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Photos: The Victorian engine that could: Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2, one of the great achievements of the 19th century, comes to life 150 years later at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. by CNET News.com; Tags: Photograph, Productivity, CNET News.com, Machine, Babbage, Document Management, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting; Image galleries 2008-05-04

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Of course you realize, this means war.: Fanboys exist for every favored computing platform. When you've been writing about computing for any number of years, such as I have, you are eventually going become the target of kooks â€“ people who post completely random stuff on your blogs, send you crazy and inflamed emails, or write...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Macalope, Jason Perlow, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; Blog posts 2008-04-23
Who shapes IT?: Who shapes IT?If historical figures are included......there are others that are perhaps more influential than George Boole, as influential as he was:Charles Babbage: Creator of the first programmable adding machine.Alan Turing: Arguably the founder of modern computer science.Thomas Watson: Longtime IBM CEO, whose company pioneered lock-in techniques used to this...; Tags: Strategy, information technology, MySpace; Discussion threads 2006-07-24
Building apps without software with Sforce: Adam Gross, director of product marketing at Salesforce.com, showed a densely packed room of Etech attendees the kind of application building that is unfolding at his company and why it is the future of application development. According to Gross, how you build an application is not static, just dependent on...; Tags: Adam Gross; Blog posts 2005-03-15
Why click n’ drag IT may elude us: Why click n’ drag IT may elude usStored ProceduresYes, use SQL. As I upsized an Access app to a SQL Server back end, I discovered I could eliminate a tremendous number of workarounds by leveraging SQL views, functions and stored procedures. Views are good - see if ASA...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Quality, Development tools, tool, standards, programming, information technology; Discussion threads 2004-06-24