Scott Clark

Microsoft Corp. this week announced the latest version of its MSDN Online developer site. The site provides more than 2 million developers with access to comprehensive development information. Additionally, Microsoft’s new MSDN site connects developers with industry experts and peers, offers new Online Special-Interest Groups (OSIGs) and provides instant access to training and support resources […]

Electronic Software Publishing Corp this week announced QuickCheck, a quick and easy way to check the quality and identify problems on a Web site. Elsop believes that QuickCheck is “the most powerful service for finding broken links and performing weblint error checking on a Web page.” To use the service, the user enters the URL […]

Intraware Inc. and Bluestone Software Inc. this week announced an expansion of their current partnership that will have Intraware providing primary Web-based software for Bluestone’s XML Suite. Bluestone created Bluestone XML Suite to enable developers to easily make and deploy e-commerce, electronic data interchange, application integration, and supply chain management applications. Intraware is offering an […]

StarNine Technologies Inc. Monday unveiled WebSTAR, a Web server for the Mac OS which features performance improvements and new technology that turns WebSTAR into a complete Internet Server Suite. WebSTAR Server Suite 4.0 features a two-fold increase in Web server performance, and includes a new SMTP/POP/IMAP email server with LDAP and remote Web-based email access […]

WebCriteria Inc. this week announced SiteProfile, the first automated service for comparing the performance of Web sites from an end-user perspective. SiteProfile measures and benchmarks a site’s effectiveness using objective, repeatable “user-focused metrics.” SiteProfile makes the evaluation by measuring speed, ease of navigation, “freshness” and composition. The service compares the results to those from competitive […]

Mercury Interactive and Symantec this week announced support for testing Java applications developed using Symantec’s Visual Cafe Enterprise Suite. Mercury Interactive’s testing solutions were created to ensure functionality and performance for the deployment of Java-based applications. Mercury Interactive added Visual Cafe support to its WinRunner, XRunner and LoadRunner automated testing tools. WinRunner and XRunner are […]

Tetranet Software Inc. this week announced the release of Metabot Pro 1.0, the automated Metatag creation, insertion and testing tool. Using a spreadsheet style interface, Metabot Pro allows users to generate and manage Metadata. This enables developers to view the Metatags in their HTML files, insert Metatags into multiple files, and test for Metatag standard […]

Netopia Inc. Tuesday announced a new initiative to generate new alliances and licensing agreements with vertical portals and industry associations through the use of its new Netopia Site Server 3.0 platform. Netopia Site Server 3.0 (NSS) is the basis for Netopia’s “No Assembly Required” Web Site creation services. By utilizing NSS, partners can offer professionally […]

WebSideStory, Inc. Friday announced the debut of HitBOX.com, which it bills as the industry’s first independent Webmaster community. HitBOX.com features more than 280,000 independent Web site members, with all of them using HitBOX Tracker, WebSideStory’s free Web traffic analysis tool. HitBOX Tracker provides data that enables developers to enhance and improve their site design and […]

NetMechanic Thursday launched a new browser compatibility service which will indicate how Web pages appear when they are viewed on different computers using different browsers. Web developers can utilize this free NetMechanic service to design and test a site without the need for dozens of previews. NetMechanic Browser Compatibility can significantly reduce the time to […]

Platypus Partners LLC this week released JET 2.2 and JET API, new Java-based software which enables PC access to mainframe legacy applications over the Internet. The two products Web-enable IBM and Tandem mainframes by incorporating older mainframe standards with Java technology. JET 2.2 is a Java-based terminal emulator which allows PC and Unix workstations to […]

Ulead Systems Inc. Friday released Ulead Animation.Applet, its new WYSIWYG tool for creating animated Java applets. Animation.Applet enables users to easily create complex Java-based animations, such as scrolling news tickers, interactive flying logos and company banner advertisements. These animations can contain multiple images, sounds, varied text, colors, motion styles and URL links. Ulead Animation.Applet walks […]