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That automation delivers a number of benefits, including expediting application development to improving the agility of change management. That agility will prove to be important for those developers ...

Microsoft is reportedly preparing to remove the compiler toolchain from its Windows SDK for Windows 8, in what appears to be an attempt to force developers into building Metro style apps. Microsoft is ...

There's something in the air, and this time, it's not from Apple. Adobe announced today the official 1.0 release of Adobe AIR, its technology for merging web and desktop application development, along ...

Titanium is an open-source platform that enables developers to build rich desktop applications using standard Web technologies. Titanium applications run natively on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows ...

C# development Develop and maintain Windows desktop applications. Utilize relational databases (Sqlite and SQL Server) for data management. Implement unit testing for ensuring code quality and ...

Qt Jambi is a new and noteworthy alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces. In this article JavaWorld contributor Jeff Hanson introduces the ...

Yahoo has launched a project called Sideline, a Twitter monitoring tool built on Adobe's AIR platform. The effort is notable for three primary reasons: Sideline shows how Yahoo can meld user interface ...

Fellow ZDNet blogger Ryan Stewart wrote a recent piece that noted Google's non-search ventures haven't met with the same level of success as their flagship search product. He goes on to hypothesize ...

Analysts from major research firms Gartner Inc. and IDC have recently emphasized that mobile app developers have to think differently from traditional practices -- or else. If enterprises don't change ...