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AJAX is the web development buzzword du mois. AJAX programming isn't really anything revolutionary. It is simply a means of combining a bunch of web-oriented technologies in a way that enables ...

What tech should a .NET coder use for a new Windows desktop app when presented with a dizzying array of options that include .NET MAUI, WinUI, WinForms, WPF, UWP, Blazor and so on? We've investigated ...

Qt Jambi is a new and noteworthy alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces. In this article JavaWorld contributor Jeff Hanson introduces the ...

Titanium is an open-source platform that enables developers to build rich desktop applications using standard Web technologies. Titanium applications run natively on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows ...

Try as they might, open source desktop apps never gained much ground against proprietary rivals -- and maybe they never will Fans of the open source desktop productivity suite OpenOffice.org breathed ...

Remember the desktop? It used to be a popular development target, before all the mobile-first, cloud-first and, most recently, Internet-of-Things hype. Well, apparently it still is, and paying off ...

Microsoft is reportedly preparing to remove the compiler toolchain from its Windows SDK for Windows 8, in what appears to be an attempt to force developers into building Metro style apps. Microsoft is ...