Design & Development Digest : development

Responsive Design Gets Simplified

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:45:00 GMT

As a Valentine’s Day present of sorts, Adobe announced the release of a handful of new Web design and development tools for its Creative Cloud suite earlier today. This includes updates to the Adobe Edge Animate and Dreamweaver programs, but the...(read more)

What is TypeScript?

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:46:00 GMT

Have you heard of TypScript, yet? That’s Microsoft’s new JavaScript-like programming language that the company just released a developer preview of a few weeks ago. TypeScript is translated into good old JavaScript so that apps developed with...(read more)

Scalable Java Development Comes to Open Source Community

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:50:00 GMT

The Web is an increasingly communal organism that provides a way for developers and creative professionals from all around the world to collaborate on projects that can, in some way, end up benefitting nearly everyone who uses the Internet. Open source...(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."

iRise Developer Network Unveiled

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:15:00 GMT

If there is one trend that will stand out for large enterprises in the coming year it is that software development will be changed forever as tools that enable anyone to "visualize" applications come to market in a big way. Those companies fostering the transformation stand to gain the most.

Enterprise visualization software provider iRise announced its iRise Developer network today which aims to do just that by encouraging the use of its iRise iBloc and iConnect APIs.

The iRise iBloc API enables the creation of widgets, events and actions from pre-built components for the assembly of complex visualizations, and the iRise iConnect API supports integrations and extensions to the iRise platform. With it, developers can create custom reporting tools, integrations to testing tools, extensions to the iRise platform and other new products that use and/or modify iRise data.

“Establishing an active developer community is an important next step in enabling innovative third-party solutions that extend the iRise portfolio,” said Maurice Martin, president, COO and founder of iRise. “The iDN is all about accelerating innovation to our customers and partners with a collaborative ecosystem of creative thinkers that develop complementary and value-added solutions on top of the iRise platform.”

rPath Ends Deployment Dysfunction with Windows Shops

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:50:00 GMT

rPath, which automates software system construction, deployment and maintenance across physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced general availability of rBuilder 5.8, which brings automated deployment to the world of Windows server applications. rBuilder 5.8 represents the first commercial solution for automated deployment of Windows applications.

“Windows shops will see rPath’s solution for automating deployment of Windows applications as a satisfying answer to a longstanding problem,” said Bernd Harzog, principal analyst at The Virtualization Practice.

For most IT organizations, releasing Windows applications into production is complex, cumbersome and time-consuming. An absence of automation tools for deploying and configuring Windows applications results in long delays that negatively impact service levels and business agility. With rBuilder 5.8, rPath provides a solution for true “pushbutton deployment” of Windows applications.

Key rBuilder capabilities include automated dependency resolution, deep modeling and automated software packaging, version and release lifecycle controls, automated image generation, and cross-platform automation.