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Programming Language Concepts for Software Developers

This note describes and motivates the current plans for an undergraduate course on programming language concepts for software development students. The paper describes the competences one expects students to acquire as well as the topics covered by the course. The paper plans to use C# and Scheme as instruction languages,...

Tags: Software, Developer, Competence, Programming Language, Copenhagen, Programming, C#, Programming Languages, Software Development, Development Tools, .Net, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-05-18

Stop coddling the computer illiterate

I was listening to NPR on the way home yesterday when they aired a story regarding teenagers coming of age in this digital world, and how this is the first generation of children to have mastered current technology before their parents did. It went on to describe all the horrible...

Tags: proudly, competence, technology-ignorance

Blog posts 2006-08-09

The competence of IT outsourcing

The competence of IT outsourcingI'm not worried about outsourcingI hear my fellow IT pros whining all the time about how their jobs will go overseas. Why am I not worried?1. I investigate the market. I know what is being outsourced and what is not. 2. ...

Tags: Strategy, outsourcing, information technology, competence, IT outsourcing

Discussion threads 2006-03-01

Out-Sourcing and Competence

Out-Sourcing and CompetenceDefining "Competence"I think part of the problem is defining competence. An IT person can be extremely technically adept, responsible, and have a desire to meet his customers' needs and still fail miserably to meet them, because he doesn't understand them. He can't understand them, because he...

Tags: Capital structures, Strategy, outsourcing, information technology, leasing, core competency, competence

Discussion threads 2006-02-28

Domain of Competence of XCS Classifier System in Complexity Measurement Space

The XCS classier system has shown a high degree of competence on a variety of data mining problems. But to what kind of problems XCS is well and poorly suited is seldom understood, especially for real-world classification problems. The major inconvenience has been attributed to the difficulty of determining the...

Tags: Domain, Competence, Classification Problem, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

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Google makes Chrome OS open source today

Contrary to rumors, Google did not release a beta version of its much anticipated Chrome operating system today. And nothing is coming anytime soon: the final version is at least a year away, the mega giant web company said. But there was some significant news for the...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Operating System, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Open Source, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-11-19

Microsoft breaks Firefox

IE Welded into WindowsIE is welded into the Windows Operating System,that is why Windows is so insecure and proneto viruses/worms.They thought by making IE basically explorer.exein concept they would ruin any competitor likeNetscape well they did in a way.Interesting part of it is, they failed becauseFirefox is the most popular...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Corp., flaw, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Survey: After Sidekick Failure Would You Buy Cloud Services?

NoNo I would not buy from them again, I don't need a scare of all my info being deleted.http://gizmoelectronics.blogspot.com/http://www.stophighcosts.comI will never trust the cloud.I will use the cloud but not if it means I have to forgo a local copy and not if the data is private. I like Office...

Tags: Marketing research, mushroom cloud, SideKick, Buy Cloud Services, survey

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

SaaS Customer Bill of Rights: right thing, right time

AG Customer Bill of Rights - SaaS - Live I'm not pimping this because Ray Wang and I happen to be collaborators or that I got a credit in the Altimeter Group report but because Ray and Jeremiah Owyang's SaaS Customer Bill of Rights is the right thing at...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-12

The cloud: no place for amateurs

IBM and Microsoft have been left looking like rank cloud amateurs after this weekend's events. It's typical of how big, established companies over-estimate their competence at cloud computing and SaaS. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Amateur, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Managed Hosting, Virtualization, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-10-12

Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone

I agreeI think its funny so many people get mad at their smartphone companies and providers for not making Flash for the phone when A) It is Adobe's responsibility to do that and B) All the security issues you pointed out. I'm not worried about flash on my phone...

Tags: Smart phones, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple iPhone, Flash Movie, smart phone, Adobe Flash, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Xerox buys ACS; Makes its big services bet

ASCII/xerox allianceASCII group the worlds oldest group of solution providers has teamed with xerox in print managed services in the smb spaceRE: Xerox buys ACS; Makes its big services betI work for ACS. I was a bit surprised to get this news this morning.What Makes This Deal Different Larry ?...

Tags: Document management, Outsourcing, Xerox Corp., ACS, big service

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Telecoms don't want broadband bucks with strings attached

How would you like $4.7 million to build out broadband to rural America? If you're Verizon or AT&T, the answer is clearly, "no, thanks." The Washington Post reports that none of the three major telecoms is interested in taking those funds. The reason is simple enough: they...

Tags: President, Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, AT&T Corp., Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-14

Why the best get better in sourcing

Late last week, I took a call with Tim Albinson, CEO of Aravo. Aravo manages, supplements and enhances supplier information. Tim and I discussed the types of firms that adopt better supply chain practices and technologies. While we spoke,...

Tags: Supply Chain, Sourcing, Aravo, Purchasing & Procurement, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Strategy, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-14

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Reduces System-User Content Creation Time by 50%

VTT Technical Research Centre wanted to save time and money by establishing an easy-to-use tool to enable staff to create the necessary user manuals and instructions in-house and provide management with competence evaluation and talent management functions easily and quickly. The challenge was to enable staff members to begin using...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Talent Management, Workforce Management, Productivity, Human Resources

Case studies 2009-07-01

The Ultimate Troubleshooter 4.88 (Windows)

This is the most complete and most effective PC Tuning program ever written. It is the Ultimate PC System Optimizer a Task, Services, and Startups Manager which, thanks to included recommendations on about every Windows background task, empowers any user to streamline and configure their PC for speed and, above...

Tags: PC, AnswersThatWork, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-05-20

How much does open source cost schools?

How much does open source cost schools?Why don't YOU share with people the challenges you facedwhen moving entirely to Linux? Oh wait, you didn't? Then why are you asking other people to do it?RE: How much does open source cost schools?Just imagine a world where *nix skills where as common...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, open source, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Information Worker Competence Center - Achieving Business Success With Your Collaboration Infrastructure

Competence Centers are the standard approach to managing shared business infrastructures such as Enterprise Resource Management and Business Intelligence. With the increasing importance of team and collaborative work it adopts a similar approach. Many organizations are now responding to the growing demand for collaboration by managing their infrastructure in this...

Tags: Information Technology, Information Worker, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-05-01

Swine flu? What it means for IT professionals

The US Center for Disease Control CDC has confirmed 64 cases of swine flu in the United States and as other countries including Canada (6), New Zealand (3), the United Kingdom (2), Israel (2), Spain (2), and now Germany have confirmed cases, the World Health Organization has raised the worldwide pandemic threat level...

Tags: Storage, Flu, Business Continuity, Workforce, CDC, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Remote Access, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Stephanie Balaouras

Blog posts 2009-04-29

AVADirect Custom Gaming PC

A dirty secret of gaming PC reviews is that vendors frequently try to submit systems with aggressive overclocking that they won't actually sell because of poor reliability, but that will last long enough to score well on our benchmarks. Imagine our skepticism when this $2,900 AVADirect Custom Gaming PC showed...

Tags: Network technology, PC, AVADirect Custom Gaming PC, gaming PC

Product reviews 2009-04-23