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PHP developers get Eclipse boost The Eclipse Foundation will make available Tuesday the 1.0 release of the Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) project, featuring tools and frameworks to enhance developer productivity with the PHP scripting language BEA's Genesis to back open source, scripting languages BEA Systems' planned next-generation application platform, called Project Genesis, will feature an open source component and accommodate scripting languages such as Ruby and Perl, BEA officials said at the BEAWorld San Francisco conference on Tuesday.  September 11, 4:30 p.m. PDT Best of open source in software development The wealth of open source software development goodies is heaven for the developer community, but it's hell on an awards committee. Considering IDEs, debuggers, defect trackers, code coverage tools, unit testers, load testers, and so on, we could have come up with more awards here than the rest of the Bossies combined. Then there were paths that could only lead to trouble. Could we really choose a best language? Or a best development platform? Could we pick Python over Perl, or Rails over Mono? September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Introducing the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies Not too long ago, open source meant starving developers; scant documentation; an ugly, outdated Web site; and software that lived in perpetual beta. Now open source software is becoming big business. “Now hiring” is a common sight on project home pages, and .org and SourceForge sites that used to point straight to source code archives are redirected to .com URLs that celebrate the commercial success of what started out as collaborations among unpaid coders of like mind. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Gaia AJAX technology set for .Net developers Gaia Ajax Widgets, an alternative AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) library for developing ASP.Net and Mono applications, has been upgraded with re-factoring to make it easier to view and modify code. August 16, 1:19 p.m. PDT Eclipse Europa aftermath draws plaudits, complaints Despite isolated complaints about stability, the Eclipse Foundation has deemed its recent Europa technology release a success with more than 2 million downloads since the software became available on June 29. August 15, 3:36 p.m. PDT CodeGear, Red Hat add dev tools for Eclipse, Java CodeGear and Red Hat plan product rollouts on Monday to enhance Java development on the Eclipse platform. August 13, 5:00 a.m. PDT The ABC's of RIA Rich Internet applications, or RIAs, comprise a spectrum of application types and technologies. The lightweight end of the spectrum is anchored by AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) or Web 2.0 applications, which add richness and responsiveness to standard Web sites with asynchronous JavaScript libraries: that's the "AJA" part of "AJAX." The "X" stands for "XML," but these days XML is not the only data format used by such libraries; it's also common to see asynchronous data exchange in JSON, HTML, and plain text formats. At this point, many people have stopped treating "AJAX" as a specific acronym and talk instead about the generic "Ajax" class of applications. August 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Zend PHP framework set for Web development Zend Technologies will offer the 1.0 version of its framework for PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) Web application development, which in pre-release forms has attracted more than 1 million downloads, on Monday. June 27, 3:52 p.m. PDT BEA ready to lock down Workshop 10.1 code BEA Systems will lock down the code for Workshop 10.1 this Friday in preparation for the Java development tool's release next month. June 27, 7:46 a.m. PDT Eclipse Europa release train arrives The Eclipse Foundation announced Wednesday its Europa release train, which features technologies from 21 open-source projects. June 26, 9:00 p.m. PDT Talend applies SaaS to data integration Talend, an open source data integration software maker, unveiled a new service-based software product Monday, Talend On Demand, a service (SaaS) version of the company's Talend Open Studio product. June 18, 12:05 a.m. PDT PayPal CTO: Security, mobility to spur growth PayPal's Chief Technology Officer, Scott Thompson, is a prime example of what might be called the "payments geek." June 13, 9:07 a.m. PDT Cyberpunks: Pick on someone your own size! A tiny news item on Friday caught my attention: the country of Estonia has been enduring a vicious cyber attack for three weeks, effectively crippling many of its government, financial and media websites. May 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Octopz grabs on to Web collaboration Nobody's sure exactly how it is that social networks like MySpace and Facebook are really going to make money for their corporate masters. But one thing people have figured out is that online social networks are great mediums for people to share ideas and collaborate. Now one startup, Octopz, is hoping to apply that logic to the topsy-turvy community of creative professionals. In the process, the company is making a splash in the ocean of Internet collaboration hopefuls. May 19, 3:05 a.m. PDT Bungee Labs: App dev as a service One of the oft told cautionary tales of capitalism is the one about the California Gold Rush. You know -- how just a handful of the hundreds of thousands of hopefuls who streamed into the state actually discovered gold, but many thousands of others got rich supplying them with housing, materials and the like. Think "Levi-Strauss & Co." and you get the picture. May 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun: Pay open-source developers Sun is proposing that open-source developers be paid for the revenue-generating technology that they have made available for free. May 7, 4:04 p.m. PDT NetBeans IDE tackles Ruby, JavaScript Move over, Java. The NetBeans open source tools package is making room for popular scripting languages. May 4, 12:00 p.m. PDT Silverlight coming to Linux via Mono Silverlight, Microsoft's new multimedia display technology, is being targeted for inclusion on Linux via the Mono open-source project, a Mono representative confirmed on Friday. May 4, 11:34 a.m. PDT OASIS advances SOA standards OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards , said on Wednesday that it was launching a new effort to simplify the development of standards-based SOA applications, according to an OASIS statement. April 11, 9:57 a.m. PDT Update: Apache battles Sun over Java license The Apache Software Foundation is in a dispute with Sun Microsystems over a license for the Java technology compatibility kit needed for the Apache Harmony project. April 10, 1:36 p.m. PDT IBM hails Jazz collaboration platform IBM's Jazz platform for collaborative application lifecycle management has leveraged Eclipse in terms of processes used to develop both initiatives, an IBM official said during TheServerSide Java Symposium conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. March 21, 2:20 p.m. PST IBM Safari to help developers navigate languages Seeking to assist software developers coping with many languages, IBM plans to offer its Safari technology to the Eclipse open source community, an IBM official said at the EclipseCon 2007 conference on Thursday. March 8, 12:45 p.m. PST AJAX IDE called good idea Even if text editors have been prominent in AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development, developers nonetheless would benefit from an IDE, panelists agreed at the EclipseCon 2007 conference on Wednesday. March 7, 4:30 p.m. PST Eclipse executive chides Microsoft on interoperability Santa Clara, Calif. -- Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich criticized Microsoft on Tuesday for not approaching Eclipse about interoperability between .Net and open source Eclipse technologies. March 6, 1:30 p.m. PST BEA flies Eclipse flag Casting the open-source Eclipse platform as a linchpin of product uniformity efforts, BEA Systems plans to reconfigure several middleware clients so they can be plugged into the Eclipse IDE, a company official said on Monday. March 6, 5:00 a.m. PST Reports: Open source gathers steam Separate reports from The 451 Group and Evans Data this week confirm what seems obvious: open-source software is impacting commercial software companies and continues to gain adoption worldwide. February 15, 12:30 p.m. PST Microsoft's Zocher talks up Expression When you own as much of the world’s operating system market as Microsoft does, even small changes to your platform become immensely complicated in practice. For evidence of that, just consider Microsoft Expression, a line of design tools for creating 3D visuals, animation, and video clips on both Windows and Web applications. Expression is all about giving application developers and Web designers tools to take advantage of new graphics capabilities in Windows Vista, such as WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). But Expressions has raised as many questions as it has answered: Is it an application development tool or a Web design tool? Is it Microsoft’s answer to Adobe’s Flash? Eric Zocher, general manager of the Microsoft Expression product line, chatted with InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill to sort out Expression fact from fiction. February 5, 3:00 a.m. PST IRobot opens interface to Roomba platform Opening the control interface of its popular Roomba vacuuming robot, iRobot Corp. unveiled a programmable robotic platform on Monday that could allow computer programming students and developers to use the platform for nearly any task. January 8, 12:11 p.m. PST Eclipse clears developer clutter The Eclipse Foundation, with an open source technology release on Monday, hopes to alleviate developers of clutter. December 11, 5:00 a.m. PST The mythical open source miracle Joel Spolsky is one of our most celebrated pundits on the practice of software development, and he's full of terrific insight. In a recent blog post, he decries the fallacy of "Lego programming" -- the all-too-common assumption that sophisticated new tools will make writing applications as easy as snapping together children's toys. It simply isn't so, he says -- despite the fact that people have been claiming it for decades -- because the most important work in software development happens before a single line of code is written. December 11, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006: A year of IT highs and lows It happens every year: as the calendar gets ready to turn over, we get an itch to pause, to be quiet, to reflect. That’s probably why “year in review” stories are so popular at this time of year: they channel a seasonal compunction among editors and readers alike. December 11, 3:00 a.m. PST StreamBase looks to entice developers Extending its developer outreach, complex event processing software maker StreamBase is making a development environment available as a free plug-in to the Eclipse platform. December 3, 9:00 p.m. PST FedEx Kinko's and our connected future As the big name CIO keynoting at this year’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Rob Carter of Federal Express could have been forgiven for doing a deep dive on how his 7,000-person IT team is using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), mashups, Web video, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl/PHP/Python), and other checkbox items from the cool-tools list. But Carter took things in a different direction: talking philosophically about how the Internet’s impact is accelerating changes in the way the world interacts and in the way IT works. November 20, 3:00 a.m. PST Goodbye Mono, hello Java? Just when the Mono Project was beginning to gain traction, along comes Sun Microsystems to take the wind from its sails. I can't help but feel it's a mixed blessing. November 20, 3:00 a.m. PST Major vendors put open source into turmoil Major software vendors are shaking up the open-source market. Microsoft Corp.'s deal with Novell Inc. and Oracle Corp.'s move to support Red Hat Linux have sent IT investors scurrying to figure out what it all means. November 16, 12:57 p.m. PST Ruby on Rails stakes out Java’s turf SAN JOSE, Calif. – Look out, Java. Ruby on Rails is staking out your turf. November 9, 4:40 p.m. PST Sun readies NetBeans boost The NetBeans open source platform championed by Sun Microsystems has less industry support than rival Eclipse, which enjoys the backing of vendors such as IBM and Oracle. But Sun on Monday is launching an effort to boost NetBeans and is seeking new endorsements. October 29, 9:01 p.m. PST OpenAjax to focus on security, complexity Sometimes it’s all in the packaging. Take McDonald’s “Happy Meals,” for example. You’ve got a burger, fries, and a drink. But wrap it in kid-friendly packaging, add a cheap plastic toy, and voilà! You’ve got a whole new product line. In the application development world, much the same thing has happened in recent months, as a grab bag of Web development technologies such as JavaScript, XML, and some tried-and-true presentation technologies such as HTML and CSS were rebranded AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). October 16, 3:00 a.m. PDT Apache highlights open source projects Open source technologies including Apache's Struts Java development framework and Jackrabbit content repository were among the projects debuting or getting upgraded at the ApacheCon conference in Austin, Texas, this week. October 13, 8:15 a.m. PDT TippingPoint Releases Anti-phishing Tool There’s a kind of “tyranny of good intentions” that often springs up around IT security problems. 3:00 a.m. PDT BEA hits out at open source You could hear Rob Levy's teeth chattering all the way from Bangalore. The CTO of BEA Systems must be scared out of his wits. How else to explain the mishmash of half-truths and misleading facts he told the IDG News Service during a tour of BEA's India-based R&D facility two weeks ago? 3:00 a.m. PDT Tibco to open source, upgrade AJAX toolkit Tibco Software on Monday is announcing its intention to offer its General Interface rich Internet application toolkit via an open source format. The product, based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), is being made available via open source as part of the company's announcement of General Interface Version 3.2, which supports the Firefox 1.5 browser. The company is offering the beta release on Monday. Other new features in Version 3.2 include additional components such as tree grids and scalable vector graphics for Firefox. October 2, 5:00 a.m. PDT Eclipse: The billion-dollar baby? The Eclipse Foundation’s Eclipse World 2006 made its way to Cambridge, Mass., in early September, with foundation executives touting the success of the open source application development project in attracting developer interest and support from big-name players such as IBM. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill caught up with The foundation’s Executive Director Mike Milinkovich to talk about the organization’s accomplishments, competition with Microsoft and Sun, respecting Java and the road ahead. September 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Eclipse exec cites dynamic language inclusion, .Net rivalry The Eclipse Foundation has established itself as a premier open source software tools project. The organization has gained support from vendors ranging from IBM (which helped found Eclipse in 2001) to Borland Software, BEA Systems, and seemingly every other major player in the software industry except Sun Microsystems and Microsoft. The EclipseWorld 2006 show in Cambridge, Mass. last week afforded those using Eclipse technologies a chance to get updated on the latest developments at Eclipse. InfoWorld Editor-at-Large Paul Krill attended and interviewed Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse executive director, about the state of Eclipse and subjects ranging from dynamic languages to rivalries with Sun and Microsoft. September 12, 1:30 p.m. PDT IBM prepares open-source systems management initiative for Eclipse Cambridge, Mass. -- IBM and other parties are set to propose an open source systems management initiative for consideration by the Eclipse Foundation, with managing SOA a goal of the plan, an IBM official said at the EclipseWorld 2006 conference on Friday. September 8, 1:40 p.m. PDT Eclipse chief cites ‘secret sauce’ for success CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Eclipse can attribute its success as an open source tools platform to a "secret sauce" enabling multiple organizations to work together, said Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich, in a keynote speech at the EclipseWorld 2006 conference on Thursday. September 7, 6:41 p.m. PDT IBM extending tech support to raw Eclipse platform IBM Rational on Thursday is announcing plans to provide technical support for the Eclipse open source tools platform, thus giving customers a single point of contact for both open source and IBM's commercial technologies for software development. IBM will also unveil plans for upcoming tools geared to the new Eclipse 3.2 platform, and it is rolling out online developer resources for Eclipse users. IBM is making the announcements at the EclipseWorld conference in Cambridge, Mass. September 6, 9:01 p.m. PDT Eclipse touting desktop client tool, other efforts at event The Eclipse Foundation at the EclipseWorld 2006 conference in Cambridge, Mass., this week plans to tout the progress of open source projects focused on desktop application development, PHP (Hypertext Processor) and embedded Java. September 5, 5:00 a.m. PDT Community drives scripting adoption Scripting languages, sometimes called “dynamic” languages, have become all the rage, in part because they let developers get a lot of work done with comparatively little code. This “bang for the buck” derives from new approaches that push more of the work onto the compiler and runtime environment -- such as deriving a variable’s type by its value -- in addition to special shortcuts for frequently performed actions. September 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Open source breathes life into Java There can be no doubt that open source has been a tremendous boon to Java. The JCP (Java Community Process), by which the Java language and platform moves ahead, seems to inch forward at a glacial pace. Committee review and approval are slow, thoughtful processes, but they’re conducted at a pace that cannot be wholly condemned. Java, after all, is the leading platform for enterprise applications and as such, it should evolve slowly, even when needs are pressing. Resolving one set of problems by creating another is never a good solution. September 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft looks to accommodate dynamic languages The growing popularity of dynamic languages, such as Perl, Python, and Ruby -- which are popular for building Web applications -- has caused companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems to stand up and take a look. Although Microsoft has championed development using traditional Windows development languages such as Visual Basic and C#, the company has recently made accommodations for dynamic languages, with projects such asIronPython and Phalanger hosted on Microsoft's CodePlex site for community development. Still, Microsoft is largely leaving it to the community at large to provide the dynamic-language capabilities on the .Net Framework. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill and Test Center Executive Editor Doug Dineley spoke this week to Jason McConnell, the Visual Studio product manager responsible for all languages at Microsoft, about the state of dynamic languages on .Net. August 18, 11:35 a.m. PDT ActiveGrid to move tools to Eclipse San Francisco - ActiveGrid, which calls itself the "Enterprise Web 2.0 company," is moving its tooling over to the Eclipse open source environment and will join the Eclipse Foundation as well. August 16, 4:40 p.m. PDT Update: Sun inches closer to open-source Java Sun Microsystems launched a portal site for its Java programming language on Tuesday as the company inches closer to making the Java code open source, a company executive said Tuesday. August 15, 8:42 a.m. PDT Oracle enhances Linux pretesting Oracle is doubling the number of Linux systems pretested by its Validated Configurations program. August 15, 5:27 a.m. PDT Palamida, Black Duck advance IP wares at LinuxWorld Palamida and Black Duck Software, both of which provide intellectual property compliance services, are using the occasion of the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco this week to reveal product expansions. August 14, 6:00 a.m. PDT Why Microsoft should open XAML Our marketing-driven and future-oriented IT industry doesn’t like to remember its own history. It’s surprisingly hard to recover the historical context of current events. Happily, though, there’s one developer-oriented Microsoft online property with a memory. Channel 9, the video/podcast/screencast guerilla arm of the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), has been active since March 2004, and so far, what’s posted to Channel 9 stays on Channel 9. That’s how I found this wonderful juxtaposition: August 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT Callisto Project to launch 10 releases What may go unnoticed in next week’s Callisto release, a flurry of open source releases from the Eclipse Foundation, is BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tools), a project some consider the future direction of all Eclipse open source endeavors. June 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT Motorola joins Eclipse to boost mobile Linux apps Motorola will announce on Thursday that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer member and is proposing a project to boost mobile Linux application development. June 22, 6:00 a.m. PDT Eclipse to deliver on Callisto project The Eclipse Foundation on June 30 plans to roll out multiple Eclipse technologies under the banner of the open source software group's Callisto release. June 19, 2:00 p.m. PDT Open source education Graham Glass wrote a blog entry this week that touched on two of my favorite themes: open source and education. In the middle of a project based on the red-hot Ruby on Rails platform, he took time out to explain how he found, and worked around, a Rails limitation. Digging down to the roots of the problem took six hours of investigation. Crafting the work-around took just six lines of code. June 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun, Microsoft eye high-performance computing, AJAX Sun Microsystems and Microsoft are progressing with programming language research efforts aiming at high-performance computing (HPC) and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), respectively. June 2, 4:06 p.m. PDT Sun makes partial Eclipse move San Francisco -- Sun Microsystems, which still maintains it will not join the open source Eclipse Foundation, is nevertheless helping the organization out with one particular project. May 18, 11:30 a.m. PDT Sun: NetBeans adding JBoss, AMD San Francisco -- NetBeans is picking up JBoss and Advanced Micro Devices as members of the NetBeans community this week, according to an official at Sun Microsystems, which leads NetBeans. May 15, 4:10 p.m. PDT Motorola seeks mobile unity at JavaOne Motorola and Eclipse will use the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week to unveil open source initiatives in mobile development and modeling, respectively. May 15, 9:58 a.m. PDT ActiveGrid speeds Web application development “It’s really hard to build an HTML application that talks to one database, yet IT developers have a huge backlog of requested applications that talk to multiple databases,” says Peter Yared, CEO of ActiveGrid. His company aims to solve that problem, in part by doing away with the traditional three-tiered model of Web application development. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun’s jMaki does mix-and-match AJAX widgets Sun Microsystems unveiled technology for mixing and matching JavaScript widgets from different AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) frameworks at the AJAX Experience conference in San Francisco on Thursday May 11, 2:30 p.m. PDT Adobe aims to ease AJAX programming Adobe Systems on Thursday will debut technology intended to make AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) programming easier for Web designers. May 10, 9:01 p.m. PDT The slippery slope of open source If you work with open source software, you’ve been to the place I’ll describe in this column more times than you care to count. It always starts innocently enough. In my case, I needed to re-create a Linux-based development environment on my Apple PowerBook. The essential ingredients were Apache, Berkeley DB, mod_python, and libxml2. Pretty standard stuff, but I’d never assembled all the pieces on Mac OS X. April 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT Rootkit programs benefit from open source An active, open source development community and new tools are fueling stealth “rootkit” programs. April 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT AJAX in the spotlight next week and beyond When is a technology officially hot? Perhaps when it starts getting trade shows and other industry events named for it. If so, then AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web application scripting technology definitely fits this description. April 20, 4:15 p.m. PDT Open source goes big time with Red Hat-JBoss Deal Red Hat’s surprise announcement that it’s acquiring JBoss could upend accepted wisdom about both the size and function of open source software companies. Still, some customers are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the deal. April 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT PHP extended to IBM midrange line Extending Web enablement to IBM's midrange systems, Zend Technologies and IBM are porting PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) development offerings to IBM System i computers, formerly known as the iSeries and, prior to that, as the AS/400 line. April 3, 6:00 a.m. PDT Christian Science Monitor seeks closer technology relationships The Christian Science Monitor for the past nine years has been saddled with an inflexible content management system that makes it difficult to modify the newspaper’s Web site or deliver content to new devices, such as smartphones. That tool is emblematic of what Curt Edge sees as a larger issue at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, which publishes the Monitor in newspaper and online editions. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Orbitz gets up and running fast with open source When Orbitz launched its online travel site in June 2001, it had two well-entrenched competitors: Travelocity and Expedia. Orbitz's goal was to offer something better, quickly. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Frustration drove Owens Forest Products to open source The IT group at Owens Forest Products went the traditional route of many smaller companies: a custom ERP system using tools such as Microsoft SQL Server, ASP.Net, and Business Objects’ Crystal Reports. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT The move to open source is good for BZ Results Fast-moving technology that works is what BZ Results wants in its IT tools. That’s why CTO Rob Lackey’s policy is to make sure there is at least one open source bid for each project. “Commercial software can’t compete with the open source development effort,” Lackey says. He cites the frequent, fast security updates available for Apache servers as an example of how the open source community delivers faster than traditional providers. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Eclipse: Sun still welcome to join SANTA CLARA, CALIF. -- With enterprise application development largely dividing into two camps -- the Java-derived Eclipse faction on one side and Microsoft's .Net on the other -- it would seem that Java founder Sun Microsystems would align itself with the Eclipse Foundation. But Sun remains outside Eclipse, although an open invitation remains to participate in the open source tools organization. March 21, 1:00 p.m. PST Salesforce.com will join Eclipse Salesforce.com at the EclipseCon 2006 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., on Monday will announce it is joining the Eclipse Foundation, becoming the open source tools organization's first member from the hosted applications arena. March 20, 5:01 a.m. PST Eclipse conference features ALM, rich-client technologies The EclipseCon 2006 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., this week will highlight Eclipse projects in ALM (application lifecycle management), as well as endeavors in rich-client technology, PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor), and VoIP. March 20, 5:00 a.m. PST News analysis: Has Eclipse gotten too big? The Eclipse Foundation has seen a rapid expansion of its original mission in open source tooling. March 15, 10:30 a.m. PST The Internet is flat; AOL just doesn't know it In his bestselling book, The World Is Flat, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman observed that geography is no longer an advantage in today's globalized economy. There's no guaranteed "high ground"; a company in the United States doesn't have any inherent advantage over a company in Bangalore or Shanghai. March 13, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM lauds voice apps API IBM will announce on Friday open source software intended to improve the lot of Web developers building voice-enabled applications. March 2, 4:20 p.m. PST Getting smart about languages and libraries The ever-quotable Sean McGrath penned another of his trademark aphorisms this week: “The library IS the language.” By “library” he means the great edifices of reusable code that are, in their modern form, delivered as the core Java and .Net class libraries. Mastering them is a challenge that can take years, McGrath wrote. Mastering programming languages, he suggested, is comparatively trivial. February 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Interview: Tim Bray opens up about open source Tim Bray is director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, but is perhaps best known as a co-inventor of XML. He also has launched one of the first public Web search engines, Open Text Index, and founded Antarctica Systems, specializing in visualization-based business analytics. Additionally, Bray publishes a blog and co-chairs the IETF AtomPub (Atom Publishing Format and Publishing Protocol) Working Group, which is focused on technologies for editing Web resources such as blogs and wikis. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill spoke with Bray at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco last week about topics ranging from open source and blogs to document formats and, of course, XML. February 21, 4:02 p.m. PST Speeding retrieval with in-memory data management My first real Java application, back in 1997, was a servlet-based group scheduler. It wasn’t quite the smash hit that Hanson’s “MMMBop” was that summer, but as some of you may recall, it had its charms. February 15, 3:00 a.m. PST Krugle unveils a search engine for code I’m just back from the Demo 2006 conference in Phoenix. Demo, for those who don’t know, is a show owned by InfoWorld parent company IDG, and it gives tech startups six minutes to present their technology to an audience of corporate investors and venture capitalists. Of the 68 startups that took the stage this year, two really stood out. February 14, 3:00 a.m. PST Demo show unveils Krugle, Google for developers Opening day of Demo 06 turned the spotlight on open source with three companies leveraging the collaborative and community nature of the model to bring developers and users closer together. February 7, 4:30 p.m. PST Eclipse focuses on reports in new business intelligence tool Seeking to offer an industry standard for report development, the open source Eclipse Foundation on Monday is releasing Version 2.0 of its Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project. January 23, 3:00 a.m. PST Collaborative development package adds wikis VA Software has added wiki support to its SourceForge Enterprise Edition development environment for distributed developer teams. January 18, 4:40 p.m. PST Eclipse touts Web, J2EE development in tools release Bolstering development of Web and enterprise J2EE applications in the open source arena, the Eclipse Foundation on Monday is set to release Version 1.0 of its Eclipse Web Tools Platform. December 19, 5:00 a.m. PST Tools wrap: NextApp, Compuware to unveil products NextApp and Compuware next week are set to boost offerings for application development in the areas of AJAX (Asynchronous Java plus XML) and application quality management, respectively. December 8, 5:00 a.m. PST The coming software revolution If Marc Benioff, CEO and founder of Salesforce.com, is the biggest spokesperson for SaaS (software as a service), then Greg Gianforte, CEO and founder of SaaS CRM competitor RightNow Technologies, is in the avant-garde of that software revolution, adding open source to the war on packaged apps. The difference between the two may offer us a peek into the future of IT infrastructures. December 6, 3:00 a.m. PST JBoss buys former HP middleware JBoss Inc. has added to its Java middleware stack by acquiring transaction processing software from Arjuna Technologies Ltd. and Hewlett-Packard Co., JBoss announced Monday. December 5, 3:35 a.m. PST C and C++ give way to managed code One important trend highlighted by this year’s research is the ongoing transition away from C and C++ -- the two languages that have been programmers’ mainstays for many years -- in favor of Java, and, more recently, C#. This shift might seem peculiar to some. After all, C remains the implementation language of choice for Linux, the Apache Web server, the MySQL database, and other key open source projects, which points out the fundamental position of C: It’s a terrific language for systems programming and infrastructure-level software, but it’s less suited to the needs of straightforward applications. November 30, 12:30 p.m. PST Concerns raised over Perl security flaw Dyad Security on Wednesday posted an advisory about a potentially serious flaw in the open-source scripting language Perl but some security experts say they find the vulnerability unlikely. November 30, 6:29 a.m. PST Eclipse developers to get AJAX access Developers accustomed to the Eclipse open source tools platform will have access to AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript plus XML) functionality from Genuitec. November 29, 5:00 a.m. PST Velocity Java engine picks up speed Providing an alternative to JavaServer Pages (JSP) Web development and the PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) scripting language, Apache's Jakarta Velocity tools team is touting open source tools to function with the Velocity Java template engine. November 14, 4:30 p.m. PST Developing with open source, risk-free Picture this scenario: Suppose Company A acquires Company B, a hardware vendor that incorporates the Linux kernel into its products. After the acquisition is complete, however, an unfortunate thing happens. Linux developers bring suit against Company B, alleging violations of the Gnu GPL (General Public License). As part of the settlement, Company A agrees to open source all of Company B's code, even the previously proprietary parts. November 7, 3:00 a.m. PST BEA releases "Blended Environment" for developers BEA Systems on Monday is releasing BEA Workshop 3.0, a version of the company's IDE that provides tools for a "Blended Environment," according to BEA. November 6, 9:01 p.m. PST > Application development > Developer tools |
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