http://www.devmarch.com where developers meet development http://www.devmarch.com/images/devmarch-logo.jpg http://www.devmarch.com 195 106 enhttp://www.developermarch.com/.NET/exclusives/developers-are-key-to-success-of-windows-phone-7.htmlWhen Apple launched the iPhone, Microsoft]]>2010-09-08 04:06:03Indu Brito189http://www.developermarch.com/Rich Web/exclusives/adobe-flash-101-speeds-up-mac-and-shows-love.htmlIn the midst of the Apple vs. Adobe war, a phoenix seems to have risen from the ashes. Enter Flash 10.1 on Mac OS X. After years of poor performance and the long raging Apple and Adobe battle, hardware acceleration for Adobe Flash finally got the green signal. The Adobe team seems to have really heard out the developer community this season. With the 10.1 release they have aimed to correct several of the previous Flash glitches. Adobe says developers can look forward to no more bogging down of browsers, CPU utilization reduction (up to two-thirds when GPU hardware acceleration is active) and eliminating the iPhone it runs on a gamut of handheld devices.]]>2010-09-08 04:05:45Indu Brito188http://www.developermarch.com/Open Source/exclusives/eclipses-largest-gravy-train-helios-arrives.htmlAmongst the colossal additions and falls that 2010 has witnessed, the Helios technology from the Eclipse line is the largest and includes 39 different project teams, over 33 million lines of code and the work of 490 committers. Codenamed Helios, the current release train comes loaded with developer delights comprising projects based on open source, Java based Eclipse IDE, and more features including improved support in the JavaScript Development Tools project (JSDT) including a JavaScript debug framework, Eclipse Marketplace Client that makes it easier to find and install Eclipse solutions, the new support for Git, a popular distributed version control (DVCS), and so on.]]>2010-09-08 04:05:32Indu Brito187http://www.developermarch.com/Open Source/exclusives/google-ide-for-the-non-coder-android-developer.htmlGood news for the non-coder developer - Google has released the App Inventor for Android. The dragging and dropping of visual blocks of code enable the developer to build applications. App Inventor "makes it easy for anyone -- programmers and non-programmers, professionals and students -- to create mobile applications for Android-powered devices".]]>2010-09-08 04:05:14Indu Brito186http://www.developermarch.com/Java/exclusives/java-open-source-soa--ws-on-top-of-indian-developers-radar.htmlHimanshu Goyal heads Academic Initiative, developerWorks and Globalization initiatives for IBM India/South Asia. Under these initiatives, he is responsible to evangelize, skill and certify on the IBM Software to Engineering Students, Faculties, Developers and senior IT professionals in the Industry. Under Globalization he is responsible for the availability of IBM software in local languages in India/South Asia. Himanshu spoke to DeveloperMarch about the 27-city road show ]]>2010-05-26 04:19:22Indu Brito185http://www.developermarch.com/Open Source/exclusives/google-coming-to-your-idiot-box.htmlGoogle is set to invade your living room as the company puts its finishing touches on technology that lets software developers build applications for televisions in much the same way as they do for smartphones. Google is planning to unveil an Android-based 'Google TV' at the Google I/O conference, which open in May, San Francisco. Intel and Sony are also involved in the platform, which is rumoured to be open source, in keeping with the Android operating system. "(Google) hopes the move will spur the same outpouring of creativity that consumers have seen in applications for cellphones."]]>2010-05-05 23:28:59Indu Brito183http://www.developermarch.com/Rich Web/exclusives/symbian-to-fully-endorse-html-5.htmlSymbian has released a set of web application development tools for the recently open-sourced Symbian platform. These tools aim to aid the development, distribution and installation of web applications on Symbian devices, using technologies such as HTML, JavaScript and CSS. "Symbian Foundation is fully embracing HTML5. Symbian^4 will take a big step forward and we]]>2010-05-05 23:28:00Indu Brito184http://www.developermarch.com/.NET/exclusives/sugarcrm-now-on-windows-azure.htmlMicrosoft and SugarCRM began working together in 2006 to deliver Sugar applications on top of Microsoft technology. SugarCRM supports IIS as well as Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Server. The two companies have continued to collaborate as part of the Interop Vendor Alliance. In August, SugarCRM announced Sugar Community Edition on the Microsoft Web Platform, a framework for developing, deploying and hosting Web applications.]]>2010-05-05 23:17:01Indu Brito182http://www.developermarch.com/Java/exclusives/c-programming-knocks-out-java-from-1-position.htmlAfter more than 4 years C is back at position number 1 in the TIOBE index. The scores for C have been pretty constant through the years, varying between the 15% and 20% market share for almost 10 years. So the main reason for C's number 1 position is not C's uprise, but the decline of its competitor Java. Java has a long-term downward trend. It is losing ground to other languages running on the JVM. An example of such a language is JavaFX script that is now approaching the top 20.]]>2010-04-09 02:57:13Indu Brito181http://www.developermarch.com/Open Source/exclusives/rim-updates-for-java-and-web-tools-make-blackberry-app-development-easier.htmlThe BlackBerry Java Plug-In for Eclipse v1.1 and the BlackBerry Web Plug-in v2.0 offer new capabilities that make it even easier to create feature-rich applications. The BlackBerry Widget SDK (Software Development Kit) v1.0 and the BlackBerry(R) Java SDK v5.0, which includes more than 20,000 APIs, provide unparalleled access to BlackBerry(R) smartphone hardware features, native BlackBerry software applications and other unique system capabilities of the BlackBerry Application Platform.]]>2010-04-09 02:50:51Indu Brito180