August 31, 2009

Best of Open Source Software Awards 2009

InfoWorld's 2009 Bossies spotlight today's Top 40 open source products for business and IT pros

August 12, 2009

Palm's Mojo SDK for the Pre mixes simplicity, rough edges

With Palm's WebOS and development tools, Web programming ascends to the throne and powers the app layer, but Palm's platform is clearly a work in progress

July 28, 2009

iPhone development tools that work the way you do

You don't need to master Cocoa and Objective C to create killer iPhone apps. Rhomobile, PhoneGap, Appcelerator, and Ansca tools leverage standard Web technologies and still tap native features

July 22, 2009

Open source Hive: Large-scale, distributed data processing made easy

Thank heaven for Hive, a data analysis and query front end for Hadoop that makes Hadoop data files look like SQL tables

June 15, 2009

First look: Adobe Flash and Flex ignite with Flash Catalyst

Adobe Flex 4 SDK, Flash Builder 4, and Flash Catalyst betas close the gap between great UI design and rich Internet application development

June 12, 2009

First look: Microsoft Silverlight 3 challenges Adobe AIR

Redmond's much-enhanced rich Internet application platform also runs on Windows or Mac desktops, online or offline

June 4, 2009

First look: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 shows some leg

Microsoft's IDE reveals a cleaner look, IntelliSense and Designer improvements, even parallel programming support, but some promises still achingly unfulfilled

May 20, 2009

First look: JBoss Drools grows up, and out

Red Hat's open source rule engine turns full-goose enterprise BRMS, and decision management suite, in Version 5.0

March 24, 2009

Open source and SaaS offerings rethink the database

Key-value repositories and other alternatives take aim at simplicity, scalability, and cloud services

February 26, 2009

Test Center review: King of the dynamic IDEs

Multilingual ActiveState Komodo 5.0 conquers Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby projects with strong debug facilities, excellent code control, and an unbeatable set of utilities

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