Columns: Dev How-To and Advice


Will dev gain at IT’s expense?

You must apply software more carefully to justify new project expenditures these days. Most new expenses will have to be offset by savings elsewhere.

A new look for ADT

Editor-in-Chief Mike Bucken unveils ADT’s new look, which is designed to improve readability and better underscore the magazine’s efforts to provide ever-improving insight into and in-depth coverage of subjects of vital importance to managers responsible for IT development operations.

Product Briefs

A look at software tools and technologies on the market.

Guest Column: Application development in a services-based world

As we move toward a world in which functionality takes the form of services distributed across networks and the dynamic assembly of applications, development organizations find themselves facing new challenges.

.NET and Beyond: The big bet

Succeeding with Web services depends on winning the big bet we’re placing on this multi-part security scheme.

.NET finally brings Web services to life

Microsoft has realigned its .NET product set and now finds a slew of customers using its Visual Studio .NET toolset to build applications and Web services.

Product Briefs

A look at software tools and technologies on the market.

What’s in the name “Web service”?

The path to establishment or obscurity of many of today’s leading technologies may be defined in terms of whether they are accepted under the remarkable buzzword of “Web services,” or indeed whether or not people learn to see through the buzzword.

Notes on the Grid: It’s a network problem

Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan shares his thoughts on grid and network computing.

Q&A: Akamai takes grid computing to the Edge

ADT’s Will Kilburn recently spoke with Bill Weihl, CTO at Akamai Technologies, about EdgeComputing, his firm’s foray into grid computing.

An organic view to developing software: A review of “Managing Software for Growth”

Review of new book on application development management.

EII — The return of the virtual data warehouse?

Like all good information technologies, virtual data warehouses never died. It is now re-emerging under a new guise and with a slightly new mission. Its new name: Enterprise Information Integration (EII).

Q&A: Integration in the offing

Sonic Software CTO Gordon Van Huizen discussed the business of integration in a recent interview with ADT Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan.

Q&A: SOAP gains traction

ADT’s Jack Vaughan spoke recently with Rebecca Dias, Microsoft product manager for advanced Web services, about the status of the technology in Redmond today and in the future.

Management Spotlight: NYC modernizes mainframe to rebuild city

The Department of Buildings updated its front end to make it easier to query information on building history or to check the status of a permit. A side benefit: reduction of long lines and better use of employee time.

Reporter’s notebook: A random walk through the modeling firmament

Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan provides readers with a unique look at modeling issues around the industry.

The autonomic promise

Some of the world’s largest technology companies are spending huge sums to solve a problem that has been talked about for years -- providing computing resources on demand, and allowing automatic maintenance and updating of systems without human intervention.

Product Briefs

A look at software tools and technologies on the market.

Risk and respect

IT may not draw more respect, but with the growing attention to regulatory compliance, IT folks -- and software firms, in particular -- may command more scrutiny than many have been accustomed to.

Books in Brief: Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach

Update tackles the problem of defining software requirements by outlining six key phases in defining a software system’s requirements.