibco adds AJAX test tool Tibco Software is debuting on Monday an open-source test tool for AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) applications built with the company's General Interface toolkit. April 2, 5:00 a.m. PDT Iona adds repository for SOAs Iona Technologies Inc. is broadening its suite of Artix infrastructure software with a new tool announced Monday for managing software services in an SOA environment. March 26, 4:57 a.m. PST Ruby luster readied for Java Engineers at Sun are eyeing May for the release of a 1.0 version of JRuby, which provides a Java implementation of the Ruby language. March 22, 1:05 p.m. PST Java symposium extends to other technologies Is TheServerSide Java Symposium de-emphasizing Java? March 22, 9:00 a.m. PST Microsoft joins OpenAJAX group Microsoft on Tuesday will reveal that it is now participating in the OpenAjax Alliance, joining with other members to make the AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web scripting technique more interoperable. March 20, 9:30 a.m. PST Tech tops the pop charts Remember the adrenaline rush when you first saw MTV in 1981? When they played “She Blinded Me With Science” in ’83? Well, if you want a fresh, geeky, thought-provoking video experience that gets your heart pumping, check out “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us,” one of the top-viewed videos on YouTube. It’ll appeal to the coder in you, as well as the futurist. March 15, 3:00 a.m. PST Zend ships Windows-ready PHP Zend Technologies plans on Tuesday to announce availability of its PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) distribution tuned for deploying PHP applications on Windows. March 5, 9:00 a.m. PST Eclipse focuses on AJAX at conference Dynamic scripting languages, a popular choice for Web application development, will be a top priority for the Eclipse Foundation at the EclipseCon conference, which begins Monday in Santa Clara, Calif. March 4, 9:00 p.m. PST Ruby brightens the NetBeans platform Sun Microsystems has added Ruby support to the NetBeans IDE and bolstered the JRuby platform as well, company officials acknowledged on Thursday. March 1, 4:15 p.m. PST Microsoft ponders Ruby language Microsoft is "very interested" in the Ruby programming language and also plans to expand its Expression design tools line, a Microsoft official said this week. February 23, 1:15 p.m. PST CodeGear extends Delphi for PHP, Vista, AJAX PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) developers will get an assist from CodeGear on Tuesday, with the introduction of a rapid application development environment for the scripting language. February 19, 9:01 p.m. PST 12 crackpot tech ideas that could transform the enterprise Technologies that push the envelope of the plausible capture our curiosity almost as quickly as the would-be crackpots who dare to concoct them become targets of our derision. February 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Kapow energizes mashups Kapow Technologies will announce on Tuesday general availability of Kapow Mashup Server 6.2, featuring access to RSS and ATOM feeds in the building of mashup applications. February 13, 5:00 a.m. PST Zend touts PHP app server Eyeing organizations that run business-critical Web applications on the PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) platform, Zend Technologies will offer its Zend Platform 3.0 PHP application server on Monday. February 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft makes AJAX technology available Without further adieu, Microsoft released its ASP.Net AJAX 1.0 technology, formerly called Atlas, to the Web on Tuesday. January 23, 12:51 p.m. PST Microsoft makes multimedia app design play At its ExpressionSession07 event on Thursday, Microsoft drove home the point that multimedia technologies are critical to applications and that it is ready to be a major player in this space. January 18, 3:45 p.m. PST Zend readies PHP for Windows Zend Technologies on Tuesday is unveiling a public beta program for Zend Core 2.0, which extends the company's PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) platform to Microsoft Windows. January 16, 6:00 a.m. PST Tabblo’s approach to rich Internet apps If you want a peek into the future of RIAs (rich Internet applications), take a look at Tabblo (tabblo.com). The model that Tabblo has set into motion for photographers -- both amateur and professional -- will soon be adopted by enterprise IT to empower its user base. January 16, 3:00 a.m. PST Agile scripting: Bigger bang for app-dev bucks Enterprises will spend too much this year creating monolithic apps — the sort of server-side efforts that involve formal requirements and tie up dozens (or hundreds) of architects, coders, and testers. Most would be better off using scripting languages, Web services, and SOA to weave together browser-based apps that leverage existing assets. January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Software Development: Simplicity tops the agenda Software development continued to move toward simplicity in 2006. Most evident was the widespread adoption of SOA (services-oriented architecture), which has become the technology of choice for integrating systems of all kinds -- in-house between departments, across stovepipe applications, and in B2B and B2C commerce. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Nexaweb upgrades Web 2.0 platform Nexaweb on Monday is expanding its Enterprise Web 2.0 application platform, adding a client framework for AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and Java as well as Web services enhancements. December 18, 3:30 a.m. PST Adobe tackles browser incompatibilities Honing in on browser incompatibility issues in Web development, Adobe Systems on Thursday is announcing CSS Advisor, a Web site that documents these problems and offers solutions. December 14, 1:30 p.m. PST Data export, delivered From time to time I get recruited to help someone export mail and contacts from one e-mail program and import the data into another. The fact that a civilian must recruit a geek to accomplish this seemingly mundane task speaks volumes about our industry’s sad history of data lock-in. December 6, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft advancing design tools platform Eyeing the rich application design space, Microsoft on Monday is detailing milestones in its Expression design tools platform, including the introduction of Expression Media to manage video files, images, and fonts. December 4, 9:00 a.m. PST Top AJAX tools deliver rich GUI goodness The buzzword AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is just a few months shy of its second birthday, but it’s already ubiquitous, and even the technology itself has begun to gather steam. Its success is no surprise to some of the major commercial AJAX-tools vendors -- they all started building their packages for conquering the JavaScript layer long before the buzzword arrived. Some are more than five years old, and it’s easy to use adjectives including “mature,” “established,” and “polished” to describe these wares. November 27, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft embraces AJAX, IronPython Las Vegas -- Microsoft on Tuesday further embraced dynamic scripting, revealing AJAX-friendly (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) enhancements planned for the upcoming Visual Studio "Orcas" tools platforms and a marriage of IronPython and ASP.Net. November 7, 2:55 p.m. PST Microsoft releases .Net Framework 3.0 LAS VEGAS - Microsoft's .Net Framework 3.0, featuring the company's latest innovations in Web services, presentation and workflow, is now available to developers, the company said on Monday. November 6, 6:30 p.m. PST Zend hails PHP for Microsoft, IBM Zend Technologies is perhaps the first name in PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), the popular open-source scripting language for Web development. The company both participates in development of PHP and offers products around the server-side development platform. Andi Gutmans, a cofounder of the company and its vice president of technology, spoke with InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill this week at the Zend/PHP Conference & Expo in San Jose, Calif., about PHP, the company's blockbuster deal with Microsoft, and other happenings. November 3, 5:30 a.m. PST PHP road map revealed SAN JOSE, Calif. -- PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) 5.2, the latest version of the popular open source scripting language, is set to be released this Thursday, Zend Technologies Co-Founder Andi Gutmans said on Tuesday. October 31, 3:40 p.m. PST PHP event: Open source accommodation emphasized SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Rather than fighting the open source wave, commercial IT vendors do what they must: try to ride that wave. October 31, 2:00 p.m. PST Microsoft moves on AJAX Microsoft has released a beta version of its AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) programming technology, formerly code-named Atlas and now called Microsoft ASP.Net AJAX v1.0. October 23, 9:30 a.m. PDT AJAX made easier Down Under Seeing a need to make AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web development easier, Tasmania, Australia-based Morfik later this year plans to offer Version 1.0 of WebOS AppsBulder, an IDE that lets developers program in familiar languages. October 19, 5:00 a.m. PDT Flapjax on the griddle for Web apps Flapjax, an open source programming language leveraging AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and geared toward easier development of Web applications, made its debut this week. October 13, 2:45 p.m. PDT Sun, Laszlo take Java into Orbit for devices Sun Microsystems and Laszlo Systems are collaborating to enable applications based on the OpenLaszlo rich Internet development platform to run on devices running Java Platform ME (Micro Edition). October 10, 4:00 a.m. PDT Interview: Microsoft, Apple eyed for AJAX alliance In February, a group of technology vendors, including BEA Systems, Google, IBM, and Oracle, formed the OpenAjax Alliance, with the goal of promoting the popular AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web development technique. Since then, more vendors, such as Sun Microsystems, have joined, and the alliance has launched its OpenAjax Hub project to boost interoperability among AJAX libraries. One of the founders of OpenAjax was David Boloker, who holds the titles of distinguished engineer and CTO of emerging Internet technologies at the IBM software group. He also serves on the alliance's steering committee. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill spoke with Boloker at the AJAXWorld Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, Calif., on Wednesday about AJAX, the security issues around it, and the possibilities of other vendors such as Microsoft and Apple joining the alliance. October 6, 4:00 p.m. PDT Evolving Amazon's services into products The announcements from Amazon Web Services LLC just keep on coming. The latest news flash is FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon), which will make Amazon’s warehouse, its customer service, and its pick, pack, and ship machinery available to sellers. October 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT AJAX: Roller skates for the Web SANTA CLARA, CALIF. -- AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web application development can be roller skates for the Web; it must be used appropriately or it can be dangerous, said Jesse James Garrett, the IT consultant credited with coining the term "AJAX." October 3, 12:00 p.m. PDT Sun to shine on AJAX Sun Microsystems will shine more light on accommodations for AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) in the Java realm at the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, Calif. next week. September 28, 2:10 p.m. PDT OpenAjax Alliance tackles interoperability Looking to bolster AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and development of Web 2.0 applications, the OpenAjax Alliance on Wednesday plans to introduce a project that addresses AJAX interoperability issues. September 19, 9:01 p.m. PDT Microsoft moves up shipment of AJAX technologies Microsoft on Monday is unveiling its official Atlas technology branding for AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) programming on ASP.Net, and will make the software available sooner than planned. September 11, 12:30 p.m. PDT Adobe upgrading e-learning presentation software Adobe Systems on Tuesday is announcing Adobe Captivate 2, an upgraded version of its Flash-based software for developing computer-based demonstrations and interactive simulations. September 4, 9:01 p.m. PDT The case for altruism The first timeI heard about Wikipedia, I thought, This has no shot. Why would highly qualified people devote their energies to an encyclopedia they couldn’t make a dime on? September 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT JavaScript, .Net developers aided in separate projects JavaScript and .Net developers are getting helping hands in application-building efforts, through separate projects intended to make it easier to use JavaScript and to document .Net projects. August 31, 2:00 p.m. PDT Nexaweb enhancing 'Enterprise Web 2.0' apps Nexaweb is enhancing business logic integration, data visualization, and visual editing in its Eclipse-based development environment for "Enterprise Web 2.0" applications. August 23, 9:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft looks to accommodate dynamic languages The growing popularity of dynamic languages, such as Perl, Python, and Ruby -- which are popular for building Web applications -- has caused companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems to stand up and take a look. Although Microsoft has championed development using traditional Windows development languages such as Visual Basic and C#, the company has recently made accommodations for dynamic languages, with projects such asIronPython and Phalanger hosted on Microsoft's CodePlex site for community development. Still, Microsoft is largely leaving it to the community at large to provide the dynamic-language capabilities on the .Net Framework. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill and Test Center Executive Editor Doug Dineley spoke this week to Jason McConnell, the Visual Studio product manager responsible for all languages at Microsoft, about the state of dynamic languages on .Net. August 18, 11:35 a.m. PDT Does “built to last” apply to IT? Over the weekend, I bought an amazing antique chair: a fancy wooden office swivel chair in practically mint condition, including all its original cast-iron hardware. Although probably made between 1900 and 1915 (the patent date is 1897), it’s remarkably modern, with fully adjustable height, tilt, and back support, like the best Aeron chairs of today (well, its wooden surfaces are a tad stiffer). With any luck, it will last another 100 years and be just as functional. August 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Adobe Flex 2.0 enriches the RIA development experience Flash forward from my 2004 review of Macromedia Flex 1.5 — a product plagued by limited, proprietary features, clumsy development opportunity, and a hefty price tag — and you’ll find a refreshed suite sporting more than just a new proprietor. August 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Racing to market with SOA Oded Noy had faced challenges before — when he co-founded an application management startup, for instance, or when he participated in war game simulations for the Israeli Air Force. But this was unique: Create a scalable platform that would transform the online car shopping and financing experience for consumers — in six months. August 9, 12:40 p.m. PDT Why Microsoft should open XAML Our marketing-driven and future-oriented IT industry doesn’t like to remember its own history. It’s surprisingly hard to recover the historical context of current events. Happily, though, there’s one developer-oriented Microsoft online property with a memory. Channel 9, the video/podcast/screencast guerilla arm of the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), has been active since March 2004, and so far, what’s posted to Channel 9 stays on Channel 9. That’s how I found this wonderful juxtaposition: August 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT Enterprise mashups They’re all the rage in the Web 2.0 crowd: mashup services that typically combine maps with all sorts of data from a variety of Web sources. In the past year, we’ve seen a host of much-discussed sites pop up, from Zillow.com for real-estate value estimation, to AuctionMapper, which presents eBay search results on maps to help locate the nearest sellers. July 28, 9:31 a.m. PDT Sprint wrangles mashups Mashups are seductive, thanks to their whizzy interfaces and lightweight development requirements. To creative developers, they constitute an open invitation to mix and match data and services in unexpected ways. But if you don’t think them through from an enterprise perspective, “mashups are no more than Happy Meal toys,” says Edmund Vazquez, manager of Web services integration and SOA implementation at Sprint Nextel. July 28, 9:31 a.m. PDT The rise of open infrastructure When entrepreneurs pitch their software-as-a-service ideas to me, I always ask how they plan to compete with what I call the galactic clusters -- Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. These giants have set a high bar for Internet-scale operations, and they’re relentlessly pushing it higher. July 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT Adobe's Flex platform now better positioned against AJAX An update to Adobe’s Flex rich Internet application development platform last week makes the technology less expensive to use, and could make Flex more competitive with open source AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development systems. July 3, 6:00 a.m. PDT Adobe pumps up rich Internet apps with Flex 2 Looking to increase adoption of its Flex rich Internet application development technology, Adobe Systems is releasing its Flex 2 product line on Wednesday, which features free versions and the ability to push data to clients. June 27, 9:01 p.m. PDT > Application development |
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