Darryl K. Taft

Xamarin, a maker of cross-platform mobile application development tools, has announced its support for iOS 6 app development. The new Xamarin release, MonoTouch 6, gives developers full access to all the native APIs associated with iOS 6’s new features, while it also allows for cross-platform code sharing between iOS, Android and Windows Phone. With MonoTouch […]

The Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS), Single Edition is now available as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud membership, the company announced. Adobe recently announced that it would continue to deliver value to its Adobe Creative Cloud offering, and this move shows the company is on track with that pledge. Adobe DPS Single Edition simplifies […]

The OpenStack community has announced the formal launch of the new OpenStack Foundation to continue to promote the development and adoption of the open-source OpenStack cloud software. As the independent home for OpenStack, the foundation has already attracted more than 5,600 individual members, secured more than $10 million in funding and is ready to fulfill […]

Salesforce.com’s Heroku platform as a service (PaaS) unit has announced Heroku Enterprise for Java, a new service for IT organizations to build and run Java applications in the cloud. With Heroku Enterprise for Java, enterprises can create and deploy enterprise Java applications in minutes instead of months, as well as move their apps to a […]

Microsoft and PreEmptive Solutions announced that PreEmptive Analytics and Dotfuscator CE will be included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 to provide exception analytics for developers using the Microsoft flagship developer toolset. Dotfuscator CE, which has been included with every version of Visual Studio since Visual Studio 2003, prevents the reverse […]

Google has announced the release of J2ObjC, an open-source command-line tool that translates Java code to Objective-C for the iOS platform so that Java developers can more easily build apps for the iPhone and iPad. The goal of the J2ObjC tool is to enable developers to write an application’s non-UI code-such as data access or […]

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 With Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft will continually deliver value by adding new capabilities year-round. These update releases will be aligned with core software development trends in the market, ensuring developers always have access to the best solution for building modern applications, company officials said. VS2012 Update 1 will offer new […]

DevExpress, a maker of software development tools, has announced the next release in its DXv2 generation of software development tools, DXtreme Enterprise, a suite of tools for developers to create multiscreen applications across platforms and devices, including Windows 8 devices. The new DevExpress DXtreme toolset is available in limited preview now and will be generally […]

When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company’s biggest mistake was using HTML5 for mobile development it sent a wave across the development landscape, re-igniting the conversation over whether to go native or HTML5, Web-standards based when building mobile apps. At the TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 conference, Zuckerberg said Facebook’s biggest strategic mistake was in adopting […]

IBM announced that its scientists have been able to differentiate the chemical bonds in individual molecules for the first time using a technique known as noncontact atomic force microscopy (AFM). According to Big Blue, the results push the exploration of using molecules and atoms at the smallest scale and could be important for studying graphene […]

Telerik, a provider of development tools and controls, has announced the availability of its Windows 8 UI Controls Release Candidate (RC), which enables developers to more easily build apps for the Windows Store. As part of the RC, Telerik is also releasing two new controls, Pagination and HubTile, for both HTML and XAML environments. The […]

Tablet Emulator for Windows Store Apps Visual Studio 2012 provides a tablet emulator in which developers can run and test their Windows Store apps. Unit Testing Unit testing is a key component of the development acceleration and quality enablement features offered by Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012. Team Web Access Visual Studio […]