Saturday, December 6, 2008

News for developers

One of the founders of the company MySQL AB, David Eksmark, announced his resignation from the corporation Sun Microsystems. For several years he worked at Sun Microsystems, holding a number of senior posts: supervised the development, is the head of the internal IT department, responsible for liaison with the community of MySQL. As explained himself Eksmark caused his departure from the Sun as the internal rules of the company: "I hate rules, which I have to follow, and I hate to violate them. Therefore, the preferred option for me is the denial of permanent employment and further cooperation with MySQL and Sun at less formal environment. "

The company Stimulsoft announced withdrawal Stimulsoft Reports.Net 2008.2, a new version of the famous reporting. In Stimulsoft Reports.Net 2008.2 fully processed kernel is reporting that caused more than doubling the speed. Radically redesigned interface that is implemented on the basis Ribbon UI. For several dozen existing bar codes have been added: ISBN-10, ISBN-13, Pharmacode, FIM, Jan-8, Jan-13, as well as improve the quality of export Excel 2007, Excel XML, RTF, HTML and much more.

Developer open analogue Microsoft. NET, Mono, announced the release of Mono 2.0. Unlike Microsoft. NET Framework, Mono not only runs under Windows, but also for Linux and MacOS X. The new version of Mono platform supports. NET 2.0, Visual Basic. NET 8 and C # 3.0, including Language Integrated Query. There will developers of a new debugger Gendarme and profilirovschik DTrace, which now can work on the platforms, Solaris and Mac OS X. Regarding the new version of an integrated development environment MonoDevelop IDE, it now supports the automatic completion of the code, and allows you to create an interface more intuitive operation.

SQL Maestro Group has announced the release of PostgreSQL Maestro 8.10, a tool for administrators and developers of databases, using an open database management system PostgreSQL. The new version of PostgreSQL Maestro realized the ability to connect to remote PostgreSQL server via HTTP-tunnel with limited access rights; editor Trigger Editor provides for the possibility of modifying the body triggers; master Import Data Wizard allows you to use the COPY FROM STDIN, which is ten times faster import data. In the settings Database Designer has the option Show hints (show tips), users can also choose the default format images to be used in the export figures.

As reported TheVista, SDK for the "magic table" Microsoft Surface is available for visitors PDC, organized by Microsoft at the end of this month. In a message to Microsoft developers reads: "Hear the unique features of computing at Microsoft Surface, immerse yourself in the visual perception based on the presentation of objects and basic management tools, such as ScatterView, learn how Surface SDK correlated with the means multitouch-design for Windows 7 . Visitors will have access to the Microsoft Surface SDK".

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SAP against the backdrop of global crisis

8 October in Moscow went SAP-Forum 2008, organized by Europe's largest producer of software company SAP AG. As you know, she is developing corporate software for the automation of all internal business processes: accounting, trade, manufacturing, finance, personnel management and warehouses, etc. Among the customers SAP - almost all companies from the list of Fortune 1000, and now SAP is starting to earth and small business (on their classification, is a company with annual sales of at least 10 million euros).

Forum SAP - a traditional event for the business community, representatives of large corporations and partners SAP, but have never before in its history it has not been in such grim circumstances, when all around and just talked about the financial crisis.

The tone of the Forum asked in his opening remarks, Jovan Maryanovich, general director of SAP CIS. He explicitly said it is now forced to deal with the company: "We call customers and say: everything has changed, we do not understand." Among the clients are now enjoying complete chaos and anarchy. The company SAP can offer only one: "In the period of misunderstanding and uncertainty need a good analyst - said CEO SAP CIS. - We offer a system of Business Objects as a real tool to combat the crisis."

In an interview with Computer to "Bobby Vetter, senior vice president of SAP Business Development, explained that the current crisis for the company's most important - to control liquidity, which is to provide quality management of financial flows, as well as transparency in all business processes. According to him, precisely because of those problems cease to exist, many large companies. Bobby Vetter also mentioned the company Business Objects system and compare it with the Toolbar in the race car racing, which accurately track the current state system in real time.

Bobby Vetter inclined to believe that the current crisis - this is primarily a crisis of confidence, and it spreads like disease from one market to another party. Here SAP solutions can hardly something to help: there is no target "level of confidence", but there is a built-in analytical tools for quality management relationships with contractors.

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News for developers

Microsoft has released information about Visual Studio 2010 and development platform. NET Framework 4.0. So far released only those changes that affect Visual Studio Team System 2010 - component VS, which would create a single ALM-space for the entire project. In VSTS 2010 will be enhanced support for UML and DSL, will increase the effectiveness of testing at the expense of special tools designed to deal with difficult reproducible bugs, plan testing, verification of changes in the code. Microsoft Team Foundation Server will have a built-in support for Agile Development'a, improved communication between developers, new visualization tools. Moreover, as assure the representatives of Microsoft, the introduction and management of TFS was greatly simplified.

Nokia announced a package of Qt Extended 4.4 (formerly Qtopia), a new version to develop applications for mobile and embedded devices that are running Linux. The composition of Qt Extended includes 19 components for the implementation of messaging, multimedia support, etc., etc. The new version offers increased opportunities to develop applications for devices with touch screen. In the package included a special framework, based on Telepathy and technologies designed to support the implementation of IP-communications in emerging devices. Also, there's a new tool Qt UI Test, which is designed to automate the process of testing applications.

The company EMS Software has released SQL Manager for SQL Server 3.3 - a new version of powerful tools for database administration and development for DBMS Microsoft SQL Server.

IBM introduced Rational AppScan Developer Edition - a product for testing web-applications and identify weaknesses in the defense in the early stages of development. According to the creators of a tool, it allows you to fulfill all the requirements of industry and regulatory standards, such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). IBM Rational AppScan Developer Edition includes the analytical tools, can detect vulnerabilities in source code or code applications skompilirovannom, analyze code in the process of its implementation. IBM Rational AppScan Developer Edition integrates with IBM Rational Application Developer, development environment for corporate applications for IBM WebSphere.

Company Altova introduced the new edition of its XML-editor of Altova XMLSpy 2008 - Standard Edition. Annex is positioned as "entry-level product, and offers users the basic ability to see and check the files XML, DTD, XML Schema, XSLT, XQuery and other files as well as basic editing functions. XMLSpy 2008 Standard Edition supports printing, color selection syntactic structures, numbered lines, convolution code snippets.

N software company announced the release of IP * Works! 8.0 - a new version of the package for the development of Internet applications and implementation support for web-communications. IP * Works! SSL V8 adds support for technology SSL, IP * Works S/MIME V8 will help organize a secure exchange of electronic mail, IP * Works! SNMP V8 help communicating with network equipment. The new version of increased productivity components and a large restructuring: there were drafted. NET Edition, Java Edition and ActiveX Edition.

IBProvider.com reported an update OLE DB-driver for Interbase and Firebird IBProvider various rulers to version 1.9.10.2557, 2.6.4.2557 and 3.0.0.5068 RC3, respectively. In IBProvider v3 Release Candidate 3 adds support for different code pages (DOS858, TIS620, BIG5, KSC_5601, GB_2312, SJIS_0208, EUCJ_0208); corrected errors in processing OUT-query option, realized the optimization of facilities access to BLOB-data, as well as optimizing the use of internal memory. In IBProvider v2/v1 appeared optimization objects access to BLOB-data and optimization of internal memory.

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