Zend and Varien, developer of Magento, the world’s fastest growing eCommerce platform, today announced that they have partnered to make it easier for small- and medium-sized businesses to quickly evaluate, develop, and deploy flexible, state-of-the-art ecommerce Web applications.

Rupert Murdoch, founder of News Corp. ,one of the largest media empire in the world has said in an interview with the Sky News Australia that they are planning to block Google from accessing its content. News Corp to use robot.txt file on all its sites to...

If you needed proof that social gaming is huge business, look no further than today’s blockbuster news. Video gaming giant Electronics Arts (EA for short) just announced that it has acquired the social gaming company Playfish for a deal that could be worth up to $400 million. While there have been rumors of potential acquisition, the deal is now official.

Today at the Microsoft Tech•Ed Europe 2009 conference in Germany, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop announced that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is now available worldwide to help businesses reduce costs, protect communications and delight e-mail users. Along with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, Exchange Server 2010 is part of a generation of solutions designed for increased business productivity and cost savings.

With another year coming to a close, it’s time to look toward the near future. The following are my predictions for the web in 2010.

Just days after the Professional Developer Conference (PDC09) we are organizing an exclusive, and by invitation only, Software Architecture Workshop (SAW) for our managed partners and independent experts. The event will be an intense and interactive one day event that is specifically targeted to address problems and opportunities for ISVs.

Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will purchase the Teamprise-related assets of SourceGear LLC, which enable developers using the Eclipse IDE or operating on multiple operating systems, including Unix, Linux and Mac OS X, to build applications with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. Development organizations will benefit from increased integration in heterogeneous environments, as well as reduced time and complexity associated with application development tasks. Functionality from the Teamprise Client Suite will be integrated into the Visual Studio product line beginning with Visual Studio 2010.

As you may know my site was hacked weeks back and I've been trying to recover my databases/files from the hosting company but they seemed to have dropped off the face of the earth. I'm tired of waiting and want to get Code Justin back up and running. So the opening date for Code Justin will be November 16th! Code Justin is my own personal site (more or less a blog) that I write on frequently about various topics related to programming. If I had to classify my site I would say that it is about programming, game development and industry topics. I'm also an editor/moderator for DZone (A popular developer site) so I try to stay current with a broad range of topics.