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 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: 7,946 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: 100,472 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: 8,462 |
 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: 31,744 |
 Zend Technologies and Parallels announced that they will collaborate on solutions that enable hosting providers to deliver PHP applications through Parallels' control panels and server virtualization offerings. The companies will deliver product interoperability and integration, define...May. 21, 2008 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,793 |
 Before I get into any sort of detail, I think it's important to say that there is more than one way to approach an MVC. Go ahead, ask a few seasoned developers how they would hack together a project like this and each one will give you a completely different answer. I'm going to do my ...May. 13, 2008 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 7,383 |
Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans community announced the availability of the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Early Access for PHP scripting language, bringing the power of NetBeans to Web 2.0-style developers. Additionally they announced the general availability of t... May. 5, 2008 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,022 |
Over the next couple of articles, I'll be walking you through the process of developing a simple MVC framework that you can use as a starting point for almost any PHP application that needs to be developed. Furthermore this framework won't be like any other framework you've seen: it's ... Apr. 29, 2008 03:30 AM EDT Reads: 7,153 |
 Is software development a science or an art? The software industry treats it as a science. It uses processes like MRDs, PRDs, and functional specs to convert customer needs into software that solves their problems. Various roles like product managers, engineering managers, project mana...Apr. 27, 2008 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 16,973 |
 The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 27,043 Replies: 6 |
 Here is a question that I have been pondering on and off for quite a while: Why do 'cool kids' choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of Java? I have to admit that I do not have an answer. Why do I even care? Because I am a Java developer. Like many Java developers, I get along w...Apr. 1, 2008 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 123,284 Replies: 132 |
 Under its collaboration deal with Microsoft, Zend Technologies has certified Zend Core 2.5, its commercially supported version of PHP, on Windows Server 2008, and that's supposed to mean that high-performance web applications written in PHP should run as good on the Microsoft operating...Mar. 13, 2008 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,007 |
Jcx.Software announced the availability of VS.Php 2.4 for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. This is the new edition to the VS.Php family of products. VS.Php users that are planning to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 should upgrade to this edition. VS.Php 2.4 continues to be providing unique ... Feb. 27, 2008 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,495 |
 The advent of SOA and standard-base Web services together with Internet based delivery models has provided the essential base for facilitating new software platform innovations. One of these innovations is a breakthrough software componentization technique that we have coined Service O...Feb. 25, 2008 10:15 AM EST Reads: 18,963 Replies: 1 |
 Microsoft today attempted to exorcize the interoperability bogeymen that have haunted it since it was first discovered to be using secret APIs 20 years ago, bogeymen that now quote European antitrust law at it and carry writs from the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. To avoid fur...Feb. 21, 2008 10:00 PM EST Reads: 17,041 Replies: 2 |
 Appcelerator, Inc. is an open source software company specializing in products and services for rapid rich Internet application (RIA) and SOA-based services development. The Appcelerator Platform SDKs enable developers to develop rich Ajax and DHTML applications using cross-browser wid...Feb. 18, 2008 11:45 AM EST Reads: 20,999 Replies: 1 |
Norwegian browser maker Opera Software ASA has complained to the European Commission that Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its Internet Explorer browser to the Windows operating system and hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards. It wants I... Dec. 17, 2007 09:30 AM EST Reads: 9,843 Replies: 1 |
A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to 250 - testimony, if any... Dec. 12, 2007 02:45 PM EST Reads: 44,603 Replies: 1 |
 For building applications, BundleWorks includes ant tasks and command line tools to allow developers to build standard bundles for both custom and third-party applications. For testing, BundleWorks allows a developer to create and manage multiple environments to test multiple versions ...Dec. 5, 2007 01:30 PM EST Reads: 25,440 Replies: 1 |
 I installed Ubuntu on the Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu installed in 15 minutes - 49 for Windows XP and 125 for Windows Vista. Ubuntu's desktop came right up. I opened the pre-installed Firefox browser and found I could browse the Web immediately. Ubuntu installed a network adaptor for the To...Nov. 11, 2007 11:00 AM EST Reads: 24,691 Replies: 4 |
The three-year-old Dojo Foundation has put out version 1.0 of Dojo, an open source JavaScript toolkit for AJAX development meant for building rich Web 2.0 applications without proprietary plug-ins or single-vendor solutions. The widgetry makes use of Google Gears, Google's solution for... Nov. 9, 2007 02:45 PM EST Reads: 29,879 Replies: 1 |
Egenera, which claims it's the archetype Virtualization 2.0 company to VMware's Virtualization 1.0 - and is going put its PAN Manager software on other people's hardware to prove it - has convinced Fujitsu Siemens, which OEMs Egenera's BladeFrame servers, to put PAN on its own industry... Nov. 9, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 16,600 Replies: 1 |
Virtual appliances represent a new opportunity to streamline and simplify software distribution for virtual environments. With a virtual appliance, software vendors can ship thoroughly tested, standard configurations that require minimal installation effort. In this session, Troan will... Nov. 9, 2007 08:00 AM EST Reads: 9,629 |
 Let's consider the pages of a traditional corporate Website. They include an 'about me' page, a contact page, a careers section, and probably a page with news and press releases. The words look good on paper, and, more than likely, a committee gave the final sign-off on the site's cont...Nov. 2, 2007 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 28,840 Replies: 2 |
 What I am going to do in this regular column is feed my habit by highlighting some of the books I am reading, and (mostly) enjoying. (I will only rarely write negative reviews; it's a rare book that I 'do not put down gently but throw across the room with great force' after all.) Geeks...Nov. 1, 2007 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 31,902 Replies: 4 |
 I will be attending the Ajax World Conference next week in Santa Clara. I will also be at the opening reception on Monday and the conference party on Tuesday. Over the weekend Jesse Liberty blogged about this as well 'If you are going to be at AJAXWorld, look for me on Twitter, and let...Sep. 20, 2007 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 34,767 Replies: 1 |
SYS-CON Events announced today that 'AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West' main sponsorship opportunities are now sold-out! Limited number of expo and event sponsorship opportunities that are still available are expected to be completely sold before the end of the month. The new spons... Sep. 7, 2007 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 39,958 Replies: 2 |
I will be teaching a one day Bootcamp course on Ajax at the AJAXWorld Conference in Santa Clara, California on September 23, 2007. Details are at http://ajaxbootcamp.sys-con.com I will be expanding the Ajax construction tools section from the Ajax Bootcamp I taught in New York at the S... Sep. 7, 2007 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 44,385 Replies: 1 |
 Can afford to take just one day off, get out of your cubicle and see what other people up to these days? Is J2EE still in favor? What's this ESB is about? Have you even heard of using Flex as a Web front end of your Java applications? Do not miss an event in NYC this Monday, that is cr...Jul. 8, 2007 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 38,183 Replies: 1 |
Zend Framework, a class library available for PHP 5 Web application development, has followed a mission to provide classes that are extremely simple, yet powerful and extensible. Jul. 3, 2007 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 8,801 |
In order to describe itself as an 'open source' company, need a company merely be 'a company that will help you make the switch to open source in your company' - or does it have to be one that lets users feely download, compile, and use the software in question? Where is the dividing l... Mar. 1, 2007 05:00 AM EST Reads: 81,306 Replies: 18 |
 SYS-CON Events (www.events.sys-con.com) announced today that the first international 'AJAXWorld(TM) Conference & Expo' (www.ajaxworldexpo.com), taking place on October 3-4, 2006, at theSanta Clara Convention Center, California, will offer AJAXWorld University - Developer Bootcamp progr...Sep. 28, 2006 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 122,873 Replies: 27 |
 Let's play word association. I say 'Web Hosting.' I bet 'fat margins' didn't jump into your head. More likely, you thought of some of the 'where are they nows' of the bubble, like Exodus and PSINet. Let's do another round - I say 'New York City,' and I'd wager that 'cheap rent' wasn't ...Oct. 25, 2005 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 42,037 Replies: 2 |
 Oracle and Zend have also introduced a beta version of Zend Core for Oracle that will run on a Windows environment including Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. This product enables developers to easily run PHP web applications with Oracle Database on the Windows pl...Oct. 18, 2005 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 7,073 Replies: 1 |
Zend is going to join the IBM-inspired Java-based open source Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer and kick off an overarching open source initiative that it calls the PHP Collaboration Project to create an industrial-grade PHP web application development and deployment environm... Oct. 15, 2005 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 17,102 Replies: 2 |
 Enterprise IT departments face significant challenges in building applications that tie together heterogeneous business functions and data from a range of existing systems and applications. Existing portal applications are too rigid and inflexible to adapt to changing business requirem...Sep. 3, 2005 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 22,083 |
Zend Technologies, the PHP company, says that Lockheed Martin is going to use Zend Studio 4 to develop an object-oriented code-generation framework for NASA space exploration. Apr. 4, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,998 Replies: 2 |
Zend Technologies, the company that's itching for PHP, the LAMP constituent, to take on J2EE, is going to host a Zend/PHP conference. Mar. 20, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,775 |
Saying that its support of the open source scripting language PHP does not reflect any dissatisfaction with Java, IBM is partnering with Zend Technologies to create Zend Core, a bundling of IBM's Cloudscape database based on Apache Software Foundation Derby and Zend's open source PHP e... Feb. 28, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 21,435 Replies: 12 |
Zend Technologies Inc, the keeper of PHP, a constituent of LAMP, the multi-headed god of open source, is taking on J2EE, one of the last remaining places where Sun still shines, seeking to replace it. Zend claims to offer greater programmer productivity and to create programs that run ... Jan. 7, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 21,492 Replies: 2 |
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