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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


Simple usability testing is easy with Optimal Workshop's tools

Simple usability testing is easy with Optimal Workshop's tools

Techguide Check out Optimal Workshop's Chalkmark and Treejack--these easy-to-use tools may be especially attractive if your development shop is on a limited budget.

Monday, March 23 2009 06:14 PM

Tags: Authoring, Software engineering/development, Usability, E-mail Address, Tool, Optimal Workshop, Treejack, Chalkmark, Authoring, Microsoft Developer Network


10 ways to manage your risk with Web applications

10 ways to manage your risk with Web applications

Techguide Web apps are becoming popular, but there are legitimate concerns about security and reliability. Learn how to address potential risks and choose the right vendor.

Friday, April 03 2009 09:25 AM

Tags: Web services, Software engineering/development, Risk Management, Vendor, Disaster Recovery, Security, Tool, Polly Schneider Traylor, Web Application, performance


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, JIT, Server, e-Mail Message, 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


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


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


User stories: The starting point in agile development

Techguide Rick Freedman explains how user stories can help agile developers understand users' expectations. He also discusses the three Cs, user role modeling and epic stories.

Thursday, October 01 2009 10:20 PM

Tags: IT project management, Software engineering/development, User Story, NEC Corp., Story, Detail, Development Effort, C, Information Technology, Human Resources Inc.


Using Bing from .NET

Techguide Justin James shares his recent Bing experience and provides a code snippet that will put you well on your way to writing a Bing-enabled application.

Thursday, October 01 2009 10:20 PM

Tags: Business applications, .NET, Software engineering/development, Namespace, LINQ, Simple Object Access Protocol, Microsoft Corp., WSDL, AppID, Business applications


Making the case for dynamic languages

Techguide Justin James presents reasons why developers should consider using dynamic languages. He also discusses how these languages trip up some developers.

Friday, September 11 2009 10:24 AM

Tags: Programming languages, Software engineering/development, Ruby, Language, C, Developer, C#, C++, Justin James, API


Consider alternatives to RDBMS

Techguide Applications are far too complex to force into the inherent limits of the relational database management systems model. Justin James encourages developers to explore their options.

Friday, September 04 2009 10:42 AM

Tags: Databases, Database management, Software engineering/development, RDBMS, database management system, Tool, Storage, Developer, Justin James, Programming


Code concepts: C#'s var keyword

Techguide Justin James explains in this overview, that var is used in variable declarations instead of a type, and also weighs differing opinions about what makes var useful.

Friday, August 14 2009 10:43 AM

Tags: Programming languages, Software engineering/development, Ruby, C#, Justin James, Microsoft Developer Network, Programming, blogging, Microsoft Visual Studio, PHP


Meeting user demands for real-time data may set you apart

Techguide When systems give users the expectation of real-time data but don't deliver it, users may get more frustrated, angry and confused than they would with a non real-time system.

Friday, May 29 2009 09:21 AM

Tags: Software engineering/development, Authoring, Search Engine, competitive advantage, Authoring, Microsoft Developer Network, Search Result, bank, industry, Web


Hands on with Mono 2.2

Techguide If you are writing an application designed to work on many platforms, Mono is still an alternative but it may not be a simple matter of "recompile and deploy" in many cases.

Sunday, April 19 2009 06:23 PM

Tags: Software engineering/development, Authoring, Microsoft Corp., C, system tray, C#, Authoring, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio, Mono


Get developers on board with SOA governance

Techguide A service-oriented architecture expert shares eight ways to coax developers to adopt SOA practices with little or no input, guidance or training.

Sunday, April 05 2009 01:59 PM

Tags: Web services, Software engineering/development, SOA, SOA Governance, outsourced development team, Developer, software, outsource, ROI, team


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Reviewing scheduled task inventory for Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server

Default installations of Windows Server 2008 R2 enumerate a number of default scheduled tasks, many of which you may not need.


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Carbon paper fascinated me when I was younger. Write once, get two copies. What a great invention and work tool, I thought.

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