Sun Microsystems announced the release of the Beta release of their new Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6). They called the effort Project Mustang. They’ve added some features and improved on others to improve developers’ Java experience.
Yahoo Opens User Interface To Developers
Yahoo has followed up the opening of some of their web services APIs with a pair of programming libraries for developers to use.
Flex 2.0 Beta Open To Developers
Adobe Systems released their Flex 2.0 Beta to developers to play with last week. The aim is to improve the offerings for developers to generate rich Internet applications. This combined with the Flash Player 8.5 release, they say the products will allow businesses to engage users more effectively and increase productivity while delivering stronger business results.
Linux Developers Tackle GPL 3
Some developers in the Linux community have taken the discussion about the new General Public License terms to a contentious point: using it for the next Linux kernel, while a greater challenge over DRM looms.
Asset Management For Web Developers
When building large scale database driven web applications, which require the development effort of numerous individuals and interoperating teams…
Alexa Embraces Web Developers
Amazon.com’s Alexa unit has been turned into a web service, to allow developers API access to the search engine’s database.
J2ME Developers and Programmers: The Mobile Game Industry Winners
Who could have predicted that the 80’s game of Pong would spawn a multi-billion dollar gaming industry complete with PCs, PDAs, and wireless phones that are specifically designed to handle the speed and graphics that today’s games demand?
Microsoft Expression Could Sparkle For Developers
The company’s purchase of vector graphic design tool Expression gets a big debut at PDC 2005.
Sun Opens Some Java Code For Developers
The JavaOne Conference for Java developers opens today in San Francisco, with Sun giving a welcome gift of source code to attendees.
Respect for Web Developers
Back when I was first paid to build web-based applications (around 1998 or so), the world of Web Development as we know it today did not exist.