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Article | 13/09/2010 Adobe adds HTML5 controls to Illustrator
Adobe Systems has released an add-on package for its Illustrator CS5 design editor that will allow developers to export their designs to the Web and m...
Article | 3/09/2010 Intel upgrades parallel development suite
Intel will release on Thursday an upgrade to its parallel development toolset for Windows application developers, adding both a tool to walk developer...
Article | 2/09/2010 Google technologist derides Oracle's lack of developer focus
When it bowed out of the JavaOne conference this year, Google cited Oracle's lawsuit over Java use in Google Android. But one Google technologist sugg...
Article | 2/09/2010 ActiveState prepares Python for databases
ActiveState has updated its distributions of the Python programming language so that they provide developers easier access to databases, as well as ne...
Article | 1/09/2010 Alcatel-Lucent buys mobile apps dev-tool vendor OpenPlug
Alcatel-Lucent has acquired OpenPlug, the creator of ELIPS Studio, a tool that allows developers write an application once, and then translate it into...
Article | 2/09/2010 Oracle giving student coders free access to JavaOne
Oracle is hoping to entice a younger generation of Java programmers into its fold by offering students complimentary admission to the upcoming JavaOne...
Article | 20/08/2010 Vim editor updated with modern language support
The latest edition of the widely used Vim text editor now supports both the Lua programming language as well as the latest versions of Python and Perl...
Article | 19/08/2010 Google adds multitenancy to App Engine SDK
The latest version of the SDK (Software Development Kit) for Google's cloud platform App Engine comes with multitenancy capability, the company said i...
Article | 4/08/2010 Microsoft simplifies Visual Studio
Microsoft is gearing up to release a version of its Visual Studio integrated developer environment that it promises will be easy enough for even busin...
Article | 23/07/2010 Google executive frustrated by Java, C++ complexity
Today's commercial-grade programming languages -- C++ and Java, in particular -- are way too complex and not adequately suited for today's computing e...
Article | 21/07/2010 Twitter's tech problems take a toll on developers
The recurrent technical problems that have affected Twitter for the past seven weeks have also taken a toll on developers of external applications bui...
Article | 20/07/2010 Microsoft updates Visual Studio Productivity Power tools
Microsoft this week updated its Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools, adding extensions and fixing bugs.
Article | 14/07/2010 Developers tepid on Windows Phone 7 mobile app beta kit
Making a critical move in mobile application development, Microsoft on Monday shipped a beta version of its Windows&nbsp; Phone 7 Developer Tools,...
Article | 7/07/2010 Microsoft sharpening Razor view engine for ASP.Net
Microsoft is developing a "view engine" for its ASP.Net Web development platform, optimized around HTML generation via a code-focused templating appro...
Article | 3/07/2010 Adobe Flex to gain mobile app capabilities
Adobe, with the planned "Hero" version of its open source Flex framework for building Web applications, will feature mobile application-building capab...