David Fiedler

Zing Network, Inc. this week announced that the company’s first product is designed to free users held hostage by the “World Wide Wait.” The Zing player is an Internet-based application that displays user-selected entertainment–including images, animations and sound–to users while they are waiting for pages to load in their Web browser. The Zing player is […]

Wall Data Incorporated today announced Cyberprise Host Developer, a full-featured development kit for creating customized host applications for the Web. Wall Data’s solution enables developers to utilize a single product for the design and creation of business-critical host applications. By using Cyberprise Host Developer’s dynamic screen generation and selective re-engineering capabilities, application developers are able […]

O’Reilly & Associates this week announced the Perl Resource Kit-Win32 Edition, a collection of documentation and software designed to simplify the development of Perl programs for the Win32 platform. Until now, Windows Perl programmers have been in the minority, while Unix-based Perl scripts have generally been used for system administration and Web programming tasks. The […]

WebLogic announced that its Tengah application server will support Web page compilation with Java, HTML and session management support, enabling developers to create dynamic HTML content using leading third party Web publishing tools. Session tracking will enable the creation of richly interactive Web applications by allowing the system to remember information about the user. Tengah […]

IBM Corp. announced today the company will offer a free commercial license of its XML for Java parser. The parser is designed to help developers parse, process, and create XML documents. Previously limited to a 90 day trial offer, developers can now use and incorporate IBM’s XML parser in their development work. The offering will […]

Cosmo Software this week announced that it is shipping Cosmo PageFX for Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT. Cosmo PageFX is a “rich media” Web design tool that enables developers to add depth, motion and interactivity to images and type that will be used on the Web. Cosmo PageFX provides site designers with the ability […]

Hemera Technologies Inc. today released NetGraphics Studio2, the latest version of Hemera’s Web illustration and optimization software. The new release includes NetGraphics Optimizer2, a wizard-driven Web graphics conversion and optimization application, and NetGraphics Gallery2, a collection of over 2000 royalty-free photo-objects. PhotoFont Maker, a utility that enables developers to quickly create photographic quality textured fonts, […]

NetBeans, Inc. this week announced the beta release of NetBeans IDE, an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that was written entirely in Java based on Sun’s Java Foundation Classes framework. The NetBeans IDE utilizes an object-oriented paradigm in order to provide developers with an easily extendible and distributed programming environment. The tool is one of the […]

The World Wide Web Consortium this week issued the first public Working Draft of the Web Accessibility Initiative’s (WAI) Accessibility Guidelines: User Agent specification. The Guidelines were developed to improve usability for everyone that accesses the Web, and focus specifically on the various aspects of browser design, particularly the user interface. The WAI’s User Agent […]

IBM this week announced the release of a new version of the IBM HomePage Creator, a solution for Web site creation and hosting that features updated technology and expanded services. IBM, which also announced it is making the product available for the first time in Europe, said the new release is designed to enable companies […]

IBM this week announced the first release of the IBM WebSphere Performance Pack software product, part of the company’s WebSphere product line of Web application servers. The WebSphere Performance Pack is designed to enable administrators to achieve high performance in both local and global environments, and ensure that e-business applications can handle peak loads efficiently. […]

ParaSoft Corporation today announced the release of jtest! v2.0, the first completely automatic “white-box testing tool” for Java programmers. Using jtest! 2.0, programmers have the ability to automatically test programs at the class or even the module level. This capability provides developers with the capacity to locate all the bugs in their code. Until the […]