Darryl K. Taft

With a new framework, Ruby on Rails now has improved support for internationalization. In a blog post entitled, “Myth #6: Rails only speaks English,” David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, explains the addition to the Rails platform that makes it easier for developers to create applications for languages other than English. “It […]

A recent Evans Data survey shows that adoption of the Spring Framework has grown substantially and continues to grow rapidly. According to the Evans Data study, which looked at organizations of all sizes, 73 percent of all organizations responded that they use Spring or plan to use Spring within two years; 47 percent responded that […]

Although Microsoft had been saying as late as the summer that it expected to release version 8 of Internet Explorer by the end of the year, it looks like we will have to wait until 2009 to see it. Indeed, according to published reports, Microsoft said IE8 would be available “later this year.” In a […]

Amazon.com bested Google in a survey as the company cloud watchers expect to play the largest role in the future of cloud computing. Appistry and “unconference” organization CloudCamp have announced findings from the first of a series of surveys the two organizations are conducting among CloudCamp participants. For the first Appistry/CloudCamp “Inside the Cloud” survey, […]

Adobe Maximizes the Flash Platform Adobe Maximizes the Flash Platformby Darryl Taft No Title Adobe Flash Catalyst (formerly code-named Thermo), a professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating application interfaces and interactive content without coding. No Title Flash Catalyst enables artwork created in Adobe Creative Suite 4 to be imported with full fidelity and quickly […]

At the RoboDevelopment Conference & Expo, Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008, the newest version of its RDS robotics programming platform. Tandy Trower, general manager of the Microsoft Robotics Group, discussed the Microsoft robotics platform with eWEEK at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in October, hinting at the pending release […]

SAN FRANCISCO — California First Lady Maria Shriver and Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch unveiled the California Legacy Trails, a new interactive feature of the California Museum Web site that brings the state’s history and culture to life online. The California Legacy Trails use Adobe Flash and other Adobe technologies to create engaging digital […]

Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, has announced the launch of Amazon CloudFront, a self-service, pay-as-you-go Web service for content delivery. Amazon.com, which first announced its plans to launch a content delivery service in September, has now, with the release of CloudFront, delivered a way for developers to distribute content through a worldwide network […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Adobe Systems, long the darling of consumer-oriented developers, is beefing up its presence in the enterprise with moves such as the extended collaboration the company announced with SAP to help enterprises build richer business applications. Indeed, at the Adobe MAX 2008 developer conference here, SAP officials said that in the latest enhancement to the […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Adobe, which has been working on Flash Player 10 for smart phones, demonstrated at its Adobe MAX 2008 conference here the technology running on a series of phones, including a Windows Mobile device. “The rate of Web browsing has grown significantly on phones, and we’re doing Flash Player 10 for smart phones,” said Adobe […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Adobe Systems announced Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5 and Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3.5 at its Adobe MAX 2008 user conference here. The two new versions of the company’s Flash-based technology represent two key components of the Adobe Flash Platform. The new servers include new media delivery options, such as: […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Adobe and ARM have announced a technology collaboration to optimize Adobe Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR for ARM powered devices, ranging from mobile phones to set-top boxes, mobile Internet devices, televisions, automotive platforms, personal media players and other mobile computing devices. At the Adobe MAX 2008 conference here, officials from both […]