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 Microsoft was in one of its interoperability moods Wednesday and said that developers using Eclipse, the great open source IDE, will be able to target Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, its Azure cloud operating system and Silverlight. This renewed open source invasion – Microsoft’s no...Oct. 30, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 621 |
 What could you do with your code in 20 Lines or Less? That's the question I ask (almost) every week for the devcentral community, and every week I go looking to find cool new examples that show just how flexible and powerful iRules can... Oct. 30, 2009 01:12 PM EDT Reads: 319 |
 Zend Technologies, the PHP company, has hung Zend Server 5.0, which support IBM i as well as Linux and Windows, out for public beta. A production release should be out by the end of the year. The widgetry is a major new version of the company’s enterprise-ready PHP application server, ...Oct. 28, 2009 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 566 |
 After posting large gains throughout 2009, swine flu stocks are seeing their largest pullback yet. For investors looking to position their portfolios for flu season, there are more ways to trade the flu than ever. Investors have large-cap pharmaceutical plays to choose from, and some o...Oct. 14, 2009 11:06 AM EDT Reads: 705 |
 Half the apps on the Internet are written in PHP. That gives Zend Technologies, the PHP house, a stake in the cloud. So it’s rounded up cloud merchants Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, GoGrid and Nirvanix and has gotten them to support its new open source drive to create a so-called Simple A...Sep. 23, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,508 |
 PHP/Zend, Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, GoGrid and Nirvanix have launched a new low level cloud API for PHP called the "Simple Cloud API". The API can best be described as low level storage focused API (An API for other API's). In a sense it's a way to create other higher level programmat...Sep. 22, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 825 |
 Keynote Systems, a provider of on-demand mobile and Internet test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience, today announced Version 3.0 of KITE (Keynote Internet Testing Environment). KITE 3.0 is Keynote’s free desktop tool for real time testing, diagnos...Sep. 16, 2009 08:12 AM EDT Reads: 405 |
 Build Release Management (BRM) is truly the next generation of IT Change Management. With BRM, you can get compliant and implement total process automation while continuing to work with whatever version control tool, testing application or IDE you are currently using. Download this ess...Sep. 14, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,684 |
 Jon has a point; Microsoft’s restricted (i.e., Express) editions are as free as the open source alternatives. This is undeniably true, since the purpose of many software vendor’s “Express” edition is to compete against open source on price. However, the difference is that with open sou...Sep. 12, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,974 |
 Now that VS.Php 2.7 is out, I'll like to share our progress with VS.Php for Visual Studio 2010. If you are currently participating on the VS2010 beta program, you can try VS.Php for Visual Studio 2010. Here is a screenshot of VS.Php running on Visual Studio 2010: ...Aug. 18, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 893 |
 One of the coolest parts of the new SproutCore View layer is its ability to use aspect-based programming to add behaviors to views.
Aspect-based programming is built on the premise that often objects that don’t follow from the same class hierarchy may in fact need similar behaviors....Aug. 18, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,205 |
 IT presenters are being hard-hit by a rampant new disease: the F5 Flu, a variation of Death by Power Point. Read on to find out about transmission, symptoms, and most importantly, how to get vaccinated.Aug. 17, 2009 02:54 PM EDT Reads: 1,091 |
 In my recent blog post – Get more out of functional web testing: How to correlate test reports with server side log information? – I discussed the problem that testing results are usually not linked to the log and diagnostics information captured by the application under test. The blog...Aug. 7, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,732 |
 What could you do with your code in 20 Lines or Less? That's the question I ask (almost) every week for the devcentral community, and every week I go looking to find cool new examples that show just how flexible and powerful iRules can be without getting in over your head.
Here are ...Aug. 6, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,147 |
 We pleased to announce the release of VS.Php 2.7 for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005. This release introduces a number of new key features and enhacements of existing features.
Silverlight
One of the most exciting new features is Silverlight integration. With VS.Php 2.7, ...Aug. 3, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 870 |
 As more and more data become available as a matter of course, the examples set by organisations such as MySociety become increasingly attainable for us all. Other than ensuring that it is ‘open,’ do we need to be asking for more from those making data available? And once it’s there, wi...Aug. 2, 2009 04:34 PM EDT Reads: 1,448 |
 This article describes a method to use a perl debugger on trigger scripts without advanced interprocess debugging tools.
Using a perl debugger with a V4.x server side trigger launched by the server is very difficult and encounters two known obstacles:
The server will fire the tri...Aug. 1, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,505 |
 Zend Technologies, the PHP commercializer, has put out a major new release of Zend Studio, its IDE for the PHP language.
Designed to improve productivity for professional-grade web application development, Studio 7.0 supports the newly released PHP 5.3 language as well as tight integ...Jul. 31, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,065 |
 Rackspace Hosting Thursday open sourced the specifications for its Cloud Servers and Cloud Files APIs under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license.
It says it worked with developers in an open community to create the specifications and they can now copy, implement and modify t...Jul. 23, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,526 |
 IT managers can look to an unlikely source for career inspiration: the late Walter Cronkite. The guiding principles that made Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America" can help impact your career in the world of high tech.
The late Walter Cronkite as a role model for IT managers? ...Jul. 20, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,127 |
 Step by step instructions to configure Eclipse for PHP with the WampServer on a Windows platform. The most recent version of Eclipse, version 3.5 RC4, is used.Jun. 29, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,500 |
 Microsoft announced at TechEd India — a show running simultaneously with TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles, a new software development kit for people interested in building apps in PHP for Windows Azure cloud. The PHP SDK for Windows Azure, a.k.a. PHPAzure, is an open source project, availabl...Jun. 12, 2009 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,733 |
 Joel Spolsky doesn't need my help in defending himself. But since he's my favorite blogger and a person I highly respect, I feel obligated to speak up. Mr. Curt Monash has written an article implying that Joel overestimates his importance while not achieving that much since he was able...Mar. 9, 2009 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,124 |
 Ulitzer.com, which initially made the headlines with its “job descriptions from the future,” announced today that it will launch its Ulitzer “beta” site with more than 16,000 authors and more than 1 million original articles, published in more than 5,000 topic-specific online journals....Feb. 3, 2009 09:30 PM EST Reads: 29,382 Replies: 1 |
Aptana has launched the 1.0 version of Aptana PHP, an open source, integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP application development. Aptana PHP extends Aptana Studio, the Eclipse-based IDE for AJAX and Web development that is on track to exceed 2.8 million downloads before year... Dec. 16, 2008 04:00 AM EST Reads: 2,894 |
 Writing shell scripts to automate the build and deploy process for ColdFusion applications is not very much fun. The Jakarta Ant project is an open-source, cross-platform alternative that makes it easy to automate the build and deploy process.Dec. 1, 2008 12:15 PM EST Reads: 22,290 Replies: 2 |
According to AMI Partners, a leading SMB research firm, 62 percent of midsize businesses see customer relationship management as strategically important, yet only 14 percent have implemented it due to return on investment pressures and limited resources. Further, while 64 percent think... Nov. 11, 2008 09:41 AM EST Reads: 1,724 |
 "There is already sort of a cloud ecosystem out there in the world of PHP," notes Sun's Tim Bray in a recent post. "There are a whole bunch of competitive vendors where you can upload a bunch of .php files and database dumps and with only a moderate amount of twiddling, get your app ru...Nov. 6, 2008 08:15 AM EST Reads: 4,564 Replies: 1 |
Aptana has announced the general availability of Aptana Cloud, an online service that integrates with Eclipse software development tools to enable hosting, scaling and managing Web applications in "The Cloud." Aptana Cloud provides an end-to-end solution for deploying, scaling, staging... Oct. 23, 2008 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,901 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global rich Internet technology provider Appcelerator named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, ...Oct. 17, 2008 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,971 |
As web-based applications are pushing the "Rich User Experience" envelope, AJAX is quickly becoming a standard front-end for any PHP application. But unfortunately as PHP applications that utilize AJAX are being forced to morph from two-tier to three-tier architectures, pushing code to... Oct. 10, 2008 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,341 |
 Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, software-as-a-service, SOA, grid com...Sep. 29, 2008 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 33,795 Replies: 2 |
 Watching VMware stock and its market cap spike since it IPO'd must have had Red Hat positively pea green with envyWatching VMware stock and its market cap spike since it IPO'd must have had Red Hat positively pea green with envy - so green in fact that it's gonna try taking VMware on b...Sep. 11, 2008 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 21,501 Replies: 1 |
Aptana announced the acquisition of Pydev. The combination of Pydev with Aptana Studio, which is approaching 2.3 million downloads, will bring Aptana's excellence in AJAX development ease to the Python community and bring Python support to Aptana's product lines. The move further reinf... Aug. 26, 2008 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,891 |
 As Web-based applications are pushing the "Rich User Experience" envelope, AJAX is quickly becoming a standard front-end for any PHP application. But unfortunately as PHP applications that utilize AJAX are being forced to morph from two-tier to three-tier architectures, pushing code to...Aug. 7, 2008 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,525 |
 Photon Infotech announced the opening of the Photon Drupal Training Center, a new facility that will leverage and expand Photon's experience and expertise with Drupal, an open-source PHP-driven Content Management System. With a goal of certifying 200 new Drupal experts a year, Photon w...Jul. 17, 2008 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,766 |
 Java developers have had a nice ride the last few years. With ferocious competition in the Java tools space, the tools they use have been getting better and better. Where one tool innovates, such as with quick fixes, the competitors quickly duplicate and expand on that innovation. This...Jun. 23, 2008 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,797 Replies: 1 |
 From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown ...Jun. 10, 2008 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 100,148 Replies: 2 |
 Nothing's cooler than writing a bad-ass site or application and watching it gain popularity and a significant user base. By the same token, nothing's more frustrating than watching your app fall on its face when its running under high load. If you're like me, you know how disheartening...Jun. 9, 2008 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,373 |
 Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management...May. 29, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 31,296 |
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