Tag: DEVELOPMENT

IBM has announced that it is joining the OpenOffice.org community. The company will contribute code already developed for Lotus Notes and will assist development in an ongoing basis. From a user perspective, there's no word on what tangible changes we'll see in OpenOffice.org in the near future. But open source development has never been a case of "too many cooks spoil the broth," so we're going ...

Two weeks ago we saw the first wave of third party applications for the iPhone. But because Apple has yet to open up the device and provides an API (Application Programming Interface) for software developers, making third party applications right now is not for the faint hearted or even regular developers. A couple of weeks ago in MacBreak Weekly, Leo Laporte called for Apple to open up the iPhone ...

No Apple hasn't finally given us what we want by releasing an official iPhone SDK so developers can create true apps for the phone, but that doesn't seem to be holding back enterprising hackers. Erica Sadun at our sister site The Unofficial Apple Weblog has released a basic text editor and even a screenshot app for the iPhone, while Gizmodo has MobileTerminal, a command line app that should allow ...

Ever wanted to get started with developing applications (be it on the desktop or on line) in a Windows environment? For those using Windows on a day-to-day basis may well be aware that Microsoft's development environment can be somewhat expensive to get into. However that is about to change a little, as Microsoft is releasing Visual Studio Express Editions, allowing you to delve into coding, ...

With it getting harder for U.S. companies to recruit foreign nationals for jobs in the programming and engineering, could they all start a shift towards opening facilities in Canada? Microsoft has announced that they will be opening a software development center in Vancouver. This will be set up due to the fact that it's getting extremely difficult to employ skilled workers with the present ...

EasyPHP is a great little web server package, as you might expect, it has the usual LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack, with phpMyAdmin, and a few other things. The only issue you might have with the EasyPHP 1.8 release is that it uses PHP 4. This may not be a problem unless you really need some of those sweet new features from PHP5. No word yet on when the folks at EasyPHP will be ...

So you use basecamp for project management or Google's apps, or something else, but how do you track your time on a project? basecamp offers time-tracking, but you have to pay a bit for that feature. Any cheapskates out there who like to get something for nothing, even if it means remembering yet another logon to yet another website? Many of us would jump at the chance, it isn't like any of us ...

There are many advantages to designing with Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is extremely easy to learn and rework once a basic site framework has been established. Websites, or website components can easily be changed into something totally different just by swapping a single CSS file, or a line within a CSS file. CSS designers always seem to have a few different elements that they commonly use over ...

Developer Andres Taylor drops some serious science with "Top ten things ten years of professional software development has taught me." There are some real gems on this list, and if you're a developer it's a must read. Among our favorites, "Learn to Say No" --something every developer should learn before they burn themselves out -- Also, "If everything is equally important, then nothing is ...

The beta release of My.Netscape drops tomorrow as a new, improved personalized start page. The enhanced UI is clean and clutter free with no ads (so far). You have access to almost 100 modules to customize your page, including our very own Download Squad module (shameless plug warning) and you can add your own RSS feeds too. There are however some "not yet's" you might find yourself wishing for, ...

Get badged, by going to badged.net, where you can simply build a custom badge widget for your site or blog. The list of available badges you can include in your custom widget is pretty good: Digg This Story Sphere It Add to Technorati Favorites View Blog Reactions (via Technorati) Add to del.icio.us Add to Furl Add to Netscape Add to Yahoo! Myweb Add to Google Bookmarks ...

NSFW (Not Safe For Work), a universal sign that something is objectionable or inappropriate or offensive online, is now going to become a part of many web developer's standard coding techniques. The idea is to put the rel="nsfw" attribute in link (a href) tags, much like the currently widely used rel="nofollow" attribute. This NSFW attribute will denote objectionable content that might get you in ...

Script.aculo.us is an amazing framework for enriching your website's user experience very easily. Built on top of the very popular prototype javascript framework, scriptaculous makes AJAX cake, and gives everyone the power to have a sexy AJAX-powered website, yes everyone. Scriptaculous is a tiny (140kb) javascript framework that gives you the power of effects, several dynamic data components, and ...

If you do hard-core web development, which do you use? IE 6 or IE 7? I would rather use Firefox, but I have to develop for IE, since most of the world still uses it. Sure IE7 is new, IE6 is old, and they are similar, yet it is tough to develop for both, especially when you can't really install both together on the same machine. Microsoft is going to help you out with that. On November 30th, ...

One thing I didn't know about AIM Triton before now is that the whole thing is built on AOL's Boxely, a toolkit for building full-fledged desktop apps with JavaScript and XML. This probably sounds familiar, especially if you're familiar with Mozilla's XUL (which Firefox is built on) or Microsoft's Avalon/XAML. Boxely was created by notable Netscape and Firefox developer Joe Hewitt. Hewitt has ...