A roundup of new tools and technology.
Multivendor standards are not equally desirable in all areas.
Wizards do have their place, but it seems that their occasional convenience should not form
a backbone consideration for the development of any technology.
How can one be sure that they have tested everything in their products, when one never knows how people are going to connect them to different devices from different vendors?
A recent IBM Rational media day afforded the opportunity to check in with Grady Booch.
Innovation through technology can provide an advantage to business. The trick is to understand
where technology is going, and to select those pieces of technology that will help your company innovate to its advantage.
Ovum Ltd. consultant Gary Barnett gives his unique take on one of the technologies getting the most hype among the press, industry analysts and technology vendors today.
A roundup of tools and technologies.
There is a new breed of development tools that give organizations a way to accelerate the deployment of custom-built analytic applications and make them easy to upgrade. Called analytic development platforms, or ADPs, these tools offer ''plug-and-develop'' capabilities that enable developers -- or even savvy business users -- to build sophisticated applications with a unique look, feel and functionality in a matter of days or weeks.
Columnist Tony Baer describes what things might be like if the remaining obstacles to Web services adoption fall away.
Reports of the death of Java applets and client-side Java are premature. In some cases, developers are still far better off using
Java applets over Microsoft technologies, despite having to download and install a plug-in from Sun.
A review of "Java Programming Fundamentals" by Kimberly Seefeld.
A review of Jim Highsmith's book "Agile Software Development Ecosystems"
XML is a young society, but it is already succumbing to age-old divisions.
Editor-in-Chief Mike Bucken discusses Web services technology.
There are understandable reasons why IT
departments are delaying the adoption of .NET. However, the rate of .NET adoption will pick up.
Available tools and technologies.
Many developers will never write a single pattern, read one of the many pattern books available or attend a Pattern Languages of Programs conference. These people need to be convinced of the merits of patterns before
they will ever use them.
Editor Michael Bucken updates the real-time enterprise.
A manager must deal not only with the technical challenges a project presents, but the challenges of managing a mixture of personalities and skill
levels.