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On Dependency Changes in Collaborative Software Development

whitepaper Survey responses from 148 software developers indicate that the frequency of occurrence of dependency changes is negatively correlated with project duration, configuration management tool usage, and software developers experience with the...

Tags: programming languages

[16 May 2008]

Key Principles for Business-Driven Development

whitepaper As the paper noted at the beginning, the principles have evolved from their origins over a decade ago, when software developers generally worked in a somewhat more limited context. The knowledge about software development, along with the overall...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Java - 100 per cent open source by end of this year

News The process of clearing encumbrances is complex, and has involved close collaboration between Sun engineers and members of the Free Java community including developers working on GNU Classpath and the IcedTea project.

Tags: linux, java, sun

[28 Apr 2008]

Requirements Management Practices for Developers

whitepaper The goal of this paper is to illustrate the important requirements management role developers play on successful software project teams. Additionally, the paper will provide requirements management implementation tips that developers can apply to...

Tags: software engineering, developers, requirements management, play

[10 Apr 2008]

Porting to Linux for the Intel Itanium Architecture

whitepaper This paper will also discuss more recent software design technologies to help software developers effectively address portability and enable them to design software that is easy to port and easy to maintain.

Tags: linux - open source, portability, subject, enable

[10 Apr 2008]

Software Estimation Best Practices Â- Level 200   

whitepaper Developers that want to get better at software estimation should embrace some basic practices. Developers will not want to miss this presentation and the opportunity to be set on the road to estimation success.

Tags: software engineering, practices, estimation, plan

[03 Apr 2008]

Microsoft mobile - king of open world?

News The star of application-rich mobile phones, Apple's iPhone, has been met with criticism from the open source community and even confusion by major software developers like Adobe. He added: "As it turns out you can crack an iPhone, or you have this...

Tags: mobile, linux, iphone, microsoft

[20 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08

Round-Up Next, Microsoft will be saying it won't sue open-source developers who create non-commercial software based on its protocols. The leader of the Linux kernel project, which is one of the chief open source threats to Windows, had words of praise for...

Tags: microsoft, torvalds, robots, open source

[29 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 15.02.08

Round-Up In a deafening cacophony of ringtones that could be heard from outer space (and underwater), handset vendors, mobile operators, developers and journalists descended on Barcelona for a state of the nation address this week at the Mobile World...

Tags: microsoft, mobile, green, mobile world congress

[15 Feb 2008]

Ensuring Code Quality in Multi-threaded Applications

whitepaper To fully leverage this new class of multi-core hardware, software developers must change the way they create applications. By turning their focus to multi-threaded applications, developers will be able to take full advantage of multi-core devices...

Tags: software project management, core, multi, software development

[07 Feb 2008]

Nokia to buy Trolltech and keep it on the Qt

News Öistämö said: "The Qt tools… allow developers to build applications across different types of devices and PCs. Qt is used to develop graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and is the main GUI toolkit for the KDE Linux project, one of the two main desktop...

Tags: nokia, linux, trolltech, handsets

[28 Jan 2008]

Software Testing and Quality Assurance White Papers

whitepaper Also common are project teams, which include a mix of testers and developers who work closely together, with overall QA processes monitored by project managers. Software Quality Assurance (QA) at Pointe Technology is oriented to ?

Tags: software engineering, responsibility, oriented, testing

[06 Jan 2008]

Windows Vista - why you shouldn't skip it

News The advice is also that larger organisations with lots of in-house developed applications should consider forklift deployments, because their developers would be responsible for supporting all homegrown applications on multiple OSs, which would...

Tags: vista, migration, xp, microsoft

[07 Dec 2007]

Reclaiming Development Productivity in a Global World

whitepaper As the number of developers, product features, releases, and sites grow it becomes harder to meet project deadlines. Software and systems development is growing complex. Communication breaks down, quality issues surface late, and schedules slip.

Tags: high availability, projects, ibm rational, track

[29 Nov 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.11.07

Round-Up There were banners fluttering in the breeze, high above the concourse of the San Francisco conference hall hosting the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in 2004. Good news: the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has a customer - the Uruguayan...

Tags: chip and bin, round-up, $100 laptop, bbc

[02 Nov 2007]

Photos of the month - October 2007

Photo Virtual-world developers are getting more grounded with the help of 3D models that can be imported from Google's 3D Warehouse. St Pancras train station is nearing the end of a 10-year renovation project which will see it become London's Eurostar...

Tags: photos, zune, virtual worlds, games

[31 Oct 2007]

Producing Open Source Software: Social and Political Infrastructure

whitepaper Operational health is the project's ongoing ability to incorporate new code contributions and new developers, and to be responsive to incoming bug reports. Survivability is the project's ability to exist independently of any individual participant...

Tags: infrastructure management, health, achieve, foundation

[17 Oct 2007]

Real world terrain coming to the virtual sphere

News The idea is simple: Multiverse's technology - which gives game developers tools to design custom virtual worlds - will let those designers pick and choose from most of the millions of 3D models created using Google's 3D software tool SketchUp, and...

Tags: multiverse, google earth, virtual world

[09 Oct 2007]

Australian Bureau of Statistics Turns to Enterprise Data Warehousing for Census 2006

whitepaper While database administrators are the greatest beneficiaries, Sawade said his team of developers also found the software extremely useful. The challenge was to install powerful, reliable, and scalable database platform for critical, large-scale...

Tags: storage management, statistics, oracle enterprise manager, oracle discoverer

[05 Sep 2007]

Gaming Company Gets Projects Back on Track: Korean Gaming Leader Saves Money With Help From Project Management Software

whitepaper Huh and his fellow project managers realized that they needed to use modern project management software, just as developers used the latest game design software. As a project manager for Korean gaming leader Webzen, Huh oversees 63 game developers...

Tags: application servers, microsoft office, game, developers

[31 Aug 2007]

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