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Two questions to improve software implementations

Large enterprise software implementations are frequently complex, expensive, and risky undertakings. If you are prospective enterprise software buyer, ask your software and consulting vendors the following two questions: 1. Has your company developed an implementation toolkit? 2. Do you offer packaged, or productized, implementation...

Tags: Software, Cognos Inc., Enterprise Software, Consulting, Implementation Toolkit, Implementation Service, British Computer Society, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-10-01

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Eclipse Galileo release train now arriving at gate 3.5

Besides death and taxes, there is one other certainty in the life of a software developer: slipping schedules. Every year, though, Eclipse continues to defy that expectation by releasing a major new version in late June. Today, the Eclipse Galileo release train arrived exactly on time, for the 6th year...

Tags: Eclipse, Eclipse Galileo, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-06-24

ARRA grants will have a focus on collaboration, meaningful PD

I went to a seminar today on the technology-related No Child Left Behind and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ARRA grants that were being administered by Massachusetts over the next two years. Although much of the seminar focused on details and procedures specific to the Commonwealth, a few themes...

Tags: Collaboration, Professional Development, Grant, Teacher, PD, Details, Training And Certification, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Google I/O: How do I code thee? Let me count the ways

Dan Morrill presented a great talk this morning on the 3 different ways to code for Android: Managed Code Dalvik, Ajax, and Native Code. To demonstrate the different ways Dan decided to write the same app , a k-means clustering application, 3 different ways. The first way...

Tags: Google Inc., I/O, Dalvik, Native Code, Dalvik App, Web apps/Ajax App, Android 1.5, Android Browser, NDK App, AJAX, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-05-27

Eclipse Ajax Tools Framework faces termination

Eclipse Ajax Tools Framework faces terminationmore likely M$ FUDThis project is not terminated because of lack of interest, but because it was asimilated by other earth shaking projects.Ajax = deadman walking junkIt's a con-game, and real developers have long figured it out.AJAX: Too many moving partsThe biggest complaint I have...

Tags: termination, Eclipse, AJAX

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

OpenSSL patches three security holes

The OpenSSL Project has released new versions of its popular implementation of the SSL v2/v3 and TLS protocols to fix three security vulnerabilities. According to an advisory from the open-source group, the toolkit update fixes three security flaws that carry "moderate severity" ratings. The...

Tags: OpenSSL, Patch Management, OpenSSL Project, Ssl/Tls, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-03-26

The Performance Organiser 2.0.698 (Windows)

The Performance Organiser is organization modeling software designed to support the successful implementation of a number of best practice management planning techniques including: ISO 9000, The EFQM, The Balanced Scorecard, Baldrige, SIGMA 6. It is a general purpose business analyst toolkit. Anyone who needs to describe in a structured way,...

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows, JIT Software, Performance Organiser, Performance Management, Research & Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-02-17

Linux Silverlight implementation goes live

Linux Silverlight implementation goes liveThis is the point where all ....... the Linux Fanboys should say "Thank you Microsoft".Interesting statements from Miguel de Icaza's bloghttp://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Feb-11.html"Microsoft has continued to help us all along in creating an open source implementation of Silverlight. They have open sourced the Microsoft DLR, the Microsoft MEF...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Linux Silverlight, Linux Silverlight implementation, Microsoft Silverlight, MS HAS

Discussion threads 2009-02-12

RADVISION Developer Platform Brings Flexible H.323 Implementation to Acme Packet Session Border Controller

Acme Packet, the leader in session border control, enables service providers to deliver premium, interactive communications - voice, video, and multimedia sessions - across IP network borders. When crafting its Net-Net Session Border Controller SBC family, which handles tasks such as IP internetworking and Service Level Agreement SLA assurance, Acme...

Tags: H.323, Session Border Controller, RADVision, Acme Packet, VOIP, Business Services, Networking, Telecommunications

Case studies 2009-01-01

Skinfeature GUI Development Toolkit 1.1 Build 0710 (Windows)

SkinFeature is a custom skinning implementation library and GUI design tool available as DLL and .NET components. It allows you easily to create skins . this skin creator supports MS Visual C ++MFC(5.0, 6.0, vs2002, vs2003, vs2005, vs2008), MS Visual Basic, Delphi, Windows Forms (.NET), WTL, ATL, ,and all Win32...

Tags: Library, Tool, SkinFeature.Ltd, SkinFeature, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-07-14

Will Bill Gates' departure usher in open source friendly era at Microsoft?

Will Microsoft become more open to open source with the departure of Bill Gates? It’s a tough call. Observers from both the open and closed source worlds say the exit of Microsoft’s longtime leader won’t usher in a GPL era at the company but it will likely...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Google bets future on improving Client, Connectivity, and Cloud

On Wednesday morning, Vick Gundotra, Engineering VP at Google opened the Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco. I jotted down a few (ok, a lot of) notes for this and other sessions that I'd like to share with you. This is not quite a transcript, but rather a paraphrasing...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Google Gears, Mobile, Google OpenSocial, Web Browser, Google Web Toolkit, Connectivity, Client, App Engine, AJAX, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-05-29

Google's mission: Extend the browser

Google Gears launched a year ago and the search giant is ditching its moniker to reinforce that Gears is an open source project. So far so good, MySpace has used Gears to launch search and sort mail messages. The overall theme: Google is trying to extend the browser. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gears, Google Earth, Web Browser, MySpace, Pricing Detail, Web Browsers, Pricing, Channel Management, Marketing Research, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-28

52+5 reasons to go to Google I/O

On May 28th and 29th, Googlers from all over the world will converge on Moscone West for Google I/O, the company's largest ever developers conference. At last count, Google is sending 52 employees to speak at the San Francisco event, plus 5 more experts from outside the company. I'll be...

Tags: Google Inc., I/O, Python Community, Steve, Programming Languages, Performance Management, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Defeating the Same Origin Policy part 2

In my first post in this series, I discussed the Same Origin Policy and how it protects us from some very serious attacks, the dangers of domain name based trust, and how to attack implementations of the Same Origin Policy within the Java Virtual Machine JVM.  In order to demonstrate...

Tags: Permission, Applet, Attack, Programming Languages, Java, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-03-24

Flexible Analysis and Planning at ABB AG With BOARD

An international group such as ABB AG must attend to diverse requirements from the business and find ways to provide company data transparently, because fast access to well prepared information is the basis for being able to make accurate decisions. ABB AG decided some time ago to search for a...

Tags: Board, Analysis, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Case studies 2008-01-11

Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWT

Is Microsoft's "cloud programming" toolset Volta -- which Microsoft released in early preview form this week -- a "me-too" response to Google's Google Web Toolkit GWT? I've seen that argument from fellow ZDNet blogger Ed Burnette and others around the Web. I asked Microsoft Volta Architect...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Intermediate Language, JavaScript, Microsoft Corp., Google Web Toolkit, Volta, Execution Environment, Scripting Languages, C#, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Programming Languages, Software Development, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-12-07

RightScale makes EC2 a better fit for SaaS

Amazon.com CTO Dr Werner Vogels' presentation at SIIA's OnDemand Summit see my previous posting was punctuated by a demonstration performed by Thorsten von Eicken, CTO of RightScale, a start-up that provides a platform to manage cloud computing on EC2. Von Eicken has an impeccable SaaS pedigree, having been chief architect...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Server, Amazon.com Inc., Service, RightScale, EC2, RightScale Software, Crystal Reports Implementation, Software As A Service (SaaS), Servers, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-11-20

A Generic Programming Toolkit for PADS/ML: First-Class Upgrades for Third-Party Developers

Domain-specific languages facilitate solving problems in a targeted domain by providing features particular to the domain. Declarative domain-specific languages have the additional benefit that users specify what something means rather than how to do something. As a result, the language compiler is free to choose the best implementation strategies and...

Tags: Developer, Compiler, Domain, Programming, PADS/ML, Development Tools, Intellectual Property, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Research & Development, Business Operations

White papers 2007-10-23

SAP's Business ByDesign go to market

One of the niggling questions about SAP's Business ByDesign is just how the heck it is going to reach the numbers it says it wants to achieve. 10,000 new customers a year by 2010, many coming from this market, is ambitious. To date, SAP has been fuzzy about how that...

Tags: SAP AG, Steve Mann, Blogging, Tools & Techniques, Sales Strategy, Frame Relay, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Management, Sales, Networking, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-10-02