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- Free Microsoft open-source content management app to get its debut next week
- Very interestingStrange - Ballmer was all excited about how the SharePoint 2010 team focused on internet facing capabilities. Why play with Orchard if you can get all the features CMS and more with a hosted version of SP2010 at a fairly cheap investment?I guess for small businesses who just...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Visifire 2.3.1 (Mac)
- Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components - powered by Microsoft Silverlight. With Visifire you can create and embed visually stunning animated Silverlight Charts within minutes. Visifire is easy to use and independent of the server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-04
- Visifire 2.3.0 (Windows)
- Visifire gives you a set of open source data visualization components that are powered by Microsoft Silverlight and WPF. With Visifire you can create and embed visually stunning animated Silverlight Charts within minutes. Visifire is easy to use and independent of the server side technology. It can be used with...
- Software downloads 2009-10-31
- Engine Yard raises $19 million in VC funding
- Engine Yard, a Ruby on Rails developer, raised $19 million in a third round of venture capital. The company, which has raised $37 million to date, received funding from DAG Ventures, Bay Partners and Presidio Ventures. Benchmark Capital, Amazon and New Enterprise Associates---all previous investors---also participated in...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Pacu 1.0 (Mac)
- Pacu is the lightweight source code editor. It provides a deeply integrated video terminal emulation, which accelerates command line driven workflows by detecting compiler and log messages. The user interface is the least intrusive possible. All functions are fully keyboard accessible and have been designed to fit on small screens...
- Software downloads 2009-09-25
- JumpBox for Ruby on Rails Deployment 1.1.4 (Windows)
- Ruby on Rails is a framework that allows a web developer to rapidly design web applications which are capable of leveraging database back-ends with minimal effort. Written in Ruby, Rails prefers convention and simple patterns to facilitate rapid development rather than relying on a myriad of complex and intermingling configurations...
- Software downloads 2009-09-21
- RubyStack 1.6-0 (Windows)
- An installer that greatly simplifies the installation of Ruby on Rails and its runtime dependencies. Ruby on Rails is a full-stack MVC framework for database-backed Web applications that is optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration. BitNami RubyStack application...
- Software downloads 2009-09-21
- Komodo IDE 5.2.0 (Mac)
- Komodo IDE is the first unified workspace for end-to-end development of dynamic web applications. A rich feature set for client-side Ajax languages such as CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML, coupled with advanced support for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl, enables developers to quickly and easily...
- Software downloads 2009-09-15
- JumpBox for Ruby on Rails Deployment 1.1.4 (Mac)
- Ruby on Rails is a framework that allows a web developer to rapidly design web applications which are capable of leveraging database back-ends with minimal effort. Written in Ruby, Rails prefers convention and simple patterns to facilitate rapid development rather than relying on a myriad of complex and intermingling configurations...
- Software downloads 2009-09-14
- Visifire 2.2.6 (Mac)
- Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components - powered by Microsoft Silverlight. With Visifire you can create and embed visually stunning animated Silverlight Charts within minutes. Visifire is easy to use and independent of the server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP,...
- Software downloads 2009-08-21
- Apple's massive new data center portends a cloudy future
- I believe that if you look at Apple past historiesin terms of retail outlets and resellers, convetions, et cetera, in which Apple has cut all support for those venues and have undertaken those segments themselves, my guess would be is that they are planning to host everything that is outsourced...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-19
- VMware's vision: Clouds everywhere
- While I was making my way out to San Francisco for OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/Cloudworld, VMware issued a press release stating that they were acquiring Spring Source, a supplier of Platform as a Service offerings. This, I believe, opens the door for VMware to offer a nearly complete, end-to-end solution...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- VMware completes the PaaS to vCloud
- If you’ve been wondering why an infrastructure leader would acquire a developer framework, the answer is a bit more complex that what shows on the surface â€" and a lot more strategic. As stated in the press release and in the blogs by VMware CTO Steve Herrod and SpringSource CEO...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Geek Sheet: Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2
- It's been a while since we've had a hardcore Geek Sheet installment, and I promise that this one will be a real winner. Some of you may be aware that the updated Hyper-V bare-metal hypervisor virtualization layer in Microsoft's upcoming Windows Server 2008 R2 (Which is due...
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- News to know: Best hardware; Malware; Netbooks; Social CRM
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Paul Greenberg:Â Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit...
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Frugal Friday: Optimum Ultra and DOCSIS 3.0, Crapware, When to replace a PC, Engine Yard and Ruby on Rails
- Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss my adventures in Optimum Ultra 100Mbps cable broadband service (and experience the hilarity of early adoption when my VOIP cuts out 3 times during the broadcast) the bane of crapware, the decision of when to replace a small...
- Blog posts 2009-07-04
- Helping corporations leverage the Web, using open source and the cloud
- What do open source and cloud computing have in common? For Navid Safabakhsh, principal at San Francisco and Philadelphia-based interactive web development agency Freshout, it's that both technologies are low-cost, high-yield solutions to help corporations leverage the customer data they collect on the Web. ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- TIBCO takes PaaS plus integration capabilities to global enterprises via their choice of clouds
- Combining platform as a service PaaS with a built-in ability to integrate and manage hybrid cloud deployments, TIBCO Software today threw its hat in the cloud computing ring by taking its middleware and Java development and deployment platforms to new heights. Coinciding with the JavaOne conference and...
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Visifire 2.2.2 (Mac)
- Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components - powered by Microsoft Silverlight. With Visifire you can create and embed visually stunning animated Silverlight Charts within minutes. Visifire is easy to use and independent of the server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP,...
- Software downloads 2009-05-29
- WebDNA Developer Edition 6.2 (Mac)
- WebDNA allows the developer to build a wide range of applications, from basic form-to-email to highly sophisticated database-driven intranet sites. While it is not a framework like Ruby on Rails, WebDNA replaces multiple instructions with a single one, allowing the developer to code as much as 3 times faster than...
- Software downloads 2009-05-26
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