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Microsoft shows Singularity with OS from the lab
Microsoft used its annual TechFest gathering of research lab technicians in Redmond last week to launch a new prototype operating system called Singularity. Read more »
Amazon chief: Web Services ready for takeoff
Launched five years ago, Web Services business "is an investment," says CEO Jeff Bezos. Read more »
Zope launch next-generation application server
The open-source organisation has released the first version of Zope X3, which has been completely rewritten to improve the architecture. Read more »
British Telecom Global Services Ignites wide-area SOAs
British Telecom hopes a new SOA product will persuade big businesses to experiment with distributed applications. Read more »
BEA lights US$87.5m fire under its SOA ambitions
Fuego has been acquired to give BEA's offerings a BPM boost. Read more »
SOA arguments 'drowning in alphabet soup'
A report indicates that arguments about the benefits of SOAs are not be in communicated to those at the top of businesses that could use them. Read more »
Gates: XML and SOAs are the future
Web services standards and the emergence of service-oriented architectures are showing us the direction the Internet needs to move in, according to the Microsoft chairman. Read more »
Software as a service hits sweet spot
So say the vendors... but are they right? Read more »
Vista gets snubbed for XP by Windows developers
A new survey has found that an overwhelming majority of developers writing applications for Windows are ignoring Vista in favour of XP or older versions of the Microsoft operating system. Read more »
Oracle joins Microsoft developer program
Oracle has pledged to make its database software work better with Microsoft's development tools. Read more »
Features (318)
Are you ready for 64-bit architecture development?
Many chipmakers have announced desktop-ready CPU chips based on 64-bit architecture. Will such desktops lead to a migration to 64-bit architecture development in the coming year? And, more importantly, will you be ready for it? Read more »
Development architecture saves time
The establishment of a detailed development architecture will provide your organisation with decision making guidance. Such a framework can guide decisions concerning the application development life cycle, reducing costs and increasing efficiencies. Read more »
Architectural standards in a .NET environment
One of the most challenging aspects of being an architect is implementing your architectural designs in the development environment. Luckily, the .NET environment is built on a series of templates and scripts that you can modify to let developers start from a known state. Read more »
Using C++ templates
Templates are a relatively new addition to C++, and they introduce the concept of generic programming. But before you dive into creating C++ templates, what are their advantages and disadvantages? Read more »
Flexible software architectures on rise
A long-established concept called a "service-oriented architecture" will give businesses better return on their IT dollars and keep the software industry vibrant, analysts say. Read more »
Enhance reuse by embracing a service-oriented architecture
Thinking of your apps strictly in terms of components can limit your reuse options. Find out how to increase your options by defining applications as services. Read more »
Commonly used architectural patterns in Java applications
This article uses two patterns, layering and partitioning, to illustrate the importance of the relationships between the packages that compose your applications. Read more »
How to design a service-oriented architecture using Web services
If you're a consultant preparing for the Web services revolution, this is the advice that will make you the architect and most trusted adviser on the project. Read more »
Application Design: Writing design documents that cannot be stolen
Explaining the architectural design of your application solution to customers is a fine art. Write your design documents with an eye toward protecting your competitive advantage. Express your architectural solution without revealing the details. Read more »
Does J2EE live up to expectations?
J2EE may be a dominant force in software architecture, but does it live up to the hype? If not, where does it fall short? Read more »
Blog (16)
Enterprise Architecture has failed in a big way
-- Most EA initiatives failed. My guess is that more than 90% never really resulted in anything useful. Read more »
Developer creates Mac UI for Java apps
-- Java developers may soon be able to get their apps looking less ugly and more Mac-like if a promising new project continues. Read more »
Adobe Developer Week
-- Adobe recently ran a series of online conferences via Breeze under the banner of Adobe Developer Week. There was a great and diverse range of topics on offer; including Flex, LiveCycle, ColdFusion, Apollo, Model Glue, RIAs, Ajax, ActionScipt 3 and security. Read more »
The good and truly awful celluloid depictions of computers
-- Ever wonder why your lawyer uncle leaves the room whenever you turn over to Boston Legal? Or why your forensic science cousin can't stand crime drama? You know the answer: it’s the horrid trivialisation and dumbing down of an occupation to make it appear entertaining. Sometimes it is so unbelievable that it actually hurts and yelling at the screen is the only outlet. Read more »
NICTA: Aussies should focus on embedded programming not VB
-- The CEO of the national ICT research centre says the future of Aussie developers should focus on building better embedded and wireless applications and focus less on technologies such as Visual Basic. Read more »
Confirmation: Vista is about nothing
-- The man who has made a career from making humourous observations on the mundane things in life, is bringing his skills to promoting a slighted OS. It looked good on paper: get Jerry Seinfeld, one of the world's most successful clean comedians, to promote Vista. But was it really thought through? Read more »
The future remains yesterday
-- Remember when MySQL was blazingly fast and cared little for SQL standards? When MySQL regarded a view as something nice from your window and a trigger was treated as a weaponry component? Those days are set to return with a MySQL fork called Drizzle. Read more »
Outsourcing made wrong – a real case
-- A few days ago I wrote about how outsourcing goes wrong. Now I will explain more in detail with a real case. Read more »
Lets Shindig!
-- At this year's Google Developer Day in Sydney, Dan Peterson and John Hjelmstad talked about Apache Shindig, an open source implementation of OpenSocial and gadgets. Read more »
Outsourcing made wrong
-- Outsourcing is hot! Every major corporation around the globe is outsourcing all or part of their software development -- and unfortunately the result is lots of unsuccessful projects. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.