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Microsoft Team Cuts Web Deployment Time by 48 Percent, Becomes More Competitive

Windows Live Social Networking, a development group within Microsoft, manages a collection of social networking Web sites that are used by more than 100 million people. The team wanted to upgrade its Web-hosting environment, which was based on Internet Information Services IIS 6.0, because the processes for developing and deploying...

Tags: Microsoft IIS 7.0, Web, Team, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft IIS Server, Developer Productivity, Social Networking, Team Management, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Case studies 2009-09-01

6th Sense gives deep insight into developer productivity

6th Sense gives deep insight into developer productivityIt's the SYSTEM, stupid!Sheesh! Anyone even slightly involved with people productivity knows - as Deming told us 50 years ago - that the system is responsible for 90% the productivity of the individuals working within it.Pretending that things are otherwise might shake...

Tags: developer productivity

Discussion threads 2006-08-10

Hosting Provider Achieves Fourfold Gain in Developer Productivity, Threefold Increase in Scalability

Two months into a planned five-month development effort, Affinity Internet began to have serious doubts about its ability to quickly develop a control panel interface using PHP on Red Hat Linux, the company's existing development platform. Issues included limited developer productivity and a suboptimal user experience. By switching to Microsoft...

Tags: Affinity Internet Inc., Scalability, Developer Productivity, Scripting Languages, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Servers, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware

Case studies

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Rapid PHP 2010 10.0.119 (Windows)

Rapid PHP editor is a PHP editor with a debugger and UTF-8 support. Features enable you to create and edit not only PHP, but also HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript code, while integrated tools allow you to validate, reuse, navigate, and format your code. Whether you are a professional developer...

Tags: PHP, Microsoft Windows, Editor, Blumentals Software, Rapid PHP Editor, Scripting Languages, CSS, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-26

Salesforce Chatter: Facebook for the Enterprise

Salesforce is announcing today a Salesforce Chatter, an enteprise collaboration application akin to Facebook. The move puts SalesForce in competition with offerings from other providers, including IBM Lotus. Here's what's being delivered. Features: Profiles: Just like profiles on popular consumer-oriented social networking sites, Salesforce Chatter profiles include...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Platform, App, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Apple's app approval revolt: Will it matter? Maybe

Once somebody matches the ease of the App store,Create a desktop application which makes it brain-dead simple to buy, install, arrange, and sync software and multimedia content with the Droid and it will take off like crazy. That's about the only thing the iPhone has over the Droid at this...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Digital music, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Active4D X 5.0r8 (Mac)

Active4D is the ultimate 4D web development environment, offering unparalleled power and simplicity. Nothing else comes close. Out of the box, Active4D gives the 4D web developer: A ready to run HTTP server with virtual hosting and advanced security features A blazing fast, fully dynamic embedded scripting engine which executes...

Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Victory-Heart Productions, Active4D, Channel Management, Web Servers, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Why IT can't seem to deliver measurable productivity

Sounds like excuses to me.If it can't be shown on the bottom line, its useless.IT really needs to be aligned with business needs.From what I have heard talking with several managers, IT needs to come out out the silo and focus on delivering business needs and services. From what...

Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, IT Operations, information technology, customer service

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Radialix 2.09.04 (Windows)

Radialix 2 is an easy, technically elegant tool for binary localization of applications and resource files. It allows the user to localize executable files (PE32, PE32+), .NET assemblies, resources and INI files. The program offers a convenient WYSIWYG editor and a powerful arsenal of productivity tools, such as translation simulation,...

Tags: Assembly, Microsoft Windows, Radialix Software, Radialix 2, .Net, Productivity, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-08

Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services

DumbWhat a dumb move their Accounting software was one of the best products they had.Anyone notice a trend?Dumping Money, dumping Office Accounting, and all at a time when the Feds are increasingly regulating Financial firms. While MS is clearly not a "Financial" Company it looks alot like they are...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Office Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Law Enforcement Solution Developer Revitalizes Approach at Technology Center

Total Computer Group develops software for the law enforcement industry and wanted to ensure the scalability of its Total Enforcement solution so that it could confidently approach larger municipalities. The company attended a Proof of Concept workshop at a Microsoft Technology Center, which helped it increase the solution's scalability, improve...

Tags: Developer, Scalability, Microsoft Corp., Law Enforcement, Law Enforcement Solution Developer, Total Computer Group, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Case studies 2009-10-27

Empowered SQL Server Development with Toad for SQL Server

A database developer's job is a constant series of challenges - from creating and maintaining tables and stored procedures to optimizing indexes and tuning queries. It's not easy - you need to be smart, patient and have a strong understanding of your SQL Server environment. In...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Server, Quest Software Inc., Database Developer, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-10-22

Windows 7: An impressive upgrade

Windows 7 review:Windows 7 review: 'New' OS is just Vista with small changesPerformance enhancements"We have already determined that W7 won't make your computer run any faster. And if you are upgrading from XP, it might run slightly slower, just as with Vista. ......But it's not really anything new. We hate...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, impressive upgrade, operating system, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Increase developer productivity using IBM RationalTM and WebSphereTM.

Even in a down economy, it's important to deliver services quickly. This Webcast presentation shows how by using solutions from Rational and WebSphere, development teams can leverage the latest Web and SOA technologies, such as SCA, to develop and deliver services seamlessly.

Tags: IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Team Management, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Management

Webcasts 2009-10-07

Adobe Flash Builder 4.0 beta 2 (Windows)

Welcome to the Adobe Flash Builder 4 formerly Flex Builder public beta release on Adobe Labs. The first thing that you've already noticed is that we are renaming Flex Builder to Flash Builder. This name change will create a clear distinction between the free open-source Flex framework and the commercial...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows, Beta, Flash Builder 4, Software Development, Development Tools, Process Improvement, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Quality, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-05

News to know: HP; AT&T; Malware; Twitter; RIM

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. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hordes of owners complain of problems with HP Elite Pavilion PCs using Core i7 Ed Bott: Apple...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Co., Twitter Inc., AT&T Corp., Malware, Apple Inc., Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-28

Red Hat CEO vs. Torvalds: More Linux features don't equate to bloat

Linux distro appliances are the futureCompanies are wising up and getting away from MS 20G worm/virus operating systems and going to Linux distro driven appliances.It is the future with appliances no one needs a Windows OS with Office for someone to open a (.doc) to edit it is a security...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, COMPANIES, Red Hat Inc., Linux, desktop, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Zoho's Next Big Thing

Moving the Point of AssemblyKudos to Zoho. Their efforts remind me of the early days of the Microsoft Productivity Environment where core MSOffice editors expanded their reach through DDE, OLE, rich copy/paste, data binding, merged content and data, VBA scripting and the infamous recorder, and a developer API that...

Tags: Channel management, Collaboration, Groupware, Zoho, Microsoft Corp., productivity environment

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Office Web Apps: OneNote (Office Web Apps: New screenshots)

Office Web AppsNot at all impressed with the Offfice Web Apps....while the other issue that many will still have to decide upon, if they want/ or should allow their own, or business data to be stored on the web/ internet/ cloud.....MS, along with many others pushing Web based apps have...

Tags: cloud computing, Office Web Apps, Office Web, Web application, Microsoft Office, New screenshot, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Composer 7.1 (Mac)

Composer 7.1 is a utility that creates packages. Part of the Casper Suite-the only client management application developed exclusively for the Mac platform-as well as being available as a standalone application, Composer 7 lets users point-and-click their way through the package creation process. In doing so, it creates software and/or...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Package, JAMF Software, Composer 7.1, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-14