Development » Toolkits

Need open source Django CRM? Cuddle up to Koalix

CRM is an application with a long history of open source development, with many projects written the PHP language. However, a Swiss developer has released one of the first open source CRM systems developed with the Django Python framework.

By Rodney Gedda | 13 May, 2011 15:35

Tags: CRM, django, Koalixcrm, open source, python

Microsoft set to offer Web dev tools

Making multiple moves in the Web development space, Microsoft is introducing this week both a website building tool for neophytes and the third major version of its MVC (Model View Controller) technology.

By Paul Krill | 13 January, 2011 08:19

Tags: application development, Developer World, Development tools, Facebook, Microsoft, .net, software, twitter

Google debuts text analysis tools

Google has introduced two tools that may help users discover new ways to parse the company's massive collections of public information.

By Joab Jackson | 18 December, 2010 03:59

Tags: applications, cloud computing, data mining, Google, internet, search engines, software, web services

Nokia ups Qt dev programs, MeeGo tablet 'expected'

In an effort to attract more developers into using its open source Qt framework for Symbian and MeeGo, Nokia will host a series of “code camps” and device seeing programs over the next six months. A MeeGo tablet interface, however, may not surface for some time yet.

By Rodney Gedda | 26 November, 2010 11:20

Tags: MeeGo, Nokia, Qt, smartphones, symbian, tablet PCs

Skype CEO: SkypeKit aimed at onslaught of new gadgets

Skype launched a new software developer kit on Wednesday to help electronics makers embed Skype into any new device they're working on.

By Dan Nystedt | 24 June, 2010 06:58

Tags: application development, consumer electronics, Development tools, sdk, Skype, software, Telecommunication, VoIP

A 'fat-free' programming framework for the cloud

Researchers in the U.K. are developing a lean-and-mean programming framework called Mirage that is designed specifically to support applications running on cloud infrastructure platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine.

By Chris Kanaracus | 23 June, 2010 07:18

Tags: application development, business issues, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, internet, Internet-based applications and services, mirage, open source, software, software development, USENIX

Android devs complain about no Nexus One SDK

Android developers are grumbling about Google's delay in releasing software development kits for new versions of the mobile operating system.

By Nancy Gohring | 08 January, 2010 05:16

Tags: Google Android, nexus one, smartphones

Google delivers SDK for Android 2.0

Google on Tuesday released an SDK for Android 2.0, revealing some new features that will come with the upgraded mobile operating system.

By Nancy Gohring | 28 October, 2009 09:04

Tags: Android, Android 2.0, Google, Google Android, mobile linux, sdk, smartphones

Future uncertain for Yahoo developer programs

Yahoo's high-profile and widely used search APIs (application programming interfaces) and search programs for external developers are up in the air after the company's decision to outsource its search engine services to Microsoft.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 30 July, 2009 07:53

Tags: api, application developer, Microsoft, Microsoft-Yahoo search deal, Yahoo

Nokia N97 debuts with widgets and Ovi store

Nokia's latest-generation Nseries phone, the N97, was released today officially beginning the era of programmable widgets and the bundling of the Ovi apps and content store.

By Rodney Gedda | 01 July, 2009 11:52

Tags: n97, Nokia, ovi store, smartphones, symbian

First KDE 4.3 beta released for testing

The much-publicised KDE 4 release cycle has stepped up a gear with the availability of 4.3 beta 1 which brings more features and application integration.

By Rodney Gedda | 14 May, 2009 08:58

Tags: kde, kde4

New Moonlight release available for testing

A new version of the Moonlight open-source technology that puts Silverlight on Linux is now available for developers to test.

By Elizabeth Montalbano | 07 May, 2009 04:47

Tags: Microsoft, mono project, moonlight, .net, silverlight

Rails founder touts framework stability, responds to critics

Reflecting on six years of working on the popular Ruby on Rails Web development framework, Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson stressed Tuesday that the platform has held to its fundamental principals while accommodating changes.

By Paul Krill | 06 May, 2009 04:25

Tags: rails 3, railsconf, ruby, ruby on rails

Facebook opens up 'activity stream' to external developers

Highlighting the rising popularity of real-time action notifications in social networks, Facebook will let external developers access the "activity stream" its members display on their profiles.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 28 April, 2009 05:10

Tags: api, Facebook, facebook apps

Ruby on Rails 2.3 arrives

Ruby on Rails 2.3, the latest version of the popular open source Web development framework, is now available, according to the Rails Web site.

By Paul Krill | 30 March, 2009 08:39

Tags: ruby on rails

Sun starts JavaFX coding contest

Hoping to spur adoption of JavaFX, a competitor to RIA technologies like Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, Sun Microsystems is employing a time-tested strategy: cold, hard cash.

By Chris Kanaracus | 25 March, 2009 07:43

Tags: Java, javafx, Sun Microsystems, OpenSolaris

K3b 2.0 coming to KDE4 mid-2009, Qt forked for port

Popular CD and DVD burning application for KDE, K3b is gearing up for its first port to KDE4 with a pending 2.0 release, but part of the Qt toolkit had to be forked to make it possible.

By Rodney Gedda | 24 March, 2009 12:05

Tags: DVD, k3b, kde, kde4, mandriva, Qt, Qt Software

Microsoft heralds Silverlight-Eclipse link

Microsoft is touting support for its Silverlight multimedia application technology in the Eclipse open source tools platform.

By Paul Krill | 10 March, 2009 08:35

Tags: eclipse computing, silverlight

Volantis updates open-source mobile Web development tools

Volantis has released an improved edition of its open source toolkit aimed at mobile application development.

By John Cox | 04 March, 2009 12:59

Tags: mobile applications, open source toolkit

Qt 4.5 released under LGPL, new IDE

Qt Software, a division Nokia, has released Qt 4.5.0, the first major release of the cross-platform GUI toolkit to be licensed under the LGPL and it ships with a new IDE for a complete SDK.

By Rodney Gedda | 04 March, 2009 09:53

Tags: kde, Nokia, Qt, sdk

Twitter Feed

Whitepapers

- + c

Latest News

- + c
more