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Tomorrow's Software Factory--Today
If you read enough technology news, you are bound to run into the software factory. But just what is a software factory?
January 31, 2006
IT Alias, Feature Funhouse and Mobile Champions
IT Alias, Feature Funhouse and Mobile Champions
January 31, 2006
Tools for Systems Engineers Announced
Roger Oberg describes IBM Rational's new tools designed to help systems engineers manage their development environments. (MP3, 3:20 mins.)
January 30, 2006
SCM Strategies
Laura Wingerd, author of Practical Perforce, discusses strategies for effective Software Configuration Management. (MP3, 4:48 mins.)
January 30, 2006
Modeling the Real World
Modeling the Real-World: Usage Scenarios; Book Review: "Survival of the Savvy"; Hot Links
January 25, 2006
Dynamic Plug-In Linking, Loading, & Dispatching with Ada 2005
Statically-typed, statically-built, object-oriented language such as Ada can make full use of the notion of dynamic plug-ins.
January 19, 2006
Dual-Core Software Development and the Macintosh
Dual-Core Software Development and the MacintoshJames Reinders discusses software development for multi-core platforms, particularly in terms of Intel's development tools for the Macintosh. (MP3, 4:55 mins.)
January 18, 2006
Better Software: No Matter What the Cost
SD Best Practices India: Scott Meyers
January 14, 2006
Solid-State Lighting and the RAD Lab
TheAlliance for Solid-State Illumination Systems and Technologies unveils a novel concept for lighting homes and offices. New Research Lab Formed The Reliable, Adaptive, and Distributed Systems Laboratory (or RAD Lab) is formed at U.C. Berkeley. (MP3, 3:49 mins.)
January 11, 2006
CES 2006: On the Show Floor
Ernest Lilley reports on emerging trends at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, including more of everything: more storage, longer battery life, higher screen resolutons. (MP3, 4:23 mins.)
January 5, 2006
Unified Modeling Language (UML) Tutorial - Part 1 Introduction
UML has increasingly been adopted as an effective standard for project and program management. From it's origins in software development, UML is utilised in virtually every industry, from utilities and resources, aerospace and military, government and commerce. This tutorial introduces the concept of UML and leads into other white papers available from the Sparx Systems website, 30 day downloadable trials of our product range are also available at: www.sparxsystems.com
January 5, 2006
Logidex Manages SOA
LogicLibrary's Alan Himmler, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, and Brent Carlson, Co-Founder and Vice President of Technology talk about Logidex, the company's SOA governance tool. (MP3, 8:23 mins.)
January 5, 2006
Dr. Dobb's Math Power Newsletter - December 2005
Book review: Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists, sixth edition; Mail Matters; In search of an SI Unit for the light year; Postal Bar Code Explained;
January 5, 2006
Contivo Builder and MDA-oriented development
Software Development Magazine speaks with Dave Hollander, Chief Technology Officer for Contivo, about his company's latest release of Contivo Builder, a data dictionary utility that facilitates MDA-oriented development.
January 5, 2006
New MPEG Standard Approved
The ISO/EIC MPEG group has approved MPEG-a ALS, a new standard for audio lossless compression. (MP3, 2:22 mins.)
January 4, 2006
Gvinum: Implementing move and rename
Summer of Code -- Chris Jones.
January 3, 2006
FFMPEG Integration/Audio Multiplexing
Summer of Code -- Ian Gowen.
January 3, 2006
Netnews Hooked on Drupal
Summer of Code -- Jan Blom.
January 3, 2006
Sanford Armstrong
Summer of Code -- Sanford Armstrong.
January 3, 2006
The Agile Edge: Unified and Agile
From Objectory to RUP to EUP, the Unified Process has continued to evolve. Now, with its marriage to agility, we have a simplified instantiation tailored for agile software development teams.
January 1, 2006
Deadline: Where Did My Job Go?
Passions run high: NetSeminar with IEEE-USA's Ron Hira on offshoring draws 700 attendees.
January 1, 2006
Detecting Potential Deadlocks
To avoid deadlocks, Tomer explains how to use tools that detect potential deadlocks each time code is executed.
January 1, 2006
The Eclipse Visual Editor
The Eclipse Visual Editor is a subproject that provides a framework for creating Eclipse-based GUI builders.
January 1, 2006
Cocoa Memory Management
Cocoa, a Mac application development framework, has a memory-management scheme that differs from Java or C++.
January 1, 2006
Sorting in Java & C#
David uses reflection to sort a list of complex types using both Java and C#.
January 1, 2006
Recursive Descent, Tail Recursion, & the Dreaded Double Divide
What can you do when the wrong answer turns out to be right?
January 1, 2006
Thoughts on Language Design
Guy Steele, an engineer who knows something about designing programming languages, explains why new challenges require new solutions.
January 1, 2006
Viewpoint: Defending the Gantt Chart
The project manager's mainstay is conspicuously absent from a popular PM application. It's a shame, as the charting feature is still useful and necessary, despite its falling popularity.
January 1, 2006
Dr. Dobb's Journal @ 30
DDJ's long-time editor-at-large reflects on how we got to where we are today.
January 1, 2006
Books Squash Shocked Scribe
January 1, 2006
Dr. Dobb's Journal January 2006
Programming Languages
January 1, 2006
New Products
January 2006 New Products.
January 1, 2006
Adventures in Offshoring: Global Success Stories
The latest trends are polar opposites. While some mavens crow about pair programming and on-site customers, others distribute development across the globe. Do lower costs justify oceanic rifts among team members? Three offshore project managers say yes.
January 1, 2006
Hotter Events
Sometimes you need to define your own custom events. John shows how to make it as easy on yourself as possible.
January 1, 2006
GNU Autoconf
Build processes can be frustratingly brittle. If you find yourself making predictable, repetitive changes to your build procedure to suit a given environment, Autoconf may be for you.
January 1, 2006
Friendship and the Attorney-Client Idiom
The much-maligned "friend" declaration comes with its share of pitfalls. Alan shows how to use friendship to enhance encapsulation while minimizing the risks.
January 1, 2006
Examining Objective-C
Objective-C is an object-oriented strict superset of C and is the language of choice for development with Mac OS X or the GNUStep Foundation classes.
January 1, 2006
News and Qs
January 2006 Swaine's Flames.
January 1, 2006
Of Interest
January 2006 Of Interest.
January 1, 2006
News & Views
January 2006 News & Views.
January 1, 2006
The More Things Change...
January 2006 Editorial.
January 1, 2006
AOP & Accessibility
Jorge and Laura report on Aspect-Oriented Analysis and Design and Access by Design, respectively.
January 1, 2006
Some Tools of the Trade
From watermarks to DVR, Jerry talks about some of the tools he uses day in and day out.
January 1, 2006
How to Do "Done
According to personal productivity guru David Allen, we don't manage data effectively and we don't plan naturally. He's got a solution—and it just may work.
January 1, 2006
Googleborg
There's more to this rising star than just search. But can Google stay true to its guiding principle, "do no evil," while seeking to supplant Microsoft on the desktop?
January 1, 2006
Hijacked!
Sunrise, sunset ... When Epsilon's biggest client demands a significant upgrade, our reengineering project is derailed. Still, opportunity beckons.
January 1, 2006
Old Pals, New Tools
When Jasper sidelines Jerry, our young apprentices Alphonse and Avery fall back into their old camaraderie-and get creative with Java 5-s new generics and autoboxing features.
January 1, 2006


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