Development Environment
235 Stories
Checker eases app programming flow
News Managing software development process allows one Singapore software vendor to diversify offerings and keep customers coming back, says founder.
Tags: Software engineering/development, IBM Corp., Programmer, Singapore, Software Update, development environment, Programming, IDE, Vertical industries, application development
Sun: OpenOffice still a 'great international effort'
News Development projects are underway to improve performance issues in the open source project, which remains a strong focus within the community, says exec.
Tags: Open source, Office suites, Software engineering/development, OpenOffice, OpenOffice.org, Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Contributions, e-mail, performance
Eclipse gets Crystal Reports support
Techguide Business intelligence software specialist Business Objects will preview a version of its Crystal Reports software for the open source Eclipse development environment soon.
Tags: Software, Protocols and platforms, Java, Business applications, Open source
Adobe begins public testing of ColdFusion 9
News Beta versions of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder have been released, promising better integration with Microsoft Office and Adobe's Flash platform.
Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., Allaire ColdFusion, development environment, Software, Environment, Server, monitoring, IDE, Microsoft Office
Adobe offers Flash Catalyst for testing
News Programmers can now get their hands on a beta for the new design and development tool, as well as Flash Builder, the IDE successor to Flex Builder.
Tags: Software, Development/design, Business applications, E-business, Adobe Systems Inc., Tool, Adobe PhotoShop, Cisco Catalyst, development environment, Software
Employ refactoring to write better code
Techguide Discover Visual Studio add-ins that bring refactoring--the practice of making code cleaner and clearer without affecting the functionality--to the Visual Basic community.
Tags: Software, Microsoft Corp., Feature, Code, Developer, Extreme Programming, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, development environment, Visual Studio IDE, Refactoring
Using IntelliSense in SQL Server 2008
Techguide Microsoft has finally released a SQL Server product that includes IntelliSense for writing TSQL statements. In this article, Tim Chapman shows the ins and outs of using IntelliSense in SQL Server 2008.
Tags: Database management, Servers, Microsoft SQL Server, Database, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, SQL, stored procedure, Microsoft SQL Server Transact-SQL, development environment, text editor
Adobe takes LiveCycle tools to Amazon's cloud
News The software maker taps Amazon's EC2 and S3 service for a sandbox environment that lets enterprise developers build and test using LiveCycle without installing it.
Tags: Content management, Web servers, Open source, Adobe LiveCycle, Tool, Web service, data capture, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com Inc., Process Management
Reuze simplifies move from mainframe to Windows
News New Micro Focus tool promises to help companies move their Cobol-based business processes to Windows without having to rewrite applications.
Tags: Business applications, Mainframe, New Orleans, Tool, COBOL, Environment, Server, 64-bit, Microsoft Windows
Building an iPhone application
Blogs The iPhone has a terrific touchscreen and great features like 3.5G mobile broadband and GPS, making the iPhone highly su...
Wind River launches embedded hypervisor
News Wind River Hypervisor for embedded systems promises to let multiple operating systems run side by side on a single or multicore chip.
Tags: Virtualization, Intel Corp., Hypervisor, operating system, Wind River Systems Inc., device manufacturer, processor, Virtualization, car, multi-core processor
Why 2008 was another great year in Web technology
Techguide Journey back on Web development software updates and new products in 2008, with an eye toward 2009. Revisit service-oriented architecture, mobile development, Silverlight, Python and more.
Tags: Web services, Web browsers, Protocols and platforms, Twitter, Microsoft Corp., SOA, Web Browser, Google Inc., Social Media, Tool
Hands on with Mono 2.2
Techguide If you are writing an application designed to work on many platforms, Mono is still an alternative but it may not be a simple matter of "recompile and deploy" in many cases.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Authoring, Microsoft Corp., C, system tray, C#, Authoring, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio, Mono
Microsoft embraces open source with jQuery
Techguide Microsoft plans to integrate the JQuery library into both the ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET Model View Controller frameworks. Tony Patton outlines how jQuery may work within an ASP.NET application.
Tags: Software engineering/development, .NET, Open source, Java, Microsoft Corp., Library, Plug-in, Animation, CSS, Plugin Architecture
Why Chrome OS? Google says, why not?
News Google says it is building Chrome OS because it wants to improve the experience of using a computer. Of course, getting more people to spend their lives online and searching can't hurt.
Tags: Linux desktop OS, Notebooks and tablets, Linux server OS, Personal Computers, Web services, Web browsers, Palm Inc., Android, Google Inc., Web Browser
