Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft announced that it has opened up its Bing search engine as a development platform and has delivered a new Bing Developer Center to enable developers to access Bing services for use in building more aware applications. During a keynote at Build 2013, Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president of the Online Services Division, outlined […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft kicked off Day Two of its Build 2013 conference here with a series of developer-centric updates to its Windows Azure cloud computing platform. Windows Azure spans infrastructure and platform capabilities to provide them with a comprehensive set of services to easily and quickly build modern applications, using the tools and languages familiar to […]

Microsoft Visual Studio 2O13 Taps Into Opportunities for Developers by Darryl K. Taft Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Preview Released On June 26, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2013 Preview, the company’s integrated solution for building modern apps across devices and services. With a wide range of new features, Visual Studio 2013 makes it easier and faster […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft has added a slew of new features and improvements to the latest version of its flagship developer toolset, Visual Studio 2013, which ships in preview today. Announcing the availability of the first build preview of the upgraded integrated development environment (IDE) here at the company’s Build 2013 conference, S. Somasegar, corporate vice president […]

As Microsoft prepares to host its third Build developer conference, the company is making a move to come to the home of the enemy: the San Francisco Bay area. The Bay Area and Silicon Valley are home to a host of born-on-the-Web startups and companies that are steeped in open-source technologies and are one with […]

IBM System i: Celebrating 25 Years of Innovation by Darryl K. Taft 25 Years of System i IBM i’s rich heritage dates back to June 21, 1988, when IBM debuted the new Application System/400 family of computer systems. Running OS/400, the original predecessor to the IBM i operating system, the six new AS/400 models were […]

COBOL: 10 Reasons the Old Language Is Still Kicking by Darryl K. Taft COBOL Is Easy Learning COBOL isn’t like learning a completely new language: It’s English. It consists of English-like structural components such as verbs, clauses and sentences. COBOL Runs Everywhere COBOL has been ported to virtually every hardware platform. Here Today, Here Tomorrow […]

IBM researcher Dr. Robert Heath Dennard has won one of Japan’s most coveted awards for his accomplishments in electronics. Dennard, an IBM Fellow, was named a Kyoto Prize laureate on June 21, winning the Advanced Technology Prize in the field of electronics. The Kyoto Prize is an international award bestowed by The Inamori Foundation to […]

Apigee, a provider of API technology and services for enterprises and developers, has announced new functionality in its leading API platform that automatically converts Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Web services to Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs in a matter of minutes. The Palo Alto, Calif., company’s new Apigee SOAP-to-REST Wizard makes it easier for […]

New Relic, a provider of software analytics solutions, has announced a new application performance monitoring, or APM, software-as-a-service platform. The new New Relic offers more than 50 plug-ins, including plug-ins for services Amazon Web Services (AWS), MySQL and Rackspace Hosting. And New Relic users can discover or easily build plug-ins to customize the monitoring of […]