Today Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui Web & Cloud Platform, will reveal its innovative cloud application platform which will allow developers and enterprises to deploy their applications to Windows Azure with the click of a button with no re-writes or new programming skills needed. The company will also expose with Microsoft Azure team a case study showcasing a successful migration and deployment of an energy management system to Windows Azure cloud using Visual WebGui.

Below the press release :

Visual WebGui to Reveal the First Cloud Application Platform to Migrate Legacy to the Cloud at a “button-push”

Developers can now deploy their applications to Windows Azure with the click of a button with no re-writes or new programming skills needed

Los Angeles, CA. – November 17, 2009 – Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui Web & Cloud Platform, today announced that it will reveal its application platform atop Windows Azure and its development framework, Visual WebGui web/cloud platforms offers the only push-button .NET desktop legacy application migration path to Windows Azure. With Visual WebGui enterprises will be able to migrate to Windows Azure, by reusing their existing Windows software code on Windows Azure without re-write or re-engineering. The process is as simple as copying and pasting the Windows code into VWG, selecting Windows Azure run in Visual WebGui SDK, and run.

“With our unique unrivalled legacy applications migration to Windows Azure, and the ability to run them as responsive as and as rich as desktop’s, with proven unhackable security, we have crossed a new threshold,” said Navot Peled, CEO of Gizmox, “While everyone is talking about the cloud, we’re working with Microsoft to bring our solution to enterprises that are looking at migration to the Windows Azure cloud here and now. We also enable the fast development, desktop’s performance, and richness and security benefits to newly built cloud applications”

SRP-Hermetic, a JavaScript library which aims at providing a highly secure Ajax channel implementation (MIT license). Authentication is based on the SRP protocol, and messages can be signed using HMAC or fully encrypted using AES. An interesting implementation providing secure user authentication, communication integrity and communication privacy to AJAX applications, with main focus on efficiency, scalability and customisable secure channel as an alternative to HTTPS.

X-Cart, the ultimate PHP shopping cart software, have just released version 4.3. Besides functional changes there is the main one : change in X-Cart licensing model. Earlier people that wanted to test-trial X-Cart had to buy a license before deploying it. Now online merchants don’t have to do that. One can easily download X-Cart and register (i.e. buy a license for usage) it later after he/she is ready to go live.

More new features in this release include :

• Built-in modules: X-AOM, X-RMA and Flyout Menus with new “Tree-like expanding menu” scheme
• New “Vivid Dreams – Chromo” and “Light & Lucid (2 columns)” W3C-compliant storefront skin with a CSS layout
• Ajax add-to-cart buttons, minicart and product ratings
• A quick order/product/user search panel that can be opened with a keyboard shortcut
• Integration with three popular WYSIWYG editors: CKEditor, TinyMCE, and InnovaStudio
• Revised item groups in the backend menu
• History of order changes
• Certified integration with PayPal Website Payments Standard, PayPal Website Payments Pro (US & Canada merchants) and PayPal PayFlow Pro; plus support for Fraud Management Filters
• Integration with Carrier-calculated Shipping API for Google Checkout
• Integration with Global Gateway, Amazon SimplePay, NAB Transact, HSBC Secure ePayments (API) and Cybersource (SOAP API) payment gateways
• in addition to a revised shipping and payment modules

Skill Testing Partner ExpertRating Launches New Code Testing Platform Exclusively On Elance

Mountain View, Calif. (November 17, 2009) – Elance, where companies hire and manage independent workers and teams online, announced today an expansion of its skill testing platform to augment Elance’s existing 250 skill tests. The new Code Tests, developed in collaboration with partner ExpertRating, provide technical experts new ways to demonstrate their expertise in writing and debugging leading programming languages such as PHP and SQL.

To launch Code Tests, Elance is simultaneously announcing a 14 day “code-off” in PHP – currently the programming skill in highest demand on Elance — offering $250 and a full-year premium membership to each of the coders who score in the Top 10 for PHP programming.

Information Technology is the largest category of work on Elance. The November edition of the monthly “Elance Work Index” shows that PHP programming has retained its #1 spot of skills in demand across all categories. “PHP continues to be the hottest technical skill on Elance. The addition of these new Code Tests gives employers yet another way to be certain that the talent they find on Elance has the skills required to get great results,” said Jon Diller, VP of Elance’s Provider Network. “Meanwhile, the best coders in the market can now further distinguish themselves to help them get paid for what they do best.”

The new Code Tests require the test taker to work with actual code to solve a problem. Each test is made up of 10 questions with a time limit for completing the entire test with recommended time allocations for each question. The test taker will be scored on whether they are able to solve the problem in the allotted time, how concisely the code is written, and how efficiently it uses system resources. “We are pleased to partner with Elance and provide programmers with an opportunity to demonstrate verifiable expertise for key technology skills such as PHP, SQL and many more,” said Ravi Saundh, Co-Founder of ExpertRating (www.ExpertRating.com).

Businesses Also Increase Online Hiring of Professionals with Translation, Illustration, and Android Application Development Skills

Mountain View, Calif. (November 17, 2009) – The Elance Work Index, which ranks the hottest 100 skills in today’s online labor market, today revealed that for the third month in a row PHP (Personal Home Page Tools) captures the number one spot on the Index, placing PHP-skilled professionals as the most sought after independent workers online today.

Elance is also expanding its skill testing platform to augment Elance’s existing 250 tests with new “Code Tests” that give technical experts in top programming languages like PHP a way to demonstrate their expertise in writing and debugging actual computer code. To launch the new PHP Code Test, Elance is sponsoring a 14 day “code-off” in PHP for its pool of skilled PHP providers– offering $250 and a full-year premium membership to each of the coders who score in the Top 10 for PHP programming. The PHP “code-off” begins now and ends at Noon PST on November 30, 2009.

Despite the difficult economic environment, year over year hiring on Elance is up 40% in October and demand for online contractors in areas such as IT, marketing and administrative continues to grow as evidenced by the over 300,000 jobs posted on the site in the last 12 months.