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  • Google updates Android developer kit

    The NDK allows you to implement parts of your applications using native-code languages such as C and C++. OpenGL ES 2.0 added to package enabling developers to build performance critical parts of an app in native code Developers of the…
  • Copycat China Google hacks are on pace to double this year

    One email message purportedly written by a CNN reporter seeks an interview with the email recipient and says that the attached file contains a list of questions the reporter wants to ask.In another case the email was sent to a human rights…
  • NaturalOne welds Natural and Eclipse together

    Company offers NaturalOne IDE for the decades-old language Fourth-generation languages may appear to be yesterday's technology, swept aside by more contemporary development platforms like Java or Microsoft's .Net.
  • Symphony 3.0 beta signals another attack on Office

    Users have been asking the company to make Symphony's features more competitive with Microsoft Office, the dominant productivity suite among corporate users.Lotus claims more than 12 million users of Symphony, which is available in 28 languages.
  • Facebook releases open source PHP tool

    HipHop executes the source code in a semantically equivalent manner and sacrifices some rarely used features, such as eval(), in exchange for improved performance.PHP, Zhao said, offers benefits in terms of programmer productivity, as do other…
  • Novell MonoTouch brings Microsoft coders to Apple iPad

    The MonoTouch platform allows developers to use languages written for .Net when developing iPad applications Novell is positioning its MonoTouch software development kit as a mechanism for building Microsoft .Net-based applications for Apple's new…

Latest Features

  • HTML 5 to shake up the web

    Still other elements improve support for non-Latin character sets, including tags for specifying the "ruby text" that appears in some Asian languages. Such plug-ins not only introduce new security risks, but they also narrow the audiences of the…
  • Why Google Android beats the Apple iPhone

    Not only that, but all of the code from other Java programs will run on your Android phone, although it won't look pretty or run as fast as it does on multicore servers.The biggest challenge for the Java programmer is working through the seemingly…
  • Google Go gets the thumbs up from developers

    Less than four months after its unveiling at an early, experimental stage, Google Go looks promising to developers who say it offers significant improvements over other programming languages. Less than four months after its unveiling at an early…
  • Apple iPad offers IT department opportunities

    Invariably the system you want to connect to will have a database, which in turn will have ways of getting data in and out (generally using common connectors such as ODBC), so a relatively simple solution would be to build an intranet that…
  • Top 10 open source apps for Apple Mac OS

    There's also support for the usual suspects like Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby, as well as some not so common languages like Rexx, LaTeX, and Prolog. But underneath this beautiful facade is a heart built upon the rich, if often chaotic, world of open…
  • How to get the most out of Twitter: 8 free Twitter clients

    You can simultaneously send a message to your Twitter, Facebook and MySpace accounts, shorten URLs (by, among other ways, linking to your Bit.ly account -- if you have one -- so you can track your clicks), send Twitpics (a service that lets you…
 

How-Tos

  • How to secure your data in the cloud

    The Cloud Security Alliance has taken a second run at creating recommendations for businesses to follow in order to better secure cloud services.The new document aligns CSA's definition of cloud computing with that of the National Institute of…
  • How to use Windows Server Update Service

    Once installed on a server, you can run the installation on your desktop computer for remote management.During setup, WSUS launches a configuration wizard, giving you an opportunity to specify what languages you use, what products you want to see…
  • How to use Facebook and Twitter to market your business

    The service is currently free.Scout Labs lets you monitor what people are saying about your company (or your competitors) on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and social networks and blogs in foreign languages.
  • How to deploy Windows 7

    These two editions also offer the Windows 7 UI in 35 languages in a single OS image for global deployment. Windows 7 is right around the corner. The official release date is 22 October, but some PC makers will ship it before then.
  • How to avoid redundancy

    We had a lot of mundane tasks and I knew a few scripting languages so I was able to streamline workflows and become valuable in terms of our automation strategy," he explains. Despite talk of an economic recovery on the horizon, countless lost jobs…
  • Mac OSX Snow Leopard Upgrade: The Facts

    As with previous Mac OS X installers, you can opt out of language translation packs and additional fonts for languages that don't use the Roman alphabet (like Cyrillic, Chinese, or Arabic) to save a bit of hard-drive space.

Reviews

  • PHP code tools round up

    Since October 2009, the TIOBE Programming Community Index has PHP holding third place, behind Java and C, among programming languages overall. Since October 2009, the TIOBE Programming Community Index has PHP holding third place, behind Java and C…
  • MPSoftware phpDesigner 7 review

    Though phpDesigner is a PHP development tool, it can be used to edit source from a variety of languages, including Python, Ruby, Java, Perl, and others. The IDE offers only syntax highlighting in the additional languages.
  • ActiveState Komodo review

    Though we would have wished for an integrated database management system, Komodo is nevertheless an excellent choice if your development requirements go beyond PHP and into one of the other languages supported.
  • CoreTrace Bouncer application control review

    However, Bouncer doesn't cover all program file types, notably those written in interpreted languages such as Python, PHP, or Java.Started in early 2008, Bouncer is made up of a Windows XP Embedded management appliance and supports clients…
  • Interead Cool-ER

    The uppermost of these four buttons brings up the MP3 player software and an included Sudoku game (which suffers from its dependence on the stiff navigation wheel and its lack of numeric buttons).The second button toggles between portrait mode and…
  • Sony Reader Pocket Edition ebook reader review

    The Pocket Edition does come preloaded with excerpts from a handful of books in several languages, however.Reading on the Pocket Edition is easy and intuitive. The Sony Reader Pocket Edition (PRS-300) is about as inexpensive as e-book readers…

White Papers

  • Oracle Database 11g Application Development

    The modern IT organization is faced with a multitude of application development languages and tools to choose from. Explore Oracle Database 11g , a single integrated platform offering high performance and scalability for the most popular…
  • Not All .NET Enabled ERP Solutions Are Created Equal

    Programmers can chose from several different programming languages, such as C#, VB .NET, J#, Net Express and others. The Microsoft .NET strategy continues to confuse many users and vendors due to the lack of understanding surrounding the technology.
  • Strategies for Simplifying .NET Application Deployment

    The .NET Framework also allows developers to create applications using a number of different programming languages including Visual Basic, C#, and J#. This paper discusses how to add flexibility for addressing complex environments; openness for…
  • Deploying Mobile Web Services using Liberty Alliances Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF)

    Optimized identity management also allows for more effective delivery of web services.Web services make it possible for software written in a variety of languages and deployed on a wide range of platforms, from mobile devices and laptops to…
  • Oracles Commitment to the Eclipse Community

    Eclipse has gained strong market adoption for core Java development and is adding support for other languages as well. It enjoys great popularity, in part because its free, but also due to its extensibility via plug-ins and the strong ecosystem…
  • Thinking about Software as a Service (SaaS)

    Traditional systems were often developed with programming languages (3GL and 4GL environments) and database systems that are difficult and time-consuming to change. This paper highlights the application development shifts that vendors must go…
 
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