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RSS programmerExpressLayout Control: an Introduction
White Paper Gone are the days of users accepting output in the rigid form originally provided by the mainframe programmer. Today's audience expects to display their data every which way. Developer Express products have always... [03 Jul 2008]
Countermeasures Against Buffer Overflow Attacks
White Paper In theory, if every programmer learned to write better, more defensive code, the problem would go away. Buffer overflow problems are caused by programming errors. In practice this is not likely to occur. [03 Jul 2008]
GNOME Usability Study Report
White Paper It's our expressed goal of joining fully in the development activities, with the idea that a non-programmer user is our target customer. GNOME is a great example of distributed development by the open source community. [03 Jul 2008]
WebEx Executive Summary of the “Dial Tone” Application Programmer’s Interface
White Paper When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he created a simple point to point solution for real time voice communication. Shortly thereafter, commercialization of telephony led to the advent of operators assisting callers by... [03 Jul 2008]
Intel Compiler Code-Coverage and Test-Prioritization Tools
White Paper Both tools improve software quality and performance as well as increase programmer productivity. This paper introduces two related tools that are based on Intel Compiler Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) technology. [30 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up He's been a programmer, a visionary, a populist and a target for custard pie throwers both real and metaphorical. Brilliant technologist, ruthless businessman, chino-trousered philanthropist, founder of the most... [27 Jun 2008]
Claire Hamon
CIO Profile Hamon brings a solid technical background to the CIO role, having studied computing at the London Computer Electronic School and cut her teeth as a programmer. Claire Hamon joined the construction and building... [11 Jun 2008]
Using Intel Thread Profiler for Win32 Threads: Philosophy and Theory
White Paper For serial applications this was useful information that guided the programmer to those parts of the code that could most benefit from optimization or threading. In the past, software profiling tools have concentrated on... [31 May 2008]
IT Developer Speeds Time-to-Market Using Open XML Formats
White Paper To stay competitive and open to innovations in the software development market, Programmer's opted to use Open XML Formats when developing its electronic invoicing application. Programmer's enjoyed a 50... [30 Apr 2008]
Comparing SQL Server 2005 and IBM UDB DB2 8.2: Focus on Developer Productivity
White Paper The features discussed include both the database features and programming tools available on both platforms and how these features affect programmer productivity. This paper compares and contrasts SQL Server 2005 and DBA... [30 Apr 2008]
Open source: 'World's largest software company'
News The open source community's programmer-hours, if added up, would place it as the largest software employer in the world, the study said. Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many... [22 Apr 2008]
Gazing into the technological future
News Recycling and automating code to increase programmer performance 100-fold Self-charging devices and real-time language translation are among technologies pinpointed by future gazers that will change the world. [14 Apr 2008]
Symbian OS C++ for Windows C++ Programmers
White Paper This paper discusses some issues that a typical Windows C++ programmer will encounter when approaching Symbian OS for the first time. While one reason for Symbian's success may be the desire of many mobile phone... [10 Apr 2008]
Effective Memory Utilization for Reliable, High-Performance Java Applications
White Paper Java was intended to be an environment free from memory errors associated with programmer-managed memory, which are common in C and C++. While a significant number of problems were eliminated, other types of memory... [10 Apr 2008]
A Comparison of Mobile Agent and Client-Server Paradigms for Information Retrieval Tasks in Virtual Enterprises
White Paper We argue that to be successful mobile agent platforms must coexist with, and be presented to the applications programmer side-by-side with, traditional client-server middleware like CORBA and DCOM, and we sketch... [10 Apr 2008]
