Building an SOA? Get this technical how-to paper on ways that Sun's Java Composite Application Platform Suite can help streamline development and orchestrate services across systems. more>

Software as a Service Tutorial SaaS Market ERP Servers: In this letter, I plan to turn my attention to software as a service (SaaS) — an exciting delivery model for software. In the most basic terms, SaaS involves delivering and receiving software as bytes over the Internet instead of buying and installing software locally as bits. Given the recent hoopla over SaaS, it is no exaggeration to say that it has been a big hit in many areas. Many consumers use SaaS every day with services like Google, Yahoo!, and eBay, but now those services and many others in the ERP space are moving into the enterprise. In case there are still any SaaS doubters, let's take a moment to examine some of the numbers. more>

XPages, a recent addition to the IBM Lotus Domino Web development technology toolkit, is probably the most cutting edge and powerful of the set. Xpages provides for capabilities that were previously not thought possible to have in the Domino Web application development environment. XPages gives you the capability to easily develop Web 2.0 type user experiences for your existing web applications. This tutorial will demonstrate the power of XPages by illustrating how to update the Domino address book template with Web 2.0 functionality. Check out this Lotus Domino XPages tutorial now.

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View and compare the differences between Crystal Report viewers. more>

Game Developers, your demo could win you a share of cool prizes. Intel is looking for the best Threaded Game and Best Game on the Go. Gain exposure for your project and take advantage of our development resources. more>

New Technologies for AJAX and Web App Dev. Get tech tips into using the Project Phobos lightweight Web application framework to build applications with JavaScript, AJAX, and the Java EE stack. more>

Learn Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 programming in this free developer tutorial. more>

Create, analyze, and optimize high-performance applications on clusters of Intel® processor-based systems with the help of Intel® Cluster Tools. more>

Check out Lotusphere 2009 in Orlando, Florida, at the Walt Disney World Resort from January 22 to January 29, 2009. The theme of the conference will be the “power of the community”. Join us and celebrate sixteen years that Lotusphere has been a industry leading conference. If you are a business or IT professional, administrator, or developer and know that collaboration is a key asset, then Lotusphere 2009 will give you access to the latest and greatest expertise and information about IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Lotus software products. Come to Lotusphere 2009 and help power our community.

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Open Source Projects in Computer Science: Start using Intel's Threading Building Blocks (TBB) for your open source computer science projects in distributed and parallel computing. TBB makes C++ threading a breeze whether you are a student or an expert programmer. more>

Contains 115 Java code samples from the Crystal Reports documentation, Customer Support Sites, and Product Management for the Java Reporting Component, RAS, and the Enterprise Framework (scheduling, publishing, user administration). more>

Start learning Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with this free training course module from AppDev. more>

Contains 118 C# and VB.NET samples from the Crystal Reports documentation, Customer Support Sites, and Product Management for CR.NET, RAS, and the Enterprise Framework (scheduling, publishing, user administration). more>

The Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5300 Series are 64-bit server/workstation processors utilizing four Intel Core™ microarchitecture cores. These processors are based on Intel’s 65 nanometer process technology combining high performance with the power efficiencies of low-power Intel Core™ microarchitecture cores. The Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5300 Series consists of two die, each containing two processor cores. more>

XQuery has been around for more than a year. Based on the large number of implementations and developer interest, the web community is finally incorporating XQuery into its web development toolset. Perhaps web developers have begun to fully realize the powerful combination of XQuery with other XML technologies such as XML schema, XSLT, and XML databases. This free tutorial will teach you how to extend XQuery beyond its intended use stricting as an XML query language and instead utilize it for middleware and Web application development. Start this XQuery web application tutorial now.

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This Flash demo illustrates how to access and transform data into information in visual formats. more>

Begin learning Java Web development with this free training course module from AppDev. more>

Jaime Zuluaga, Visualization Specialist, goes through various dashboard usage examples and dashboard design scenarios. Viewers will also learn about connecting to live data with Crystal Xcelsius Workgroup via a Web Service. more>

Sun Identity Management (IDM) Tutorial Data Center Security Policy: Solutions that work in your environment. Today’s enterprise is operating an increasing number of secure systems and applications and, at the same time, moving beyond its traditional boundaries to work with more and more outside partners who have their own secure IT infrastructures. By making it possible to securely share identity information across internal and external resources, effective identity management enables secure, efficient interoperability in even the most diverse environments. Without it, secure administration and management of all these systems and applications would be a nightmare, if not an impossibility. more>

Software Digital Logic Integrated Circuit Design Fundamentals: Learn how Sun Distinguished Engineer Steve Rubin invented a method of designing integrated circuits that he thinks is a "no brainer". more>

Create Threads Faster. Intel Thread Checker reduces time to market for threaded applications by speeding up the development process. Now supporting Intel® 64 architecture and Microsoft Visual Studio* 2005 environments. more>

Crystal Reports XI is the latest version of the report writer from Business Objects. Local reports guru David McAmis takes the new version for a spin. more>

Solaris 10 Container Virtualization Primer: One of the key breakthrough technologies in Solaris 10, Solaris Container has the ability to promote server consolidation, as well as improve application availability and manageability. In this interview, Inner Circle plays 20-plus questions with Sun virtualization experts Joost Pronk van Hoogeveen, Jeff Victor, and Chien-Hua Yen to more fully understand the potential, capabilities, and limitations of Solaris Containers and Solaris Zones. more>

This Flash* animation guides you through the features and benefits of the Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer for Windows. more>

Recently added to the Business Objects BI tool set, Crystal Xcelsius, is a stand-alone Windows application, designed to create interactive dashboards. Crystal Xcelsius uses a point-and-click interface that lets you create dashboards and visual business models from Crystal reports, personal spreadsheets, webservices or corporate data, and easily distribute them via PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, PDF, and the web (as flash SWF files). more>