Darryl K. Taft

IBM announced that it is opening up its Watson cognitive computing technology to developers by providing access to Watson via a development platform in the cloud. Watson, which is perhaps most famous for trouncing human competitors on the Jeopardy! game show, represents the first wave of a new era of cognitive computing that IBM hopes […]

Microsoft Showcases Visual Studio Online, Visual Studio 2013, Monaco by Darryl K. Taft Visual Studio Online With Visual Studio Online, Microsoft is extending the Visual Studio IDE with a collection of developer services, hosted in Windows Azure, which offers an integrated end-to-end development experience for modern applications. Work Item Charting Work Item Charting in Visual […]

NEW YORK—Microsoft pulled off a bit of a software development coup in delivering Visual Studio Online, a set of development services and offerings running on Windows Azure that helps development teams create next-generation applications. The company that was built on the premise that capturing developer mindshare is key to capturing markets proved once again that […]

NEW YORK—Responding to an ever-growing need for enhanced development capabilities, Microsoft officially launched Visual Studio 2013 (VS2013) and .NET 4.5.1, along with a potent new set of software development services known as Visual Studio Online and an innovative new lightweight coding environment in the browser known simply by the code name “Monaco.” Microsoft announced all […]

CloudBees, which provides a continuous delivery Platform as a Service (PaaS), recently announced integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Beanstalk. This move allows developers to use CloudBees to accelerate the development process, and then deploy applications onto AWS Elastic Beanstalk. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a PaaS that enables users to create applications and push […]

Microsoft recently unified Windows and Windows Phone app development, with a unified registration experience for both Windows Store and Windows Phone developers. According to Microsoft, Windows developers are now also Windows Phone developers–and vice versa. The consolidation will reduce developer registration costs and management complexity. This aligns with Microsoft’s ongoing strategy of making it easier […]

IBM announced that its researchers have been instrumental in the creation of a new drug delivery mechanism to fight breast cancer. Scientists from IBM and Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) published a breakthrough drug-delivery technique, demonstrating the first biodegradable, biocompatible and non-toxic hydrogel that can deliver treatment more efficiently to people fighting breast […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) released a new AWS SDK for JavaScript that enables developers to build rich, browser-based applications that make direct calls to AWS services without the need for any server-side code. In a blog post, Jeff Barr, chief evangelist at AWS, said the SDK supports access to a variety of AWS services, including […]

HP Digital Marketing Hub Helps Customers Harness Big Data By Darryl K. Taft Managing the Volume and Velocity of Incoming Big Data Information pours into an organization at a furious pace; the volume and velocity is overwhelming. In today’s connected, digital and mobile landscape, there is no slowing down the creation of this data. Every […]

The Ruby scripting language has drawn its share of both proponents and critics. However, Coupa Software, a spend management company that offers a cloud-based suite of financial applications, has standardized on Ruby as its development language of choice. In an interview with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft, David Williams, vice president of technology at […]