Darryl K. Taft

SAN FRANCISCO – With the release of Adobe’s Adobe Integrated Runtime, the company is highlighting several well-known enterprises that have opted to use the technology to deploy rich Internet applications. At its Adobe Engage event here Feb. 25, representatives from NASDAQ, AOL and the New York Times will be on hand to demonstrate how their […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Adobe Systems is advancing its platform for rich Internet applications with the release of Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex 3 software. Developers and designers use Adobe’s RIA technologies to rapidly create and deploy rich, branded content and applications, according to Adobe officials. The release of Adobe Integrated Runtime signals the next wave of Adobe […]

RESTON, Va. – Groovy is getting its groove on and is moving up the charts. At the 2G Groovy/Grails Experience conference here, Scott Davis, author of several books on Groovy, Java and editor in chief of aboutGroovy.com, said the Groovy language is moving fast up the charts of languages favored by developers. Groovy now ranks […]

Microsoft plans to arm students with the company’s developer and design tools for free to help them fulfill their creative goals now and to help seed the market for developers working on the Microsoft platform in the future. In a speech scheduled for Feb. 19 at Stanford University, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is expected to […]

Last week I did a story on Microsoft’s strategy to implement the model-view-controller architecture in its ASP.NET Web application development system and got immediate reaction from some folks in the know. Well, I should say I solicited reaction. Primarily because Microsoft is implementing MVC in its core Web application development platform, it brings to mind […]

Feb. 14 proved to be a lucky number for 14 Microsoft executives promoted to new positions in a company reorganization aiming to focus the company’s leadership around its expanding portfolio of products and technologies. Microsoft announced the management shuffle soon after disclosing the departure of several executives. In the Valentine’s Day reorganization, seven former corporate […]

Adobe Systems announced two new Flash-based mobile offerings at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Adobe Feb. 11 unveiled Adobe Flash Home, a new mobile application for rich, dynamic home screens, and Adobe Flash Cast 2 technology, the next-generation offline portal solution, to deliver high-impact user experiences and provide instant access to data services, the […]

Microsoft is implementing the model-view-controller architecture in its ASP.NET Web application development system. The software giant released an initial version of ASP.NET with MVC (model-view-controller) support in December and is working on delivering a more mature CTP (Community Technology Preview) release of the technology at its upcoming MIX 08 conference in March in Las Vegas. […]

NEW YORK-Internet pundit Henry Blodget called the proposed Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo a “disaster” in the making. At a meeting of the New York Software Industry Association on Feb. 11, Blodget panned Microsoft’s focus on Yahoo, saying that should the $44.6 billion deal go through, “it’s going to be a disaster.” Blodget, who is CEO, […]

Microsoft is delivering a slew of developer-centric news and technology at its Microsoft Office System Developer Conference; Office developer-centric, that is. The Microsoft’s Office developer conference in San Jose, Calif., officially kicks off Feb. 11 with a keynote address by the outgoing Microsoft chairman. There, Bill Gates will announce a series of new offerings, including […]

NEW YORK – Parasoft and WSO2 are offering increased support for service oriented architecture registries to enhance the governance of SOA environments. The companies announced their support at the Web Services/SOA on Wall Street conference here Feb. 11. Parasoft offers solutions and services for the software development lifecycle, or SDLC. At the show, the company […]

To many people, green computing means cutting back on data center power consumption and cooling costs. Equitrac has another view. Equitrac is addressing green IT by delivering solutions to help enterprises better manage their print and copying costs. Chris Wyszkowski, the vice president of professional sales and marketing for Equitrac, said the company’s network solution […]