• Oracle NetBeans 7.2 supports the latest PHP, C++

  By Joab Jackson | 25 May, 2012 18:34

  The newest version of the Oracle NetBeans IDE (integrated developer environment) will come with support for the latest versions of PHP and C++.

• Sencha Architect: Visual HTML5, sort of

  By Neil McAllister | 16 May, 2012 20:12

  Sencha describes Sencha Architect 2, the latest incarnation of its visual Web development tool, as "a massive upgrade to Ext Designer," the previous version. The name change from Designer to Architect reflects the product's new focus. Instead of a tool for building Web UIs, Sencha says the new version is suitable for creating complete Web applications, both for UI designers and back-end developers. That's true up to a point.

• Google simplifies use of Analytics API

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 10 May, 2012 04:27

  Google has developed a tool to automate the creation of custom-reporting dashboards for its Analytics website-usage tracking service, the company said on Wednesday.

• Amazon Web Services aims to make life easier for Windows developers

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 May, 2012 02:07

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) now allows ASP.NET developers to take advantage of Elastic Beanstalk, which has been developed to make it easier to roll out cloud-based applications, the company said on Tuesday.

• Google makes BigQuery available to all

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 02 May, 2012 08:47

  BigQuery, a cloud-based service from Google for analyzing very large sets of data, is now publicly available after a period of limited-availability testing, Google said on Tuesday.

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