Darryl K. Taft

Telerik has announced the Kendo UI framework, a new development tool for HTML5 and JavaScript developers. Telerik, which makes tools for .NET developers, said its new framework is targeted at professional software developers, and delivers everything needed for front-end development with JavaScript and HTML5. “Building applications and sites today with HTML5 and JavaScript is an […]

JetBrains, a maker of productivity-enhancing tools for software developers, has announced the release of a new version of its integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP, PhpStorm 3.0. Calling the tool a code-centric PHP IDE, JetBrains delivers new functionality to help developers keep their code clean and well-structured. PhpStorm 3.0 features support for the Unified Modeling […]

IBM’s chief scientist for software engineering research has launched a new project to bring computing into the lives and living rooms of people all over the world. Remember Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series, which unlocked the secrets of the universe for mere mortals? Well, this project, known as “Computing: The Human Experience,” is aimed at doing […]

IBM said Cyber Monday 2011 was a big hit, driven largely by mobile devices. The U.S. online retail sector delivered strong growth on Cyber Monday 2011 compared with the same period last year, according to cloud-based analytics findings by IBM. IBM’s findings expand on the company’s earlier report that Thanksgiving Day 2011 saw a record […]

BigQuery Google has updated its BigQuery analytics engine with new features that include a new graphical user interface and new APIs. Google Maps API: Drawing Library Maps API applications can now offer users a tactile interactivity using the new Drawing Library. The Drawing Library provides a toolbox that enables users to draw markers, lines and […]

ARM has released a new tool for Android application developers, the ARM Development Studio 5 Community Edition, a free version of its reference software development toolkit. This new edition of ARM Development Studio helps the Android application developer community create native software for compute-intensive tasks that can run up to four times faster than Java […]

Node.js continues to catch on with developers and vendors alike, as recently both Microsoft and Engine Yard announced support for the platform. In a recent blog post, Dr. Nic Williams, vice president of engineering at Engine Yard, said the company has added support for Node.js to its existing support for Ruby on Rails and PHP […]

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider Heroku has announced that its Heroku Postgres is available as a stand-alone service. The move puts PostgreSQL in the hands of developers who do not host their projects on the Heroku platform. Up until now the service was available only to Heroku customers for use with Heroku platform apps, said Matthew Soldo, […]

VMware has announced Caldecott, a new Ruby application that lets developers migrate their application’s data between different Cloud Foundry clouds. The new technology, now available as a preview release, enables developers to use familiar client applications to directly analyze, manipulate or port the data contained in data services that are bound to your Cloud Foundry […]

The Big Data Analytics Opportunity Every day people create the equivalent of 2.5 quintillion bytes of data from sensors, mobile devices, online transactions and social networks. Given all that information, there is a need for Big Data management solutions. According to an IBM survey, 83 percent of CIOs see business intelligence and analytics as top […]

Google has introduced or updated a series of tools to help developers, including an extension of its Swiffy Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool. Google launched Swiffy in July 2011 and it enables developers to convert Flash SWF files to HTML5. In a recent blog post, Esteban de la Canal, a software engineer on the Swiffy team at […]

Google has updated its BigQuery analytics engine with new features including a new graphical user interface, new APIs and more. Google introduced BigQuery at its 2010 Google I/O developer conference to enable users to do large-scale internal data analytics. At Google I/O 2010, Google launched a preview of the service to a limited number of […]