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09.14.05
Microsoft Touting RSS To Vista
Developers
 By
David Utter
A top ten list from the home office in Redmond, Washington, presented at PDC 2005
in Los Angeles, urges developers to take advantage of RSS.
Bill Gates might be a fine keynote speaker, but the writers of the Windows
Vista top ten aren't likely to make it to the Late Show with David Letterman
anytime soon.
"The Top Ten Ways to Light Up Your Windows Vista Applications" put forth at Microsoft's
Professional Developers Conference suggest some ways the tech giant's horde of
developers can best build applications for Windows Vista.
Number 8 on the list says "Bring data to the user with RSS." In Vista, RSS plays
a big role, apparently more than just making RSS feeds easier to find in IE7 or
other Microsoft applications:
Use the Windows Vista RSS
feed APIs, common feedlist, shared data store, synch and parsing engines, and
list extensions to RSS.
Windows Vista includes new RSS platform components that enable your application
to easily consume RSS feeds.
Microsoft seems open to supporting both RSS and Atom standards. They list unified
feed parsing support via API for RSS 0.9x, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom 0.3, and Atom
1.0. Further, Microsoft notes that if a user subscribes to a feed in one application,
like IE7, "that feed will be available to all other applications."
About the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.
Codase: A Source Code Search
Engine
 By
Chris Crum
A company called Codase Inc. has released the alpha version of a syntax-aware
source code search engine, simply called Coadase.
Codase understands programming languages
and treats code as code rather than text. The search engine allows developers
to search functions, classes, strings, constants, macros, comments and other programming
language constructs.
It hosts what the company refers to as a "huge amount" of open source codes, including
codes that are hidden in compressed files and source control repositories.
According to a press release, Codase only indexes and searches codes in which
every line is validated and compiled by an intelligent and powerful source code
analysis engine.
For this alpha version, the only languages that Codase covers are Linux C/C++
and Java, but the company says that other languages will be available in future
releases.
Salesforce.com Opens Online
Marketplace For Applications
By Chris Crum
Salesforce.com has launched an eBay style online marketplace called AppExchange
for the buying and selling of applications between businesses.
AppExchange was created
to allow Salesforce customers and third-party developers to exchange applications
with each other.
The site features 8 different application categories, each with their own subcategories
for the user to choose from, as well as application reviews, and a list of the
most popular applications. Reuters writes:
Salesforce Founder and Chief Executive Marc Benioff introduced its AppExchange
service that lets customers build and share software with other Salesforce users
at a company user conference in San Francisco.
For example, Salesforce.com users could potentially twin the application with
Google Maps to allow salespeople to pinpoint the locations of prospects.
Customers are able to test the applications featured at AppExchange before committing
to them. All of them will run in the customer's Salesforce.com platform.
About the Author:
Chris is a staff writer for WebProNews.
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