Darryl K. Taft

BALTIMORE—IBM is scheduled to preview new mainframe management software to help enterprise customers manage and secure transactions in service-oriented architectures at the Share User Event here on Aug. 15. In a keynote presentation at the user conference of IT professionals who use IBM technology and services, Al Zollar, general manager of IBMs Tivoli software division, […]

When Sun Microsystems began looking at what needed to be added to the Java platform, high on the list was support for dynamic languages, according to Graham Hamilton, a Sun vice president and fellow in the Sun platform team. Sun was interested not only in providing support for so-called dynamic or scripting languages—which enable developers […]

BALTIMORE, Md.—Service-oriented architecture helps enterprises become more flexible, grow faster and reduce costs, IBM says. At the SHARE User Event conference here, IBM officials laid out IBMs commitment to SOA and the companys strategy for helping customers migrate to SOA. SHARE is an organization of IT professionals that use IBM products and services. Kelvin Lawrence, […]

Tapping into the mass market appeal of its popular line of Express developer tools, Microsoft is taking its tool set for game developers to a broader set of developers with XNA Game Studio Express, based on the companys XNA Studio platform. And, like Microsofts Visual Studio Express is aiming to democratize application development by putting […]

Microsoft considered including its Visual Studio Express tools in the upcoming Vista release of the Windows operating system, but the software giant nixed the idea for a variety of reasons. In a blog post on Aug. 10, Dan Fernandez, lead product manager for Visual Studio Express, said that in looking for ways to make Visual […]

The Eclipse Foundation plans to deliver in September a maintenance release of the Eclipse platform, as well as an update to its 10-project coordinated release known as Callisto. According to organization members and the Eclipse.org Web site, on Sept. 29 the Eclipse Foundation is scheduled to deliver Eclipse 3.2.1, a maintenance release of the platform, […]

Extending its support for scripting and dynamic languages, Microsoft is hosting a project on its CodePlex site to deliver a PHP language compiler for the .Net Framework. Known as Phalanger, the project reached Version 2.0 Beta 2 on July 30. The primary goal of the project, released under Microsoft Shared Source Permissive License, is to […]

Yahoo has created a new resource for Python developers. The search company on Aug. 8 opened its Yahoo Developer Network – Python Developer Center. The Yahoo Python Developer Center is a Web site that provides Python developers with access to information to help them build applications in the Python object-oriented dynamic language. A description on […]

Microsoft is working on a phased approach to enhancing its support for dynamic languages on the companys .Net platform. Jim Hugunin, creator of the IronPython language and a development leader on Microsofts CLR (Common Language Runtime) team, told eWEEK that Microsoft is working to help usher in support for dynamic languages on top of the […]

Owing to its increasing popularity, the Ruby on Rails application development environment will be included in the release of Apple Computers upcoming server offering, code-named Leopard Server. Indeed, Leopard Server has support for Ruby on Rails, PHP and JSP (JavaServer Pages) accessible from a simple administrative interface, Apple officials said. /zimages/4/28571.gifCan Mac OS X Leopard […]

Microsoft is charting its future product course beyond “Orcas” in 2007. The next major release of the companys Visual Studio application development tool set is known by the code name Orcas, but Microsoft also is hard at work on a version of the tool set that will revise Visual Studio Team System, or VSTS, the […]

Borland Softwares Developer Tools Group is moving back to the companys roots and relaunching its Turbo brand of products—offering the tools both for beginners and nonprogrammers, as well as for professionals. Borland officials said the Cupertino, Calif., company is bringing back its Turbo brand of tools as a set of low-cost, language-specific rapid application development […]