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Symbian's open source journey

Symbian's open source journey

Insight newsmaker How do you open up a closed codebase? Symbian research chief David Wood weighs potential and practicality, and the promise of multicore phones.

Thursday, October 30 2008 09:33 PM

Tags: Smart phones, Open source, Software engineering/development, Software licensing, Smart Phone, Android, Plug-in, GPL, Symbian Inc., EPL


 Frustrated by a coworker's use of old-school methods?

Frustrated by a coworker's use of old-school methods?

Techguide What do you do when a veteran developer isn't open-minded about the benefits of modern programming techniques?

Thursday, February 26 2009 10:16 PM

Tags: Authoring, Software engineering/development, Business applications, IBM Corp., Fear, Tool, object-oriented, Authoring, career, IDE


Tips to make your apps more secure

Tips to make your apps more secure

Techguide Find out what Microsoft's security chief says, developers need to do better to make their applications more secure.

Sunday, February 01 2009 03:08 PM

Tags: Software engineering/development, Security Management, Data security, PC security, Microsoft Corp., Security, Training, Microsoft Windows Vista, Developer, operating system


Safest way to sanitize input

Techguide Sanitizing user input is a critical part of secure software development, but software can be made more secure by avoiding having to sanitize input altogether.

Tuesday, December 16 2008 11:25 AM

Tags: Software engineering/development, Data security, Security Management, Ruby, E-mail Address, Web Browser, e-Mail Message, JIT, Server, e-mail


Google's Chrome will change enterprise support

Techguide Criticisms aside, Chrome shows Google is sensitive to the way people use Web applications. Supporting users who live life in the cloud may be getting easier.

Wednesday, September 10 2008 01:31 PM

Tags: Web browsers, Software engineering/development, Google Chrome, Web Browser, Google Inc., Web Application, Back Button, window, Google Apps, Web


Try command-line looping for added efficiency

Techguide Using loops, you can take often-used commands that would normally be executed in sequence manually, and have them done automatically. Find out what you need to know about getting started with loops.

Monday, October 13 2008 01:29 PM

Tags: Linux, Open source, Software engineering/development, Command, Security, Loop, Mandriva, Vincent Danen, CLI, Programming


Subversion with ViewVC

Techguide Here's a walk-through of the basics of Web-based ViewVC, which is a Web-frontend to both subversion and Concurrent Versions System.

Monday, March 30 2009 09:10 AM

Tags: Open source, Software engineering/development, Repository, Apache Software Foundation, Web Browser, Concurrent Versions System, Tool, ViewVC, Subversion, HTTPS


Developing peer-to-peer applications with Jabber

Techguide Find out how to make use of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol to P2P-enable your applications.

Friday, August 29 2008 01:55 PM

Tags: Java, Software engineering/development, Peer to peer, TCP, Jabber, Connection, F/OSS, P2P, Password, Service Parameter


Do Web developers have to know HTML?

Techguide TechRepublic's Tony Patton says he can't accept a so-called Web developer who doesn't fully understand the technology used to create his applications.

Friday, August 08 2008 06:30 AM

Tags: Business applications, Software engineering/development, Web Browser, Tool, W3C, CSS, Ian Lloyd, JavaScript, knowledge, Web Developer


ROI for dev projects: What not to forget

Techguide When measuring your development project’s ROI, it’s important to go beyond the basic calculation.

Friday, August 15 2008 06:45 AM

Tags: Project management, Software engineering/development, Project, Development Project, Sales, 401(k) plan, ROI, Salary, Microsoft Developer Network, VP


Do cloud computing and parallel processing lack use cases?

Techguide There are really no killer apps for cloud computing or parallel processing, and reasons why the two are not bigger trends than they should be, says industry watcher Justin James.

Friday, November 14 2008 06:43 AM

Tags: Business applications, Software engineering/development, Parallel Processing, Backup, CPU, Developer, Cloud Computing, Server, Use Case, multi-threading


How supercomputers still influence programming

Techguide Want to know what programmers may be doing 20 years from now? You should take a look at what supercomputers are doing today.

Friday, November 21 2008 09:57 AM

Tags: Software engineering/development, Supercomputing, Mainframe, Cray Inc., CPU, Computer, Programming, processor, supercomputer, industry


Create a complex type using XML schema inheritance

Techguide Using inheritance, it is possible to create a complex type and then create an element that extends it by adding elements or attributes. Edmond Woychowsky shows how he fudged inheritance using XSLT.

Monday, December 08 2008 01:04 PM

Tags: Software engineering/development, XML, XML Schema, Altova, XSL, XSLT, style sheet, Star Trek, UTF-8, XML


Microsoft embraces open source with jQuery

Techguide Microsoft plans to integrate the JQuery library into both the ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET Model View Controller frameworks. Tony Patton outlines how jQuery may work within an ASP.NET application.

Friday, December 19 2008 12:08 PM

Tags: Software engineering/development, .NET, Open source, Java, Microsoft Corp., Library, Plug-in, Animation, CSS, Plugin Architecture


Five mistakes to avoid with mashups

Techguide It's an exciting possibility that end users will be able to design mashups for their own purposes without having to wait for IT to build the interface. Check out the five common mistakes to avoid with mashups.

Friday, December 26 2008 09:12 AM

Tags: Web services, Software engineering/development, Security, SOA, SOA governance, Fast Company, vision, mashup, information technology, Web services


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OpenAmplify developer's diary - part three: Topic intention comparisons

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Justin James chronicles his process of using Hapax's OpenAmplify Web service to create an application that can match documents with content that is similar or identical to the source document.


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What Y2K can teach us about 2012

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Dec. 21, 2012. It's a big day on the calendar, particularly because some believe it marks the last day of the world as we know it. The apocalypse. Armageddon.

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