Darryl K. Taft

Sun Microsystems and the JRuby community have updated JRuby, a Java implementation of the Ruby interpreter, with the release of JRuby 1.1.6. Thomas Enebo, a software developer at Sun Microsystems and one of the core developers of JRuby, said JRuby 1.1.6 is the sixth point release of JRuby 1.1. The fixes in this latest release […]

Adobe and Intel announced plans on Jan. 5 to work together to extend the Flash platform to TVs and other devices. The two companies said they plan to work together to port and optimize Adobe’s Flash technology for the Intel Media Processor CE 3100. The goal is to provide consumers with richer and more seamless […]

What should be on a programmer’s resume? According to Joel Spolsky, founder of Fog Creek Software and author of the Joel on Software blog, there should be less fluff and more stuff. I guess I ought to apologize to my friend Jay Zimmerman, whose company puts on the popular “No Fluff Just Stuff” series of […]

1. Cloud development platforms bloom Google App Engine, Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon, Salesforce.com and others have entered into the cloud space in force. What must developers do to program to the cloud? 2. Microsoft gets serious about software modeling Microsoft releases its “Oslo” modeling strategy, joins the Object Modeling Group and pledges support for UML. […]

Top 10 Application Development Products for 2008 by Darryl Taft 1. Windows Azure Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie’s cloud computing platform vision comes to life as Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud operating environment. 2. Google App Engine Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering at Google, is leading the company’s developer efforts, including Google App Engine. […]

With 2008 being the year that cloud computing dominated the headlines in the IT arena, some pundits are saying that 2009 will be the year of the cloud for enterprises. I’ll get back to that in a bit, but first I want to give credit to my former colleague Peter Coffee, who gave a multifaceted […]

Perhaps the biggest issue facing developers in 2008, and certainly moving into 2009, is the cloud. How should developers gear up to take advantage of the cloud computing environment? Who’s doing what, and what trends do developers have to look out for? As one of his major predictions for 2008, Forrester analyst John Rymer said […]

With the economy in a recession, enterprises are increasingly looking for ways to cut costs without giving up functionality. And with that in mind, many companies are looking at open-source software as a way to possibly save money. Palamida, which makes software for analyzing open-source code, has released the results of a recent survey the […]

Red Hat has launched a new software maintenance service, Extended Update Support. Company officials said the new service offers customers extended service level support and cost savings by allowing them to standardize on one Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment for up to 18 months. That is up to three times the industry standard, company officials […]

Piria has updated its Rombla visual Web site builder with new capabilities just a month after its release. Piria announced the beta of its Rombla online “no programming” Web site builder at the Adobe Max conference in San Francisco held Nov. 16 to 18. Rombla enables designers to create fully editable Web sites using simple […]

Just a month after releasing the same technology for Windows and the Mac, Adobe Systems has announced the general availability of Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux operating systems. In an interview with eWEEK, Adrian Ludwig, group product manager for Adobe’s Platform Business Unit, said Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux supports Fedora Core 8, Ubuntu 7.10 […]

Microsoft says a release candidate version of its Internet Explorer 8 Web browser is imminent and developers ought to get ready for it. In an interview with eWEEK, Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer for Microsoft, said, “If I had a bumper sticker in mind for this it would say: ‘Developers, start your engines.’” […]