Shortly after the release of C# Builder, Borland will sell a bundle of applications that address the different phases of the development process, from modelling and design to actual coding and testing, said Michael Swindell, Borland's director of...
Two more phases are planned for Rave, Green said: one that allows for expansion so software can include desktop computers as well as Web servers and database servers, and another that extends to mobile devices such as mobile phones.
Ensuring that core IT processes are operationally excellent - singular and repeatable, well understood, consistent, measured, scalable and constantly improving. The second major focus, using portfolio management as the language to categorise...
Beyond the new products, Ballmer focused on familiar themes, such as Microsoft's recent advances on the security front, increasing partnerships with rival software makers and improving efficiency and effectiveness for developers.
Forget the Unified Modelling Language (UML - a developer notation tool designed to help people define technical architectures in business terms). The IT people are more comfortable with use cases and UML artefacts.
Google admitted that the system is comparable to long-established projects such as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), which is often used in Ajax web programming. Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a...