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Borland gets personal with new tools

Borland's Core SDP suite has analyst, architect, developer and tester modules to help cater for different aspects of application development. Read more »

Borland buys into project management

Borland Software has acquired Legadero, a small, privately held company, to fill out Borland's line of software development tools. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to be announced Monday, were not disclosed. Read more »

Borland to wield tools against Microsoft

The revived company readies a software suite to compete against Microsoft's popular Visual Studio.Net. But can it really go toe-to-toe with the tech giant? Read more »

Sun's Tiger aims to tame Java programming

Sun Microsystems has released an early edition of software that will form the underpinnings of future Java applications for desktop computers. Read more »

Windows developers take Borland to task

Coders using Borland's C++Builder IDE are demanding that the company continue supporting and developing it. Read more »

Sybase sees RFID as saviour

The database firm wants to manage information sent in by remote devices. Read more »

Microsoft places bet on Whitehorse

Microsoft this year will seek to distance itself from Java rivals with tools designed to streamline how Windows-based business software is built and used. Read more »

Microsoft prepares for Yukon, Longhorn

The software company readies new development tools before planned releases of revamped database and Windows operating system software. Read more »

Eclipse lights up Java crowd

A little more than a year ago, detractors painted the Eclipse open-source project as nothing more than a ploy by IBM to sell its own software. Today, by most accounts, it's the center of innovation in the Java tools industry. Read more »

Features (19)

Application Lifecycle Management Overview

If you have a group of programmers, their managers and your customers, each with their own way of tracking where a project is up to and whether milestones have been met -- chances are you need software to enforce efficient processes and reporting. This is where application lifecycle management (ALM) products fill their niche. Read more »

Case Study: Powerlan and Application Lifecycle Management

For a company that makes software for a living, having suitable application lifecycle management tools is essential to ensuring a quality outcome for clients. Read more »

Totally RAD: we road test five IDEs

Builder AU technical editor, David McAmis gets down and dirty with the most popular IDE's to see how they they stack up as Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools. Read more »

Maximise DataSnap efficiency in Delphi

Delphi's DataSnap technology, formerly known as MIDAS, enables you to construct multitier applications. See how to get the DataSnap Server and the DataSetProvider components to work together. Read more »

Sydney set to play host to Borcon 2002

Borland Software Corporation are set to run the 5th annual Borcon 2002 Conference for developers in Syndey from 27-30 Jul. Here is an introduction on what you might expect from the event. Read more »

Developer spotlight:Danny Thorpe

Danny Thorpe is the chief scientist at Borland Software, and was part of the original team that developed Delphi. Builder magazine caught up with Danny to talk about the move to .NET, Kylix, and the future of Delphi. Read more »

Delphi's TJPEGImage lets you transform BMPs to JPEGs

Converting files can be a time consuming hassle. This article will walk you through the code that converts BMPs to JPEGs and then converts them back to BMPs. Read more »

IBM gets Rational with open source

Big Blue's tools division is expected to detail its plans for using software from the open source project Eclipse to make its products better integrated and to accelerate development. Read more »

Debug your Java code with ease using JPDA

The Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA) helps developers debug a running Java application in all situations. Peter V. Mikhalenko explains how this technology works and discusses some practical aspects of its usage. Read more »

Model-Driven Development today

Model Driven Design promises to cut development time, reduce bugs, and increase maintainability. Pipe dreams? Maybe not according to Matthew Overington. Read more »

Blog (3)

CodeGear ready Ruby release

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- CodeGear have announced this week they will be releasing an integrated development environment(IDE) for Ruby on Rails developers in the second half of 2007. Read more »

CodeGear Q&A

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- CodeGear is the new name for Borland's developer tools business. Builder AU spoke to CodeGear about the handover and direction of the developer tools business under the new banner. Read more »

The break-up of Borland

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- This week I caught up with David Intersomone, VP of developer relations worldwide, and Malcolm Groves, regional product director for Asia Pacific, from Borland's Developer Tools Group to talk about the immediate and planned future of the group once this division is sold by Borland. Read more »

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