The World Wide Web Consortium said earlier this year that they'd start inviting corporations to buy sponsorship packages that promote the company and associate its brand and offerings alongside the W3C's mission. The money will be used to "W3C will use...
0 replies - 2095 views - 10/19/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
The new release of the Ruby on Rails web development framework, version 3.1, will feature HTTP support. This additional support will serve to improve overall page performance by allowing the browser to "get expensive assets like stylesheets and...
0 replies - 21434 views - 04/25/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
The new Google Chrome
is all about simplicity and ease of use. Users can easily perform
simple tasks like importing bookmarks and setting their browser's
homepage. Sandboxing has been extended to Flash Player, increasing
overall security while adding...
0 replies - 23085 views - 03/09/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
In their ongoing efforts to create a more dynamic coding experience, and
to bring current users of alternative platforms into the fold, Adobe is
announcing the release of the first public beta for ColdFusion Builder
2. Adobe's ColdFusion Builder is a...
2 replies - 7984 views - 03/03/11 by Katie Mckinsey in News
The assertion made by enterprises prior to examining a
“rebuild” of existing web applications (i.e. HTML 4, XHTML, JavaScript,
Applets, Struts, etc) is that the average employee has seen the rise of a new
standard of expectations set by Web 2.0...
1 replies - 11446 views - 02/28/11 by Kevin Ruse in Articles
It was very surprising this week to find that Oracle employees actually responded to some of the bad press surrounding their company as of late - namely, the criticism surrounding Doug Lea's departure and the JCP. Oracle's response to Lea's departure...
0 replies - 18518 views - 10/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Adobe wasn't kidding when they said they were riding the HTML5 bandwagon as hard as anybody right now. Rather than compete with the new web standard, Adobe has created their own HTML5 video player widget which has total CSS customizability and...
0 replies - 20757 views - 10/24/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
While it
certainly didn't hurt Adobe's stock prices, which rose by 11.5% this
week, the rumors that Microsoft is in talks to buy Adobe are "nonsense"
according to many sources
at both companies. The rumor came from a New York Times article...
0 replies - 15275 views - 10/08/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Since 1997, Linux inventor Linux Torvalds has lived and worked in the USA, but today we found out that he officially became a US citizen last week. The news came up in a conversation on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Torvalds mentioned he'd be getting his...
2 replies - 19294 views - 09/14/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Adobe Labs has announced an HTML5/CSS3/SVG pack for Illustrator this week. The add-on is for the most recent class of the Creative Suite, CS5. It helps designers easily create web content for various form factors. Check out Mordy Golding's video...
0 replies - 15770 views - 09/13/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The RabbitMQ messaging system, which was recently be acquired by VMware's SpringSource, has reached version 2.0. The AMQP-based system has a new persister that's only bound by disk capacity and a server that optimizes memory usage - giving RabbitMQ more...
0 replies - 19426 views - 08/25/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
By introducing a central licensing server on the Android Marketplace, Google hopes to provide an effective method for protecting Android apps that can currently be copied pretty easily. The licensing service works with almost every version of Android, all...
0 replies - 10732 views - 07/28/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Adobe Flex 4 provides a lot of
new features including a component architecture, CSS improvements, MX backward
compatibility, new state mechanisms, and a new graphic markup language called
FXG. Along with the Flex 4 SDK, Adobe Flash Builder 4 has improvements...
0 replies - 34239 views - 07/20/10 by Renaun Erickson in Articles
SourceForge has just unveiled their all-new forge development platform, SourceForge 2.0, and the first organization to open a forge on it was Adobe. The new forge, now in open beta, showcases the extended flexibility and collaboration facilities of...
2 replies - 5484 views - 07/15/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Most Flex (and AIR)
developers like to build, compile and package their applications using Adobe’s
Flash Builder (formerly known as Flex Builder). A few use alternative IDE(s) like FDT and IntelliJ IDEA. A
smaller few bravely get everything done without...
8 replies - 39987 views - 06/28/10 by Shashank Tiwari in Articles
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