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Yahoo layoffs start as MS deal looms

Yahoo yesterday internationally began dropping the axe on employees, following through on a promise to cut its workforce by at least 10 per cent in an effort to right its financially listing ship. Read more »

Building quality code, not testing for quality

Involve quality in the entire application development process, instead of concentrating on it only from the software debugging stage, industry watchers have urged companies. Read more »

Microsoft criticises single-platform strategy

Microsoft said this week that companies with a single-platform IT strategy would spend more on maintenance in the long term. Read more »

EMC Australia launches consulting services

Following in the footsteps of its United States and United Kingdom operations, EMC today announced the launch of consulting services for Asia Pacific and Japan as well as Latin America. Read more »

Gates looks back on 30 years at Microsoft

If you were to ask Bill Gates what life will be like when he stops working full time at Microsoft, he'd have to get back to you.Read more »

Gates talks about the future before farewell

For years, Bill Gates has been trumpeting software's ascent from the lowly PC to everything from mobile phones to home entertainment. In this interview before his farewell speech, Gates talks about competitors, the future of DVD, and why all of those seamless connections between digital devices exist only in keynote speeches. Read more »

Gartner: Prepare for consumer-led IT

Gartner analysts predict there will be a large-scale shift in technology influence toward consumers and away from central corporate IT departments. Read more »

Microsoft puts key security under Windows umbrella

As part of its ongoing reorganisation, Microsoft on Thursday in the US moved more responsibility for its security efforts into its Windows unit. Read more »

Allchin to retire amid MS reorganisation

Microsoft on Tuesday announced a sweeping reorganisation of the company into three new divisions, a shift that will lead to the retirement of longtime Windows development chief Jim Allchin. Read more »

Intel's 3D divorce rate

Developers of three-dimensional rendering technology for the Web known as X3D are bracing for a standards war with Intel--a former backer of the project--just as their recently sundered collaboration bears fruit. Read more »

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The benefits of agile development

I recently spoke to Scott Ambler, Practice Leader Agile Development, Rational Software from IBM about the benefits of the agile development method. Read more »

Why use Agile Methods?

In this weeks column, Extreme Programming guru Steve Hayes shares some business arguments for using XP in your shop. Read more »

Using Agile Software Development, part three

In our final article for this series, we see how the development team interacts with the customer, and how to get them involved in the process. Read more »

Using Agile Software Development, part two

We've seen how Agile Development affects each developer individually, so now we'll look at how the whole development team adopts Agile practises. Read more »

Agile Modelling with IBM's Scott Ambler

You may already be doing agile modelling and not realise it according to Scott Ambler, head of Agile Development at Rational Software. Read more »

Using Agile Software Development, part 1

In the first in a series of three articles, we'll take you through the key practices of Agile - how to use them, what problems you might face and what you'll get from them. Read more »

80% of software is no brain work: Ivar Jacobson

Efficiency, Code Reuse and Artificial Intelligence -- we sat down with one of the inventors of UML and the RUP to talk about how the software industry has to change in the next five years. Read more »

What is refactoring?

Wish you could turn back the clock on a development project? Methodology expert Steve Hayes shows how to correct the mistakes of the past with refactoring. Read more »

Developer Spotlight: Kent Beck

Kent Beck is one of the three creators of the agile process extreme programming (XP), and author of JUnit. Builder magazine caught up with Beck to talk agile methods and his future plans with software company Agitar. Read more »

The Extreme Programming Bill of Rights

Resident Builder AU columnist Steve Hayes tackles some common misconceptions of XP and explores customer, management and programmers rights. Read more »

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