Development software that creates programs for several computer environments. Its output may require additional conversions or translations to produce executable programs.
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- Roboton Web Control Toolkit 1.1.4 (Windows)
- Roboton Web Control Toolkit provides a browser independent platform for rendering, manipulating and/or adding extensible features over an image in any Asp.Net application. ImageCropper provides an easy way to select rectangular area of an image. It can also provide image cropping functionality with the help of ImageRenderer control. ImageRenderer is...
- Software downloads 2009-08-15
- The grand Google plan against the whole Microsoft stack
- The grand Google plan against the whole Microsoft stackThe problem with this is vendor lock-inYea, sure you get vendor lock-in anyway with Microsoft, Oracle, whatever...right? But this is alot more vertical. With Google, everything is in the cloud, which they host. Your custom applications will have be...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-15
- Excelsior JET 6.5 (Windows)
- Excelsior JET is a complete solution for acceleration, protection, and deployment of your Java applications, certified Java Compatible on a number of Windows and Linux platforms. Excelsior JET Optimizer converts your application's classes and jars into highly optimized Intel x86 code and creates a native executable for Microsoft Windows or...
- Software downloads 2009-06-25
- RFID Middleware Evaluation Toolkit Based on a Virtual Reader Emulator
- RFID middleware is required and applied in various RFID environments. It spends too much cost and human resource for test function of RFID middleware to install RFID infrastructures in real RFID environment. To reduce installation cost, the paper suggests architecture design of RFID Middleware Evaluation Toolkit Based On A Virtual...
- White papers 2009-05-31
- Google I/O: How do I code thee? Let me count the ways
- Dan Morrill presented a great talk this morning on the 3 different ways to code for Android: Managed Code Dalvik, Ajax, and Native Code. To demonstrate the different ways Dan decided to write the same app , a k-means clustering application, 3 different ways. The first way...
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for us
- Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for usIsn't the main advantage of "The Cloud" being Cross Platform Comp.The main reasons I can think of to use the cloud rather than a desktop app is being able to access from basically any web connected computer. If you have to have...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-27
- Sizing, configuration, and the Unix reseller hurdle
- Sizing, configuration, and the Unix reseller hurdleIncompetent is as incompentent doesI saw an interesting job ad: http://detroit.craigslist.org/tch/982155526.htmlI contacted the guy to find out how someone with 3 years of experience could possibly be able to consult on infrastructure. Not to mention the whopping 55k salary (with 50% travel). No wonder...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-14
- Extranet collaboration platforms - coming soon, but many-to-many problem remains
- In our conversations with many information and knowledge management professionals, it's clear that their distributed and multicompany teams need better extranet collaboration tools. And they feel the problem is only getting worse as companies go virtual, global, distributed, outsourced, green, travel-less, and partnered, thus driving the need...
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 1
- As I mentioned last week I've started learning more about developing for the Apple iPhone. This week I'll be sharing my experiences during a 5-day course on iPhone programming presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. In particular, I'll be pointing out differences between Android and iPhone development. ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Citrix makes "Kensho" preview available
- Citrix has delivered a technical preview of a toolkit that allows developers to create and deploy OVF-based virtual appliances that run on multiple virtualization hypervisors. The toolkit, which was introduced last July, is code named "Kensho" and provides the ability to create, import and deploy application workloads...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Microsoft unveils Application Server License Mobility change to ease some virtualization headaches
- Microsoft has quietly unveiled its much anticipated licensing change to ease virtualization: Application Server License Mobility. The licensing plan, quietly launched in a licensing brief on the company web site tonight, now allows customers to freely move VMs, virtual workloads -- and their respective licenses -- across multiple servers...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- News to know: Microsoft; Oracle; SAP; Vista SP1 video
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft mashes up multiple natural-user-interface inputs How will Microsoft spend its multicore millions? More details emerge on the Microsoft Sphere Larry Dignan: The future of computing: Multiple cores, multiple inputs Ryan Naraine: Evilgrade: Exploit...
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Windows 7 to have support for Virtual Hard Disks
- Windows 7 to have support for Virtual Hard DisksVHD stands from...vaporware HD.It's a just a new marketing ploy meant to keep M$ relevant.But which SKUs will have that support?I found out the hard way that different Vista SKUs give you different disk capabilities when I tried to span two hard...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 vs. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2
- Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 vs. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2VMware has even more managabilityYou have the additional capability of managing VMware Server (2.0 beta) with their enterprise-class tools in the Virtual Infrastructure suite. (That means no web front-end!) You can also automate actions without purchasing VI...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- XP SP3 available for download from Microsoft
- XP SP3 available for download from MicrosoftCheersI've been waiting all day over here in Australia (its 8:30 at night here right now) for the release of SP3 so cheers for the link mate :DPreviously Download was 544MB, now only 316MB?Adrian,Thanks for the direct link, but why is this download only...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- 52+5 reasons to go to Google I/O
- On May 28th and 29th, Googlers from all over the world will converge on Moscone West for Google I/O, the company's largest ever developers conference. At last count, Google is sending 52 employees to speak at the San Francisco event, plus 5 more experts from outside the company. I'll be...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Defeating the Same Origin Policy part 2
- In my first post in this series, I discussed the Same Origin Policy and how it protects us from some very serious attacks, the dangers of domain name based trust, and how to attack implementations of the Same Origin Policy within the Java Virtual Machine JVM. In order to demonstrate...
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Sun acquires innotek
- I just read the notice that Sun had acquired innotek, the creators of Virtualbox, a virtual machine software product. Before I had a chance to really look into this move, I wondered why Sun would acquire another virtual machine software product when it had a program to integrate the Xen...
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- How Android works: The big picture
- [This article is part of a continuing series on Android, Google's new mobile phone platform. It is excerpted from an upcoming book. --Ed] Some parts of Android will be familiar, such as the Linux Kernel, OpenGL, and the SQL database. Others may be completely foreign, such as...
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- InSTEDD applies Web 2.0 to help save lives
- The Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases and Disaster InSTEDD project launches this week with a goal of using Internet-based...
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
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