Sun, Java, and the Middle Course
Is Sun taking the initiative on openness and community, or is stepping off into the future by taking the middle course just being reactive?
June 30, 2006
Discovering Relationships in Context
Cogito is a graph-based relationship analytics tool for pattern matching and relationship identification, making it an ideal tool for computer forensics.
June 30, 2006
Bridging the Gap
Usability is a quality attribute of a system, which encompasses learnability, efficiency, memorability, error recovery, and end-user satisfaction.
June 30, 2006
All the Fixings
If it isn't broken, there's no need to fix it. But if it is broken...
June 30, 2006
SOA Management Suites
All but the smallest service-oriented architecture will eventually need dedicated management. We evaluated suites from Actional and SOA Software. Both were on the money.
June 30, 2006
RailsConf 2006: Out of the Blocks
Mike Riley reports what's happening with Ruby and Ruby-on-Rails from the conference floor of the RailsConf 2006 conference in Chicago. (MP3, 4:44 mins.)
June 23, 2006
ClickOnce Boundaries
Brian Noyes on installing application prerequisites with ClickOnce, the API, and the limitations of customizing ClickOnce that can force a look into the Updater Application Block from the MS Patterns and Practices group. (MP3, 17:34 mins.)
June 21, 2006
Microarchitecture Performance
Improved throughput in energy-efficient designs for multicore processors and other high-performance systems
June 20, 2006
Lock-free Interprocess Communication
Interprocess communication is an essential component of modern software engineering. Often, lock-free IPC is accomplished via special processor commands. Here's a way around that.
June 15, 2006
Updating Smart Clients with ClickOnce
Brian Noyes talks about how .NET 2.0's ClickOnce can be used to create intelligent, dynamic and secure remote updates of Smart Client apps. Brian also compares Test-Driven-Development (TDD) to Interface-First-Development. (MP3, 17:45 mins.)
June 13, 2006
Happy Birthday ZIP Format
The venerable ZIP compression file format is 18 years old. PKWARE CTO Joe Sturonas and chief scientist Jim Peterson discuss the format, where its been and where its going.(MP3, 7:34 mins.)
June 9, 2006
Enterprise Service Bus: Part 2
While the SOA software industry clearly has room for many participants, at the enterprise-wide software grade, the usual suspects dominate
June 7, 2006
Impact Analysis & Dependency Mapping
Guy Hoffman explains what impact analysis and dependency mapping are, and why they're critical to software development. (MP3, 5:23 mins.)
June 5, 2006
Nanometer Clock, MS Researcher Honored, and New IT & Counter-Terrorism Book
University of Wisconsin-Madison researches have developed a clock that measures time at the nanometer scale. George Robertson is inducted into the CHI Academy. Wiley-IEEE Press releases the new book Emergent Information Technologies and Enabling Policies for Counter-Terrorism. (MP3, 3:41 mins.)
June 2, 2006
2006 Jolt Awards
The tradition continues with the 16th Annual Jolt Awards, with new entries and new categories
June 1, 2006
Developer Diaries
From startups to SlickEdit, we're on the road this month.
June 1, 2006
Assurance & Agile Processes
Assurance that systems will perform as you expect does not conflict with agility—it merely challenges it.
June 1, 2006
Living with Compliance
Ensuring that you're building the system you thought you were building amounts to "proving that you did what you said you'd do." Who'd have thought that this would prove to be one of the thorniest problems in software development?
June 1, 2006
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