Design & Development Digest : applications

Deploy Your Apps in the Rackspace Cloud

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:00:00 GMT

Cloud computing has provided app developers numerous new opportunities for deploying their creations and growing their audience. AppFog is a multi-language Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) built for the deployment and management of cloud-based applications;...(read more)

Break Out of Your Creative Cage

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:45:00 GMT

One of the really great things about working on the Web is that it can be done from pretty much anywhere, as long as there is some kind of connection. This, of course, has its downsides, particularly when it comes to collaborative projects. Many companies...(read more)

Pentaho Opens Doors to Big Data

Pete Prestipino — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:00:00 GMT

Business analytics service Pentaho announced that it has made all of its “big data” capabilities open source.

The new Pentaho Kettle 4.3 release (which is now under an Apache License Version 2.0) includes the ability to input, outut, manipulate and report on data using Hadoop and NoSQL stores including Cassandra, Hadoop HDFS, Hadoop MapReduce, Hadapt, HBase, Hive, HPCC Systems and MongoDB.

What is really exciting about the announcement is that Pentaho has made big data platforms usable for the larger community of developers. The platform provides a easy way to visually orchestrate big data tasks as well as traditional IT tasks such as data mart/warehouse loads and operational data jobs.

"In order to obtain broader market adoption of big data technology including Hadoop and NoSQL, Pentaho is open sourcing its data integration product under the free Apache license,” said Matt Casters, Founder and Chief Architect Pentaho Kettle Project, Pentaho. “This will foster success and productivity for developers, analysts and data scientists giving them one tool for data integration and access to discovery and visualization."

Screenshot Capture Tool for Dropbox

Pete Prestipino — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:40:00 GMT

Screenshots apps are a virtual dime-a-dozen, but CloudShot could prove very valuable for Dropbox users.

CloudShot, which is available for Windows machines, is a screenshot app which automatically uploads images to any folder on your system – and that includes Dropbox folders too. Dropbox has become a very popular tool in a very short period of time. Any solution that connects to it or helps users interact with it, is also going to see some exposure and ultimately usage.

The CloudShot screenshot app has all of the expected features and a few others which definitely make it stand out including the ability to take screenshots of a specific region, windown, menu or tooltip. CloudShot also enables users to use its application with multiple monitors. There’s even a history which provides the ten most recent images.