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The bug hunter
Management No application development process can be bug-free. In this Q&A, the author of Find the Bug: A Book of Incorrect Programs Adam Barr tells all about debugging.
How to avoid being outsourced
News IT workers need to become more business-savvy, move up the management ladder and keep up with the latest technical skills if they are to avoid being outsourced, says new guide.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Recruiting, Layoffs, Professional Development, Outsourcing
Staying relevant in new tech world
News Tech workers must analyze marketplace to identify skills that are in demand, and get training and commercial experience in these areas.
Tags: Trends, Personal development, Counsel, Compensation, Professional Development, Business, Technology, India, Training, Skill
Delphi developer/IT manager seeks advice about career slump
Insight An IT manager who has experience as a Delphi developer wants to know what to do with his skills now that the Delphi market seems to be waning. In fact, there might be a perfect solution for this Delphi developer's dilemma.
Web Services for apps integration
Insight Web Services will play a major role in function/method-oriented integration, which is one of the most commonly used patterns for enterprise and business-to-business application integration.
IBM, Microsoft clash over .Net and Java
News A Big Blue exec says that if programmers have to make any transition it should be to Java because .Net simply does not make sense for every situation.
IBM eyes programming for the masses
News QEDwiki project, which stands for quick and easily done wiki, lets end users build their own "enterprise mashups".
Tags: Software engineering/development, Business applications
Developers, wake up to XML Web services
News There have been sporadic instances in the history of computing when the visionaries among programmers have woken up and realised that they shouldn't be programming so much. What they really should be doing is creating useful systems and services.
Sun's McNealy swings at rivals
News Sun's feisty CEO puts up his dukes in a speech that jabs at IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft and the U.S. Congress.
IBM unmuzzles low-end "Raptor" mainframe
News Big Blue will debut its newest model in the old-guard mainframe line, a less-expensive system that can run only newer software.
IBM aims to get Rational
News IBM will pay US$2.1 billion in cash to acquire modeling tools company Rational Software, in a bid to win over more application developers.
