Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft has been gradually and consistently evolving its Windows Azure cloud platform to differentiate it from other competing offerings. At the Microsoft TechEd 2013 conference, the software giant gets to show off some of the new ways Microsoft is positioning Windows Azure and making developers offers they might find very hard to refuse. Some of […]

Microsoft is announcing major new versions of its flagship application development environment and application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions—preview versions of Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2013—at its TechEd 2013 conference in New Orleans on June 3. The software giant is announcing key new functionality in both environments and will be introducing some […]

Several prominent computer scientists have joined Google in its battle to thwart Oracle’s appeal of a federal judge’s ruling that the Java APIs Google used to create Android are not copyrightable. In an amicus brief filed with the court May 30, a group of 32 computer scientists urged an appeals court today to block the […]

The emergence of HTML5, JavaScript and CSS—core Web development technologies—has taken the industry by storm, with major players moving to make the technologies part of their primary tool chains. Microsoft, for example, has made HTML5 and JavaScript key to application development on Windows 8 and the Internet Explorer (IE) browser. Even more significantly, it has […]

Hadoop, Java Combo Top of Mind for Hiring Managers by Darryl K. Taft Java Takes the Lead Java is the leading skill hiring managers look for in combination with Hadoop, according to Dice’s Open Web. Java remains immensely popular and is the second most popular language in the TIOBE Programming Community Index for May 2013. […]

When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg complained about the use of HTML5 for its mobile app, HTML5 tools provider Sencha took offense and set out to prove HTML5’s mettle. In December 2012, Sencha engineers Jamie Avins and Jacky Nguyen posted a description of a Facebook mobile app they built with HTML5. That post, entitled “The Making […]

INETCO Systems, a provider of network-based application performance monitoring (APM) software, announced its latest APM release, INETCO Insight 5.3. The new release makes it easier and faster for IT operations teams to isolate enterprise service issues in service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications deployed within private, public and hybrid cloud environments. Version 5.3 is now available for […]

Equinix’s Newest D.C. Data Center: A Walk-Through by Darryl K. Taft Equinix DC11 Expands Largest Data Center Campus DC11, a new state-of-the-art Equinix data center in the Washington, D.C., metro area, expands the largest Internet exchange in North America and the largest Equinix campus in the world. Equinix Data Center Expansion to Continue DC11 is […]

Adobe announced that it has acquired privately held Ideacodes, a creative consultancy, based in San Francisco. Terms of Adobe’s deal to acquire Ideacodes, which specializes in the design and user experience of smart applications, digital products and networked communities, were not disclosed. “For the last nine years we’ve worked to re-envision the design of digital […]

Equinix, a global interconnection and data center company, announced the opening of its new Washington, D.C., data center known as DC11 at a major ceremony earlier this month. The new data center at the Equinix campus in Ashburn, Va., adds to existing data center property on the site and makes the Ashburn campus the largest […]

Syncsort, a provider of big data integration and protection solutions, recently announced the availability of its Spring ’13 release, including two brand-new Hadoop products and enhancements to its DMX technology that turn Hadoop into an easy-to-use extract, transform and load (ETL) solution. Big data is prompting organizations to look at Hadoop to process more data […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—IBM and Perficient, a technology consulting firm, have teamed to work with The Men’s Wearhouse to help it better engage customers and improve productivity through a Smarter Commerce approach that puts the clients’ customers at the center of their operations. Perficient joined IBM in sharing some of its best practices at the IBM Smarter […]