Like a kid who's overdosed on Christmas cookies, Microsoft looks like it's going to have a hyper 2008.
Internet Explorer has been a source of chagrin to many Web developers over the years due to less-than-perfect W3C standards support. This problem was pervasive with Internet Explorer 6, considering how badly the aging 2001-era browser renders modern CSS-driven layouts.
The Creative Commons foundation recently released the CC+ protocol, which allows authors and other content makers to release their work for free (under the Creative Commons noncommercial license) and charge a fee for commercial use at the same time.
The inaugural Google Web Toolkit (GWT) conference in San Francisco featured a conversation with Joshua Bloch, Google's chief Java architect. He was interviewed by Greg Doench, an executive editor with Pearson Technology Group, which includes book publishers such as Addison-Wesley Professional, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, Sams and Peachpit Press.
Sanbolic bolsters Microsoft's virtualization game plan with Melio clustered file system and LaScala Volume Manager.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/20/2007
Adobe Systems is planning to release the source code for the remoting and messaging technologies within its LiveCycle Data Services suite as a separately branded product called BlazeDS. A beta of the product is available now on the Adobe Labs developer portal.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/20/2007
Just when you thought life couldn't get any riskier for Web app developers, a new species of malicious code is poised to begin oozing onto our networks. Dubbed "Trojans 2.0" by Web security vendor Finjan, this new Web-borne threat leverages Web 2.0 technology -- RSS feeds, social networks, blogs and mashups -- to provide crackers with easy and scalable command-and-control schemes.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/20/2007
Open source community projects and commercial software aren't necessarily adversaries. Some interactions have resulted in a positive outcome for all. One such instance is the KDE project's collaboration with Oslo, Norway-based Trolltech. Since 1996, Trolltech's QT toolkit has been used in the KDE Desktop Environment. The collaboration resulted in user-friendly desktops for Unix and Unix-like operating systems (such as Linux).
WaveMaker Software unveiled two new developer solutions this week: WaveMaker Visual Assembly Studio and WaveMaker Rapid Deployment Framework for Enterprise Web 2.0. The former is designed to provide enterprise departmental developers with a visual dev tool for building data-driven Web apps. The latter enables those apps to be deployed to industry-standard Java app servers.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/20/2007
With hundreds of millions of lines of code contained in Web browser applications, even the most informed and seasoned developers are bound to overlook a couple of things.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/19/2007
The rise of virtual machines may prove to be somewhat of a nightmare for entrenched purveyors of closed operating systems, but it may become a boon for independent software vendors (ISVs) and end users -- so a recent Yankee Group report suggests.
Microsoft CRM 4.0 should be hitting the shelves -- virtual or otherwise -- by year’s end.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/18/2007
Harold Decker usually installs Microsoft's security patches the day after the release, one Wednesday a month with no fanfare.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/18/2007
Search Server 2008 Express takes on Google’s Mini Search Appliance.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/15/2007
OpenID system is top contender in online ID-management frameworks.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/15/2007
IdentityMine provides UI components to simplify coding in WPF.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/15/2007
Tami Reller announced as CFO of Microsoft’s Platform & Services Division.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/15/2007
OpenSolaris and Windows can cooperate thanks to released CIFS code
- By John K. Waters
- 12/15/2007
Reed Sturtevant will head new Microsoft concept development unit.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/15/2007
Dynamics CRM 4.0 could score big for Microsoft in the midmarket space.
- By Richard Adhikari
- 12/15/2007