Darryl K. Taft

There is but one Web and the issue of a mobile Web versus a desktop Web should be of no consequence. If Adobe has its way — given its Open Screen Project announcement of May 1 — that will be the case. The Open Screen Project is an Adobe-led effort to drive rich Internet experiences […]

Adobe Systems is launching a new project, leading with the Adobe Flash Player and the Adobe Integrated Runtime to push a consistent runtime environment across devices to make the user experience of shifting from desktop to device smoother. The Open Screen Project, announced May 1 by Adobe, is a broad industry effort to deliver a […]

As the maker of one of the largest applications using Ruby on Rails on the Web, Twitter knows a thing or two about scaling applications built with the popular development framework. Britt Selvitelle, a senior engineer at Twitter, offered a few tips and tricks for scaling Ruby on Rails and expressed particular appreciation for the […]

Although developers swear by the productivity gains afforded by using Ruby on Rails, the popular Web platform has met criticism as not being scalable enough for prime time. Well, some startups are focusing on ensuring that Ruby on Rails, also known simply as Rails, does indeed scale. Ruby on Rails, like the Ruby language it […]

Microsoft announced May 1 the release to manufacturing of Expression Studio 2, the latest version of the software giant’s suite of design tools aimed at professional designers and focused on the market dominated by Adobe Systems. Microsoft’s suite of professional design tools consists of Expression Web 2, Expression Blend 2, Expression Design 2, Expression Media […]

The competition between Microsoft and Adobe heated up some more recently when Microsoft scored a key hire from its competitor. Mark Hamburg, who had been chief architect of Adobe Photoshop and who launched the Adobe effort that became Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, resigned from Adobe after 17 years and is joining Microsoft. In a blog post […]

The OASIS open standards consortium is launching a project to optimize service-oriented architecture software for the telecommunications industry. The new effort will be known as the OASIS Telecommunications Services Member Section or OASIS Telecom. Founding members of the OASIS Telecom group, which will collaborate to optimize SOA for use in the telecommunications sector, include BEA […]

Black Duck Software is buying Koders, which provides an online search engine for open-source software. Black Duck announced its acquisition of Koders April 28. More than 30,000 developers come to Koders.com each day to search more than 766 million lines of code written in more than 30 languages and identified with 28 software licenses. Financial […]

SAN FRANCISCO-As the application development forecast continues to get more “cloudy,” Aptana will break out its own solution in a few weeks. The startup, which focuses on delivering infrastructure software for Web developers, plans to release Aptana Cloud, a platform-as-a-service offering for developers to build Web applications based on open-source technology. Click Here to Watch […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Adobe’s “Thermo” will heat up the rich Internet application battles, with the aim to better enable designers and developers to work together. At the Web 2.0 Expo here April 23, Steven Heintz, senior product manager for the new product under development at Adobe, demonstrated some of the product’s capabilities for the first time to […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Developers are not new to the world of collaboration and other so-called Web 2.0 activities, as generations have long had to “collaborate” to build systems. The Web 2.0 Expo held here April 22-25 was essentially a social networking love fest, with Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media and coiner of the term […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Microsoft formally introduced and demonstrated its new synchronization framework, Live Mesh, at the Web 2.0 Expo here April 23. In a brief keynote address, Amit Mital, Microsoft’s general manager of Live Mesh, gave a quick demonstration and played a video showing the Live Mesh technology at work, prompting applause from the crowd. “With Live […]