The design, development and documentation of software. See software engineer, systems analysis & design, programming, object-oriented programming, software metrics, CASE and Systemantics.
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- Is Google the Center of the Universe?
- It's not even a year since the triumphalism of Jeff Jarvis's Google 'reverse engineering' book 'What Would Google Do?' hit the book shelves, but it seems an age ago now. Jarvis's publisher Harper Collins claims this book is 'all about you' in their promo blurb - how you...
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- Google's Chrome OS: Will you give up desktop apps?
- I won't ntntI can'tI'm not online 24/7. I need local apps, as does everyone else. Say what you want. But network outages happen... Weather by forces of nature or human error, a network will eventually go down. It's only a matter of time. And knowing Google's past GMail outages, I...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Royal Navy gets creative in attracting engineers - develop online game
- Engineering is not what it used to be. There used to be only 10 or so basic engineering degrees one could graduate with. Now there are hundreds (some even argue it's triple that) of specialties. Most are in demand all over the world. The technology revolution is moving at a...
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- HP Pavilion Elite owner resorts to lawsuit over 'inherently defective' PC
- My HP Pavilion Elite... / HP quality controlMy HP Pavilion Elite came with an obviously defective, and defectively designed, video card. After about eight months, the video card model was finally recalled.My previous HP desktop computer went for about five years without a problem.HP's quality control is clearly going down...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Live Webcast: High Performance Workstations that Rock for Engineering and Entertainment!
- High performance workstations are important tools of the trade for a growing number of businesses and industries that rely on specialized programs and applications. Nowhere is this more the case perhaps than the two very different worlds of engineering and entertainment. In both industries, the most important factors...
- Webcasts 2009-11-16
- Understanding Enterprise 2.0 Tolerances & Scale
- We're at an interesting intersection in the collaboration world where projects both large and small tend to be discussed with the same terms. This can be very confusing to the lay person since it's hard to know what sort of scale is being described. ...
- Blog posts 2009-11-14
- My scareware night and how McAfee lost a customer
- With their Comcast and AT&T dealsMcAfee has a huge market share hereit pretty much does nothing to prevent being infected by these rogue antivirus attacks.I have found Combofix (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix)is the most effective tool to remove these things but even that isn't 100%.Usually you will want to rename it before you...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them
- And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL?
- ProbablyA microsoft programmer probably used code he found in the net(IE code-plex...) instead of developping his own code...At school the programmer would have failed his course, here MS will face, once aggain, the wrath of Stallman's little cultists.if true they should get penalize ntnt It was a CodePlex project?Well...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Motorola and Palm; will 2009 be designated as a comeback year?
- wrongwell matthew, because you have been wrong consistently about the smartphone market the last few years i would argue they are both doomed, when you like them. the pre doesn't help palm as it should regardless of critical acclaim and motorola will participate in the race to the bottom (margin...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Clean install with Windows 7 upgrade media? Get the facts!
- Unbelievable"Last week I complained about Microsoft?s shoddy documentation of how its upgrade procedures are supposed to work. I?m delighted to report that I got a tremendous and immediate response from within Microsoft, offering assistance in my testing and also promising to clean up and expand their documentation."So what exactly did...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services
- DumbWhat a dumb move their Accounting software was one of the best products they had.Anyone notice a trend?Dumping Money, dumping Office Accounting, and all at a time when the Feds are increasingly regulating Financial firms. While MS is clearly not a "Financial" Company it looks alot like they are...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Software that automatically fixes itself, without shutting down
- Invariant DetectionThis is supposing that the software is simple enough to determine invariants and not block valid code paths that are infrequently used. It sounds a lot like applying design by contract after the fact.Software That Fixes Itself?The headline implies an application that fixes itself. The article describes and...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Edraw Max 5.0 (Windows)
- Edraw Max enables students, teachers and business professionals to reliably create and publish kinds of diagrams to represent any ideas. Edraw provides you a versatile, easy, quick and professional solution to let you enjoy your working. In a corporate environment, the folks over in human resources need to be able...
- Software downloads 2009-10-28
- Dear Microsoft: What's the deal with Windows 7 upgrades?
- Location?38.921473?N 77.066946?WYep, same here ...... stonewalled at every turn. With you ...... I can see, because you've been pulling on Microsoft's scab lately. But in Ed's case, I don't know why they would treat him like that.^o^Message has been deleted..Believe it or not ...... it makes little difference. The...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- SAP regaining its mojo?
- Earlier today at SAP TechEd Vienna, Jim Hageman Snabe, SAP senior vice president in charge of products said: "Business ByDesign will be multi-tenant." It was almost a throw away line in a broad conversation discussing SAP's slow conversion to all things SaaS and cloud computing. I...
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Can you teach programmers to be journalists?
- Megan Taylor over at PBS' MediaShift writes about the challenges of getting programmers and journalists to work together.MediaShift . Can Programmers, Journalists Get Along in One Newsroom? | PBS It's an interesting subject because newsrooms are increasingly digital and they need to add programming skills to help...
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- RationalPlan Multi Project 3.15.6 (Windows)
- RationalPlan Multi Project by Stand By Soft is a powerful project management software designed to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workload. If you are working in the area of construction, engineering, services&consulting, business, software development or even working on a simple...
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- RationalPlan Single Project 3.15.6 (Mac)
- RationalPlan Single Project by Stand By Soft is a powerful project management software designed to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workload. You can use RationalPlan in the area of construction, engineering, services&consulting, business, software development or even for a simple student...
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- RationalPlan Multi Project 3.15.6 (Mac)
- RationalPlan Multi Project by Stand By Soft is a powerful project management software designed to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workload. If you are working in the area of construction, engineering, services&consulting, business, software development or even working on a simple...
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
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