Darryl K. Taft

Recent natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the Asian tsunami have forced insurance companies to respond quickly to clients needs. To aid in this effort, IBM has moved to help communication and processing by donating programming code and intellectual property to the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development, the insurance industrys computing standards […]

IBM is losing a leader in the area of aspect-oriented programming to an open-source startup. Adrian Colyer, a senior member of the technical staff at IBMs Hursley, England, facility, said he resigned his position with the systems giant to join London-based Interface21, a startup focusing on the open-source Spring Framework for building Java applications. Colyer […]

Microsofts upcoming Windows Vista operating system will deliver a series of enhancements that developers can tap to build more reliable systems, the company said. At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, the software giant will highlight some of the benefits for developers, the company said. For instance, the WinFX SDK (software […]

LOS ANGELES—Microsoft Corp. will be handing out software at its Professional Developers Conference here this week, including a beta of its upcoming tool for building AJAX applications, the company said. Microsoft will hand out at least six DVDs amounting to 30GB of code to each developer in attendance at the PDC, said Charles Fitzgerald, general […]

Iona Technologies Monday announced its membership in the Eclipse Foundation as a strategic developer and member of the organizations board. The Waltham, Mass., company also announced its submission of the top-level Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Tooling Project (STP) within Eclipse, and its submission of its Eclipse-based Artix tooling as a baseline for the project. Carl Trieloff, […]

Digipede Technologies LLC next week will deliver a new SDK for its Windows-based grid computing environment. Oakland, Calif.-based DigipedeTechnologies LLC is expected to announce the Digipede Framework Software Development Kit for the Digipede Network at the Microsoft PDC next week in Los Angeles, the company said. John Powers, chief executive of Digipede, said the Digipede […]

As the battle for supremacy in the integrated development environment space more and more becomes a fight between just two camps, Microsoft Corp. better watch out, said one of the leaders from the competing camp. Eclipse is poised to overcome the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment as the premier environment for application development, claims Mike […]

Microsoft Corp. is bringing the power of its .Net technology to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort, delivering a system to help locate people displaced or missing since the hurricane. A group of Microsoft technologists quickly deployed to contribute their time and talent to the relief effort, and decided to develop a Web site and supporting […]

IBM is losing a leader in the area of aspect-oriented programming to an open-source startup. Adrian Colyer, a senior member of the technical staff at IBMs Hursley, England facility, said he resigned his position with the systems giant to join London-based Interface21, a startup focusing on the open-source Spring framework for building Java applications. Colyer […]

Infragistics Inc., a maker of reusable presentation-layer development tools, plans to ship a new version of its presentation-layer tool set, NetAdvantage 2005, 45 days after Microsoft Corp. releases Visual Studio 2005 on Nov. 7, Infragistics officials said. The new NetAdvantage 2005 tool set is compiled natively against Microsofts .Net Framework 2.0 and contains other features […]

Borland Software Corp. this week is expected to announce the release of the latest version of its Java integrated development environment, which will allow developers to collaborate more effectively. Rob Cheng, director of developer solutions at Borland, said JBuilder 2006 features new capabilities such as peer-to-peer developer collaboration and integrated application life-cycle support for requirements […]

Microsoft Corp.s professional Developers Conference is expected to be a coming-out party of sorts for the next version of Visual Studio, code-named Orcas. Primary among Visual Studios new features and new direction will be advances in how the tool set handles data, sources said. Data becomes “cool” in Orcas, said a source familiar with Microsofts […]