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New age dawns at Eclipse

Eclipse, an increasingly influential open-source development tools project, will kick off its first programmer conference next week amid strong industry momentum and lingering questions regarding its future direction. Read more »

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UML needs fixing claims founder

One of the creators of the Unified Modeling Language, Ivar Jacobson, claims the technology has become too big and needs to be simplified. Read more »

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Ivar Jacobson: Developers are too fashionable

One of the fathers of software development processes says the industry is too fashionable, needs to stop re-inventing the wheel, and focus on being more creative. Read more »

An introduction to UML

In our first article in our three-part series on the Unified Modelling Language (UML) we introduce key elements of the modelling language, its history and how to pick a UML tool. Read more »

Licensing developers won't work

Tony Healy writes why proposed compulsory licensing of IT professionals by the Australian Computer Society are flawed. Read more »

Digging code: Software archaeology

At first glance, business software developers have little in common with Indiana Jones. But the emerging field of software archaeology applies some of the same skills, if not the dashing adventure. Read more »

Thinking more like Booch

I'd be the first one to say that talking about the future of software development and the computing world is a difficult endeavour. Read more »

UML modeling simplifies software design

UML combines best practices, platform independence, and extensibility into a common language for modeling complex software solutions. Read more »

Web services: Messiah or mirage?

Software vendors keep telling us that Web services are the answer. But what is the question? ZDNet Australia explores the state of Web services today. Read more »

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Ivar Jacobson acquires Aussie consultancy company

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- The consultancy company led by the software pioneer, Ivar Jacobson, announced overnight it has finalised the acquisition of the consultancy arm of Crag Solutions Pty Ltd. Read more »

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