The mortality rate of software vendors seems to suggest an investment banker’s strategy, but a better approach would be that of an insurance underwriter’s.
.NET Smart Client technology helps deliver a scalable story for analyzing business data via OLAP cubes.
ActiveWords provides a fast and flexible way for the keyboard-oriented worker to automate tasks in Windows.
Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 is coming, and with it, the "Go Live" license. Should you be thinking about going live with your own applications?
A rules management solution for the enterprise, Blaze Advisor lets you capture business rules into a repository with flexible APIs for easy reuse.
Evolution is a source code control system designed around the notion of versioning entire components rather than just files.
A very flexible scripting utility, Superior SQL Builder lets you create almost any text script using an innovative IDE.
With the recent announcement that C# is gaining Edit and Continue, developers are considering the pros and cons of the feature. Can't we all just get along?
Here are recent success stories highlighting software application development projects that are making a difference to businesses around the world.
Stylus Studio provides a full-featured XML development environment at a reasonable price point.
2004 Innovators create applications that make a difference locally and globally.
Unit-testing tools for .NET are proliferating these days. ZaneBug brings some innovative new features to the familiar NUnit base.
With Omean Reader, the RSS reader grows into an information manager. It's an interesting direction.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is exciting some retailers and frightening some consumer privacy advocates. But whatever else it is, it appears to be one of the next big challenges for IT.
Tony Baer is principal with Demand Strategies, a New York-based consulting firm, and editor of Computer Finance, a monthly journal on IT economics. He shares his insights regularly with readers of Application Development Trends and adtmag.com. Here is a sampling of recent writings.
This client-server licensing system for .NET is improved with more samples, code obfuscation, and a lower entry price.
Thinstall lets you shrink .NET deployment sizes by only delivering the parts of the Framework that you really need - among other benefits.
A great tool for the keyboard-oriented Visual Studio .NET developer, now made even better with the addition of refactoring functionality.
A tried and true numerical analysis tool comes to native C# code.