(11/04/09)
Find out the various ways you can call web services and parse responses from your iPhone applications to give your applications a huge range of data sources.
(10/29/09)
XForms 1.1 improves version 1.0 in areas where the initial specification was either ambiguous or was becoming outdated in the face of evolving web technologies. Get a rundown of some of the notable new features.
(08/20/09)
Learn how to add RDFa metadata to DITA and DocBook documents, how to keep those documents valid, and what advantages this technique can bring to a DITA- or DocBook-based publishing system.
(06/03/09)
Discover how to create a DOM tree from scratch or modify an existing DOM tree using PHP 5.
(05/05/09)
Spring stereotype annotations can greatly reduce the amount of XML configuration required to build and maintain a Spring application.
(04/15/09)
Discover the flexibility and power of using ANSI SQL to reshape and transform hierarchical structures.
(03/30/09)
Twitter is ideal for performing all kinds of useful programmatic projects. See how to create a RESTful data application around an XML database, and you will learn how to make the Twitter API work with virtual collections.
(03/26/09)
XQuery enables you to take advantage of the inherent structure of web pages to create easy-to-write and -maintain data extracts, a building block for new ad-hoc web applications called mashups.
Novell Teams With Ingres for SUSE Linux
Open source vendor Novell is looking to broaden its SUSE Linux footprint with a new partnership with the database vendor Ingres that promises to make life easier for developers.
CodePlex Launches Network Monitoring Project
Microsoft's open source CodePlex Foundation launches its second project gallery, opening with NetMons Parser project, providing network monitor parsers for open standard protocols.
Microsoft Previews IE 9
Software giant makes ambitious pitch to developer community with platform preview of Internet Explorer 9, a browser it promises will enable a 'whole new class of applications.'
Digg Dumps MySQL for Cassandra
The social networking and voting site is migrating from the MySQL database to Cassandra, an open source non-relational database.
Google Unveils Apps Marketplace
Search giant debuts online shop for apps, expanding beyond its own App Engine to offer developers working in other frameworks an integration into the marketplace.
Apache Project CouchDB Taking to the Cloud
Thanks to some commercial support from Cloudant, open source NoSQL database project CouchDB is getting ready to take to the cloud, offering an "organic" alternative to conventional relational databases.
Twitter Surpasses 70,000 Apps
Biz Stone, co-founder of the popular microblogging service, notes the growth of the company and the launch of its first developer event.
Oracle Says OpenSolaris Will Stay Open Source
Seeking to ease concerns about the future of the OpenSolaris project following the acquisition of Sun, Oracle is assuring the community that it will keep OpenSolaris available as open source, and invest heavily in its development.