Darryl K. Taft

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-IBM is offering its Jazz collaborative development environment to universities to teach the next generation of developers how to work in a global software development environment. IBM made its announcement March 17 at the EclipseCon conference here. Jazz is an IBM Rational project to build a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for integrating […]

Google is releasing a new source-code browsing tool. In a blog post March 15, Jason Robbins, a member of the Google Open Source Team, said the company launched the tool as part of Google Code’s project hosting feature. “This new tool makes it easy to navigate through a project’s Subversion repository. Key features include: fast […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Not to be outdone by the confab for Eclipse developers at EclipseCon here, Sun Microsystems is announcing the beta of its NetBeans 6.1 integrated development environment. While the Eclipse Foundation is holding its annual conference opening March 17 across town, Sun officials are announcing the availability of NetBeans 6.1, which delivers a set […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – SpringSource, the company behind the Spring Framework, is rolling out the SpringSource Tool Suite. SpringSource is announcing the release of its toolset at the EclipseCon conference here March 17. Christian Dupuis, co-lead of the Spring IDE project, said the new Spring-specific developer toolset reduces the complexity of enterprise Java application development […]

With security risks increasing with Web 2.0 technologies such as mashups, IBM is rolling out a new technology known as SMash, short for “secure mashup.” IBM announced SMash March 13 and contributed the technology to the OpenAjax Alliance. Mashups pull information from multiple sources, such as Web sites, enterprise databases or e-mails, to create a […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The Eclipse Foundation is announcing a runtime initiative based on Equinox, the organization’s implementation of the Open Services Gateway Initiative technology. In an interview with eWEEK, Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said the group is “announcing a runtime initiative by taking a number of projects and starting a […]

Experts agree that although absolute application security is nearly impossible, there are key steps you should take to mitigate risk. Step 1: Define the process The first step is to define the process you’re going to use to develop and measure the security of your software. Software development has many phases, from requirements gathering through […]

Zend Technologies will on March 17 deliver version 1.5 of Zend Framework, its open-source PHP development framework. Andi Gutmans, Zend’s co-founder and chief technology officer, said Zend Framework 1.5 comes only nine months after the company delivered version 1.0 of the technology. Zend Framework is an open source project that facilitates the creation of PHP […]

The leader of the Adobe business unit that handles the Flash player has departed the company to join a venture capital firm. John Brennan, former senior vice president responsible for Adobe’s Platform Software business unit, left the company to join Silver Lake Sumeru as a managing director, Silver Lake’s middle-market investment group said on March […]

MonoDevelop 1.0, a Novell development tool and part of the company’s project to deliver an open-source platform compatible with Microsoft’s .Net Framework, is now available, the company announced March 12. MonoDevelop enables developers to more easily create Mono applications. It supports Microsoft Visual Studio project formats along with C# and other programming languages, and the […]

The parallel computing concept Microsoft’s Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer, calls the next great shift in technology is Microsoft’s development focus on more fronts than one. Microsoft is addressing parallel computing from the operating system level, to its core developer platform to language support. At the platform level, Microsoft released the first public […]

NEW YORK – Microsoft has released a new Financial Services Office Business Applications Component Library. At the sixth annual Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference, here, Microsoft released its new OBA (Office Business Applications) component library to help financial services organizations build applications on the 2007 Microsoft Office System. Microsoft’s last major update of its OBA […]