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Talent crunch raises some CIO salaries
News Hudson attributes overall higher pay packages to competition among banks to attract top IT talent; reveals latest IT salary guide for four Asian countries.
Tags: IT Management
The skills to pay the bills
Management Learning the right skills to keep on top of the game in software development is a thorny topic. We examine the skills, both technical and soft, employers are seeking in 2005 and beyond.
Tags: IT training
Review: five reporting tools
Insight A round-up of five popular reporting tools for application developers.
Tags: Software
Dreamweaver lives up to MX-pectations
Insight Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX offers a powerful punch for Web designers, as well as back-end programmers. To test this version's new features, a loyal hand-coder weighs in on whether Dreamweaver is now a viable alternative.
BEA's growing pains
News newsmaker Things have changed since the go-go days of the Internet boom. Can BEA Systems CEO Alfred Chuang realize his US$3 billion dream?
IBM keeps mainframe flame burning
News The z990 system, code-named T-Rex, spearheads Big Blue's effort to insure that its mainframes--under fierce competition from Unix and Windows servers--aren't doomed to extinction.
Language barriers on the Web?
News The W3C introduces a second version of XHTML that won't be compatible with its predecessors, completing a migration to XML while creating anxiety among Web developers.
New database war shapes up
News IBM's information project threatens to roil the competitive database market.
Open source's next frontier
News Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.
Tags: Open source
The future of Java
Insight In a dialogue session in Australia last week with local developers, Java founder James Gosling addressed extensively on issues about the future of Java.
Tags: Java
ColdFusion's Java connection
Techguide Macromedia calls CFML "a scripting layer for J2EE." The ability to integrate Java into ColdFusion provides all sorts of opportunities, including access to freely and commercially available Java libraries; features in the standard Java and J2EE libraries; and your own Java code. In some cases, this can mean access to functionality that's simply not available in ColdFusion.
With that in mind, let's see how a ColdFusion developer hooks into the underlying power of Java with the help of a few simple functions.
Get your feet wet with Sun's tiny Java DB
Techguide Java DB is a lightweight, standards-based database management system that is written completely in Java and can be embedded into applications.
Tags: Database management, Java
It's time for better Web frameworks
Techguide There is currently a huge disconnect between the needs of Web applications and the frameworks that support them.
Tags: Web sites, Web services
Next IM adoption wave arriving soon
Insight Instant messaging is a popular consumer tool that hasn't taken deep root in the enterprise. But that may change soon.
The challenges of mobile development
Insight There's a huge gulf separating mobile applications from the desktop world. There is a need for careful planning before it's too late.
