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Policy-based management may help bridge some pitfalls in SOA's evolution

I had a nice chat with Rich Seeley at TechTarget this week on SOA and management, and he produced this story. The major theme of the article is that SOA forces a new kind of management, one that's by necessity highly inclusive and crosses the borders of the emerging loosely...

Tags: Agile Development, Application Lifecycle Management, datacenters, Developer Tools, Enterprise 2.0, IBM, IT Management, IT Service Management, ITIL, management, SaaS, SOA, SOA architect, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Testing Tools, Web Services

Blog posts 2007-06-28

Telelogic acquisition takes IBM closer to the applications business

I just saw that IBM is buying Swedish development vendor Telelogic for $745 million, greasing the skids for the race of big software vendors to go even deeper on verticals and specialization.Just as IBM sidestepped the issue at their Innovate conference last month of whether they are getting into the...

Tags: Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, IBM, Software Development, Embedded, Developer Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development

Blog posts 2007-06-11

Sun plans developer-focused, on-demand application grid services

Before the end of the year, Sun Microsystems will follow the lead of Amazon and Microsoft in providing a "pay as you drink" applications hosting service that provides a lifecycle approach to new web application development and deployment.In addition to announcing JavaFX Script, a lightweight programming language for creating rich...

Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Testing Tools, Sun Microsystems, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SaaS, Open Source, Mobile, Microsoft Live, Java, Internet, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, datacenters, convergence, content delivery network, Application Lifecycle Management

Blog posts 2007-05-08

ALM 2.0 era ushers application development into a managed business process

Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Borland Software.Many people have defined software development as more art than science -- sometimes even a dark art. Thats why the business side of an enterprise is often perplexed by the Application Lifecycle Management ALM process. They see what goes in as...

Tags: Web Services, Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA, Podcasts, Open Source, management, Java, IT Management, Enterprise Java, Eclipse, Developer Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development, .NET

Blog posts 2007-05-01

Bungee Labs starts off Web 2.0 Expo with a bang -- web development as a service with a low-cost hosting model

Its time to add another IT category to the official IT lexicon: software development and deployment as a service SDDS. And this ones a keeper.Thats my conclusion after seeing a demonstration of Bungee Labs new Bungee Connect offering, which combines the virtues of online web application development with a near-real-time...

Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, SaaS, Open Source, Microsoft, Internet, IDEs, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Eclipse, Developer Tools, content delivery network, Application Lifecycle Management, Amazon, Akamai

Blog posts 2007-04-16

Embedded development gains some RAD milestones

Pressure is mounting on the development process for embedded software -- pressure to produce and move the stuff quickly, pressure to ensure quality amid hundreds of permutations on dozens of targets, and pressure to simplify and standardize on tools, testing, and builds -- all to bring the notion of rapid-agile...

Tags: Agile Development, Application Lifecycle Management, Developer Tools, DSO, Eclipse, Embedded, IBM, IT Management, Linux, Microsoft, Mobile, Open Source, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Testing Tools

Blog posts 2007-02-13

As IT gains needed maturity, role of software nears tipping point

The act of creating software may be going on 50 years old, but its still an immature pursuit. A few current events in the market, however, offer indicators that the software-as-lifecycle concept may shove development practices over a tipping point to an era of intense and needed transformation.A number of...

Tags: Open Source, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Enterprise Java, SOA, SOA Governance, Microsoft, Software Development, Eclipse, IBM, IDEs, Developer Tools, HP, Testing Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development, .NET, software

Blog posts 2007-01-29

Gauntlet targets management of the process behind quality application development

Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Borland Software, Inc.Application development is maturing to embrace a more holistic approach to application lifecycle processes, one that emphasizes policy-based approaches -- managing process and people -- and not just the technology. Such a coordinated approach also fosters feedback efficiencies, where testing...

Tags: Podcasts, Interarbor Solutions, Enterprise Java, SOA, Software Development, Eclipse, IDEs, Developer Tools, Testing Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development, .NET

Blog posts 2007-01-22

Maturation of application development requires better insight into what works in practice

Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: 6th Sense Analytics.Some 9.5 million developers around the world are toiling away, and their bosses -- either individually or collectively -- have rather small insight and limited information about what they do and how they do it. We see requirements go in...

Tags: .NET, Agile Development, Application Lifecycle Management, developer, Developer Tools, DSO, Eclipse, Enterprise Java, IDEs, Java, Microsoft, Open Source, Podcasts, SaaS, Software Development, Testing Tools, tool

Blog posts 2007-01-12

Java may be free under GPL -- but end-to-end development remains the holy grail

While an open-sourcing of Java ME under a GPL license has exciting implications for hardware vendors to ease the porting of JVMs, other announcements today offers developers ease in crossing the gap between enterprise-class development and the exploding market for device-level development. It turns out Eclipse as an end-to-end development...

Tags: Open Source, Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, DSO, Application Lifecycle Management, Mobile, Embedded, IDEs, Developer Tools, Sun Microsystems, Software Development, Eclipse, Linux, Enterprise Java, Agile Development, Java, GPL

Blog posts 2006-11-13

Additional Resources

Email epidemic: Don't cut the flow, embrace it!

The right tool for the jobThey're different tools for different needs. If you want to direct a communication to me, send an email. If you want to bore people with your every move, Twitter. If you want to let people know what's happening in your life in an unobtrusive way,...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, e-mail, Twitter Inc., SMS

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

Garmin Nuvi 1690

Garmin made a pretty big splash last year when it debuted the Nuvi 880, its first-ever Internet-connected portable navigation device PND featuring MSN Direct data service. With MSN Direct scheduled to go offline in the very near future, Garmin had to create something to fill this void, so it partnered...

Tags: Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Ltd., data service, portable navigation device, suction-cup, cradle

Product reviews 2009-11-24

Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency

Businesses should use caution when procuring cloud services, according to the European agency charged with promoting IT security good practice. Businesses should use caution when procuring cloud services, according to the European agency charged with promoting IT security good practice. The European Network and Information Security...

Tags: Agency, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Strategy, Networking, Marketing, Management, cloud, business, Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

News items 2009-11-23

Spelling Depot 2010r1 (Windows)

Spelling Depot is the student and educator's one-stop solution for the practice, assessment, and ultimate mastery of spelling lists. Word lists can be generated within the program or imported from a word processor document. Each word can, optionally, include the word's definition. Word lists can be of any length. During...

Tags: Word, Microsoft Windows, Spelling Depot, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-23

FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual

Another glitch with a linux network? Its hard to believe people still use it for anything critical like the FAA and flight tracking. Its a toy OS and should not be used when the lives of people are dependent upon it.Cisco supplies the network backboneIt will be interesting to see...

Tags: Operating systems, Sun Solaris, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, network, FAA, operating system, Flight Plan, network glitch, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

WebLight 5.0.9 RC (Mac)

WebLight is a web testing tool that scans sites for non-standard HTML and broken links. It is designed to help web developers deliver reliable web sites on time.There are many web testing tools. WebLight makes web site testing practical.

Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Illumit L.L.C., WebLight, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-16

Altova XMLSpy Enterprise Edition 2010 (Windows)

Altova XMLSpy 2010 Enterprise Edition is the industry's best-selling XML editor and XML development environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML technologies. In addition to the world's leading XML editor, XMLSpy includes a powerful graphical XML Schema editor that allows you to design complex schemas with ease. Advanced error...

Tags: Altova, WSDL, XQuery, Microsoft Windows, XBRL, XPath, Altova XMLSpy, Altova XMLSpy 2010 Enterprise Edition, WSDL Designer, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-16

Altova XMLSpy Professional Edition 2010 (Windows)

Altova XMLSpy 2010 Professional Edition is the industry-leading XML editor and XML development environment, with intuitive editing views and powerful XML utilities to model, edit, transform, and debug XML-related technologies quickly and easily. In addition to the world's most popular XML editor, XMLSpy Professional includes a graphical XML Schema editor...

Tags: Altova, XML Schema, Microsoft Windows, XPath, Altova XMLSpy, Altova XMLSpy 2010 Professional Edition, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-16

VisualRoute 2010 14.0a (Windows)

VisualRoute combines the tools traceroute, ping, reverse DNS, and Whois into a single graphical interface that analyzes Internet connections to quickly locate where outages or slowdowns occur. An IP location database identifies the geographical location of IP addresses and Web servers, showing the path of an Internet connection on a...

Tags: Internet Connection, Network, IP, Server, Whois, Microsoft Windows, Hop, Visualware, VisualRoute, IP Location Database, Internet, Web Servers, Networking, Network Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-15

Spelling Depot 2010r1 (Mac)

Spelling Depot is the student and educator's one-stop solution for the practice, assessment, and ultimate mastery of spelling lists. Word lists can be generated within the program or imported from a word processor document. Each word can, optionally, include the word's definition. Word lists can be of any length. During...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Word, Spelling Depot, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-15