CodeGear announced yesterday the general availability of its first development tool for Ruby-on-Rails (RoR). The company's new 3rdRail integrated development environment (IDE) comes with several features specifically designed to make it easier and faster for both new and experienced Rails developers to build database-driven Web applications.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/18/2007
Microsoft has re-organized its developer division, tapping .NET Framework head Jason Zander to oversee the team that puts together Visual Studio, the company's flagship development environment.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/17/2007
Parlano brings group chat platform to Redmond's UC stack.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 09/15/2007
PerformancePoint Server launch to bolster Redmond’s BI push.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 09/15/2007
Major refresh coming for C++ programming language.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/15/2007
Infragistics releases TestAdvantage 2007 Volume 2.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 09/15/2007
Microsoft unveils pair of Live ID SDKs.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 09/15/2007
Analyst cautions enterprise architects against Google Apps.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 09/15/2007
IDC study finds practical concerns driving XML-based doc formats.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 09/15/2007
BlackBerry plug-in can leverage Visual Studio.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2007
Research firm eyeballs what’s hot in dynamic languages.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/15/2007
Anticipated second beta of ADO.NET Entity Framework released.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2007
RIA platform vendor forms new partnership, aims at U.S. market.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2007
Microsoft this week released a key update to its SOA-based middleware platform—BizTalk.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Chris Kanaracus
- 09/14/2007
CollabNet has released the latest version of its open source application lifecycle management (ALM) solution, which features improvements in collaboration, tools integration and reporting capabilities.
Microsoft's update system is changing files on both Windows XP and Windows Vista -- even if a user disables automatic updates. Microsoft, however, calls it built-in behavior and no cause for alarm.
In its first major refresh in nearly two years, MySQL is set to release a new version of its flagship open source database accompanied by a bevy of new tools and beefed-up subscription-based services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/12/2007
Is Microsoft Office in danger of having real competition for the first time in a decade? That's the question being asked this week, as the battle for office productivity suites heats up on several fronts.
Microsoft will unveil three security enhancements as part of its upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) release, slated for early 2008.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/10/2007
By 2012, smart phones that use a scaled-down variant of the open source Linux operating system will account for roughly 31 percent of all smart devices in the marketplace, according to ABI Research. Linux smartphone technology will see its fastest growth, with annual growth rates as high as 75 percent, in the 2007 to 2012 period.