Application development

Microsoft with its Script Junkie Web site seeks to enable developers to better navigate Web technologies such as HTML, JavaSCript, and CSS, a Microsoft official said in a blog.

SapphireSteel positions its technology as enabling an alternative to Microsoft's Silverlight RIA platform

Java event will be combined with Oracle OpenWorld and Develop conferences in first year under stewardship of Oracle


Practical, reality-based ways teams can make progress on improving their code's quality.

RAD Studio XE features former Borland tools aimed at cloud deployments

VMforce collaboration will be most useful for customers with existing Salesforce deployments, but can technically be used to build any Java application.

Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 works with the company's Team Foundation Server 2010 ALM server and can be downloaded from the Visual Studio Extension Manager.

A future version of 3D Flash will be on display at the Adobe Max conference in October.

Java development has supplanted IT security as the most difficult skill set for hiring managers to locate.


Adobe, with the planned "Hero" version of its open source Flex framework for building Web applications, will feature mobile application-building capabilities.