Ruby shining on Java, Windows, and Mac OS

Implementations of the dynamic language leverage popular platforms to broaden its appeal... more

Microsoft previews Rx for asynchronous programming

Extensions to .Net are featured on DevLabs site... more

Making money from open source: Still an issue

Novell official notes it can be difficult to generate revenues via new give-it-away software paradigm... more

Microsoft shows off Silverlight 4's feature list at PDC

The technology will feature improved startup times and more capabilities for running applications outside of a browser ... more

Microsoft to open up compilers for Visual Basic, C#

Language improvements for multicore processors also promised... more

Update: Microsoft sets Windows Azure commercial production date

The cloud platform, which has been in the community technology preview stage, goes to the next phase early in 2010... more

JetBrains upgrades Ruby IDE

RubyMine 2.0 features improvements in refactoring and code analysis, as well as a set of tools for code changes in software projects... more

Adobe offers upgrades for Flash and AIR

The company stressed that it is bringing the full desktop Flash to mobile devices... more

Why developers like SharePoint 2010

Integration with Visual Studio is one change that makes SharePoint much easier to develop collaboration apps, developers say... more

Microsoft open sources .Net Micro development framework

Version 4.0 has been released under the Apache 2.0 license, but the TCP/IP and cryptography stacks were not open sourced... more

Klocwork tunes software code analysis suite for agile projects

Version 9.0 of company's Insight Pro product features collaborative code review... more

Amazon Web Services offers .Net development kit for its cloud platform

Software builders can leverage services like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud in their .Net applications... more

WSO2 extending SOA into cloud computing

The WSO2 Cloud Platform rollout features secure services multi-tenancy ... more

Microsoft developer technologies take center stage at PDC

At the Professional Developers Conference next week, Microsoft will cover a range of efforts from cloud computing to programming languages... more

Sun shuts down Zembly social apps development effort

The environment for building and hosting social applications will be taken down on November 30... more

Google goes forward with Go language

The open source effort attempts to combine the speed of dynamic languages with the performance and safety of compiled languages... more

Microsoft rechristens Oslo modeling platform

The technology is now called SQL Server Modeling, and Microsoft will release a community technology preview next week... more

Novell plugs Linux developers into Visual Studio

Mono Tools lets Visual Studio developers use the Microsoft IDE for cross-platform application development... more

Microsoft brings Silverlight to Facebook

The two companies' latest collaboration combines Web, client, and social technologies for building apps and services for the social networking site... more

Microsoft buys bridge between Java and .Net developers

The company is acquiring SourceGear's Teamprise suite, which lets Java developers build apps via Visual Studio TFS... more