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LinkedIn Nov. 23 followed through on its plans to launch a development platform, opening Developer.linkedin.com to let softwareprogrammers put LinkedIn's profile content into their business applications and Web sites. Microsoft is using LinkedIn to add profile information to Microsoft Office 2010 e-mail users with the Outlook Social Connector. Twitter application TweetDeck will support the LinkedIn platform in its next version, allowing TweetDeck users to access their LinkedIn network updates from within TweetDeck, which will add a LinkedIn column.
10 Things Missing from Google Chrome OS
News Analysis: Google's Chrome OS might not be the most viable operating system for every user, but it's certainly capturing significant attention. It has several neat features. But Chrome OS is also missing some important elements that it should have if it is going to win acceptance beyond the niche market of netbook users willing to rely on the Web for most of their computing needs.
Oracle, SpringSource Launch OSGi-Based Eclipse Project
Oracle and SpringSource team up to propose a new Eclipse project called Enterprise Modules and code-named Project Gemini, to provide a home for subprojects that integrate existing Java enterprise technologies into module-based platforms.
Adobe Updates Acrobat.com, Releases Flash 10.1, AIR 2.0 Betas
Adobe Systems updates Acrobat.com in ways designed to make working together across organizations even easier than before, including mobile access. The company also recently announced beta availability of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0.
LABS GALLERY: Eclipse Plug-in Taps into Force.com
With the help of a fully featured plug-in, developers can create Force.com software from within Eclipse. eWEEK Labs takes the plug-in for a spin.
Google Releases Chrome OS to Open Source
Google released the Chrome Operating System, an alternative to Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X, to open source for developers, but said end users will not be able to use the Web operating system until late 2010. During a demo, Google's Sundar Pichai showed how Chrome OS booted up on an Asus Eee PC netbook in 7 seconds, with 3 more seconds to log onto an application. Chrome OS had the look and feel of the Chrome Web browser, which has 40 million regular users. Chrome OS was designed with speed, simplicity and security in mind.
SugarCRM Brings CRM Play to Windows Azure
SugarCRM has announced that it will offer its CRM applications on the Windows Azure to enable its customers and value-added resellers (VARs) to benefit from the real-time scalability, high availability and on-demand infrastructure of the Microsoft cloud platform for Web applications and services.
Microsoft Delivers Surface Workstation SDK
Microsoft has seen significant momentum in the adoption of its Surface computer system and software over the past year. In addition, the company released a software development kit for developers to use on their PCs to simulate the Surface environment.
Microsoft`s Parallel Push Takes Another Step Forward
Microsoft is working to deliver parallel programming capabilities to the masses, in the way that perhaps only the software giant can. The company is pursuing data parallelism, a form of parallelization of computing across multiple processors in parallel computing environments.
Microsoft Launches Silverlight 4 Beta, Shares IE9 Tidbits
Microsoft shared a few details of what users can expect in Internet Explorer 9, which is only three weeks into development. The company also announced the launch of a beta release of Silverlight 4.
Microsoft Plans to Open C#, Visual Basic Compilers
While competitors are coming up with new, & modern& programming languages, Microsoft continues to evolve its tried and true languages such as Visual Basic and C#, with new features -- including future plans to open up the respective compilers to developers and to add support for asynchronous programming and immutability.
Eight 'Big Brains' to Watch at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference
Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is the company's showcase for new technology for the software developer community. This year, Microsoft is launching a series of talks by its technical leaders, including Microsoft technical fellows and distinguished engineers. Microsoft has dubbed this series the & Big Brains& series, borrowed from another series involving these technical luminaries. Microsoft officials said these are the innovators who develop and drive technical strategies for Microsoft and the industry. The company is inviting attendees at PDC to & participate in a perfect storm of brilliance, insight, experience and vision as we bring together Microsoft's Technical Fellows for the Technical Leaders series of sessions at PDC09.& This slide show presents eight of Microsoft's technical leaders and what they will be talking about at PDC in Los Angeles Nov. 17-19.
Microsoft Launches, Open-Sources .NET Micro Framework 4.0
At its Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announces the release of Version 4.0 of the .NET Micro Framework and says it is open-sourcing the technology and making it available under the Apache 2.0 license.
12 Things to Know About Google's Go Programming Language
Google's new programming language, called Go, took the application development world by storm when the search giant released it Nov. 10. The ambitious technology's pedigree features programming experts from the Unix world, including Ken Thompson, who teamed with Dennis Ritchie to create Unix. Created as a systems programming language to help speed up development of systems inside Google, Go is now viewed as a general-purpose language for Web development, mobile development, addressing parallelism and a lot more.
Bernie Madoff's Programmers Arrested
Jerome O’Hara and George Perez allegedly developed and maintained computer programs that generated numerous false and fraudulent books and records that were part of Bernie Madoff's elaborate Ponzi scheme.
Microsoft Defends 'Oslo' Move to SQL Server
Since announcing its plans to fold its modeling technology, up to now known by the code name Oslo, into its SQL Server platform, Microsoft has been taking flak from developers complaining of a letdown by the software giant regarding the future of its modeling strategy. In response, Microsoft defends its plans and says the modeling strategy is intact.
How to Use Governance to Reduce Software Coding Errors
The cost of fixing computing errors discovered in run time has been estimated to be 20 times higher than the initial software development investment. While malfunctions and glitches have many causes, establishing best practices and policies to follow as the code is being developed can have a significant impact on the quality of the final software product. Here, Knowledge Center contributor John Favazza discusses ways organizations can use governance to improve the quality of their software code.
Survey: Python Use Up 45%
Evans Data has announced that use of the Python programming language has increased by 45 percent since the spring of 2008.
Google Launches New Programming Language: Go
Google introduces a new programming language, known as Go, that is aimed at being fast, productive and fun for developers to use.
Microsoft's 'Oslo' Becomes SQL Server Modeling
Microsoft has found a home for its & Oslo& modeling technology – in the SQL Server database family.