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Borland segues from coding to lifecycle management

The company that created many famous names in software development is quitting the coding tools market and will concentrate purely on the process of software creation, backed by its purchase of Segue Software. Read more »

Eclipse AJAX toolkit proposed

IBM is leading the charge for an open source AJAX development toolkit. Read more »

Business Objects signals Eclipse move

Business intelligence software maker Business Objects has signalled its intention to join the Eclipse Foundation and move several products onto the open source platform. 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 »

Borland names new CEO

Borland Software has named Tod Nielsen as its president and CEO, four months after the previous chief executive left following poor financial results. Read more »

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 »

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 »

'Free' is the new 'cheap' for software tools

James Gosling, a vice president and fellow at Sun Microsystems, once quipped that the average software developer spends more on cafe lattes than on tools. Read more »

Features (9)

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 »

Java jams: five IDEs tested

We put five of the most popular Java Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) up against each other. Find out which tool is tailor made for your development requirements. 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 »

Do you use wizards in your programming work?

Wizards are common development tools--but is that a good thing? We're looking for your feedback on this topic. Do you use wizards or avoid them? Read more »

Open source Java route yields big savings

What do you do when the heterogeneity of your IT infrastructure and your OS-specific legacy deployments are standing in the way of true progress? 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 »

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 »

Embed me: Career opportunities in embedded software

Writing software designed to be embedded in an appliance, phone, or some other real-world device is a growth area, but has its own set of challenges. Read more »

Blog (2)

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 »

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 »

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