Darryl K. Taft

An Evans Data survey released Dec. 2 showed that developers in the Asia Pacific market are embracing free developer programs more than ever. Evans Data’s Asia Pacific Development Survey shows that developer participation on developer programs has risen by almost 10 percent in 2009, with developers opting into free programs at a rate of more […]

Microsoft’s original Software Factory worker has a new position and is taking his expertise to the cloud. Jack Greenfield, who came to Microsoft from what is now IBM’s Rational software division, introduced the concept of Software Factories to Microsoft. Now Greenfield has joined Microsoft’s Cloud Services Team. In a Dec. 3 blog post about his […]

Is the Eclipse Foundation a true open-source community or simply a trade association? That’s the issue a former Eclipse Foundation bigwig raised recently before being slapped down by Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich. In a post titled, “It’s a Trade Association,” Bjorn Freeman-Benson, former Eclipse Foundation committer community director and mainstay at industry events […]

AVIcode, a provider of real-time .NET application monitoring solutions, has announced Version 5.6 of its Intercept uX technology, a client-side monitoring tool designed to automatically detect application problems from the end user’s perspective. The new release is aimed at providing detailed insight into the end-user experience with applications. Intercept uX 5.6 offers major new features […]

Intel announced Dec. 2 that has launched a beta version of its Intel Atom Developer Program Software Development Kit for the Microsoft Windows and Linux-based Moblin operating systems. The SDK helps developers create and submit applications for Intel-based netbooks to sell in application stores that will open in 2010, and, “Developers can download the kit […]

Hoover’s, a business information services provider, on Dec. 2 announced the availability of an upgraded version of its API for developers, Hoover’s API 3.0. Hoover’s API enables customers to access the Hoover’s and Dun & Bradstreet databases “to stream on-demand data into enterprisewide systems–including CRM systems, corporate intranets and Web forms–through custom integrations and through […]

Nokia on Dec. 1 released Qt 4.6, “the latest version of the company’s cross-platform application and UI framework” for building applications for Symbian OS-based smartphones, Nokia’s Maemo and other platforms. In addition to “new platform support,” Qt 4.6 features “new graphical capabilities and support for multitouch and gestures,” Nokia said. The news release continued: ““Qt […]

Microsoft has announced support for Ruby on Rails running on the Windows Azure cloud platform. At its Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft played up Windows Azure’s capacity to support a variety of different languages and development frameworks. The company also touted its increasing support for open-source technologies running on or integrating with Microsoft platform technology. Now […]

Google has announced the winners of the Android Developer Challenge (ADC) 2, including overall winners that consist of an application to help smartphone users sleep better, an online multiplayer game and a mobile security solution. In a blog post, Eric Chu of the Android Mobile Platform team said Google launched the ADC 2 competition back […]

Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft AJAX Content Delivery Network (CDN) service now has Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) support. In a blog post, Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s .NET Developer Platform, said the Microsoft AJAX CDN now provides SSL support for scripts served off of the CDN. “This is necessary for scenarios where […]

The Ruby on Rails community has announced Rails 2.3.5, a new release of the Ruby on Rails Web development framework that features improved support for Ruby 1.9 and more. In a Nov. 30 blog post, Gregg Pollack, a Rails developer and member of the Rails Activism team, said Rails 2.3.5 provides several bug fixes and […]

Top 10 Microsoft Programming Languages Microsoft has widened its net beyond .NET in its stable of programming languages, including .NET cross-platform support and its own JavaScript flavor. Explore Microsoft’s top programming languages now. C++ C++ is the workhorse language at Microsoft, which uses C++ to build many of its core applications. C++ is a statically […]