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Zend seeks a sustainable open-source model

Incoming CEO Harold Goldberg says he'll focus the PHP software company on big businesses and Web 2.0 start-ups. Read more »

Developer Spotlight: Walker Royce

Walker Royce is the Vice President of IBM's Worldwide Rational Lab Services; he is also the author of Software Project Management, A Unified Framework. Builder AU caught up with him to talk about the process of software development and where we are heading as an industry. Read more »

IBM beefs up Rational toolset

IBM's Rational division yesterday announced new features that will appear in its next generation toolset, code-named Atlantic. Read more »

IBM's Rational cooks up Java plan

IBM's software group is getting ready to unveil a Java development tool, the fruit of its acquisition of Rational Software, that promises to make it easier for programmers to build custom business applications. Read more »

Eclipse to split from IBM

Eclipse, an open-source development tools organisation backed by IBM, plans to transition to an independent foundation by next month, a representative said this week. Read more »

Atlantic launch expands IBM's tools range

A new suite of Eclipse-based tools planned for release by the end of the year promises to make large-scale development easier. Read more »

Q&A: Debian leader on not being in it for the money

The Debian GNU/Linux operating system continues to generate interest from developers around the world, keen to sign up and contribute code to the open-source project now in its 15th year. Read more »

IBM tools revamp targets Microsoft

IBM is boosting its developer outreach programs and its Java tools as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows-only strategy. Read more »

Developers compete at heavyweight Linux conference

Developers are gearing up for a fiercely competitive hack-fest at a heavyweight Linux conference in Adelaide this month. Read more »

IBM tunes up for Jazz open-source project

IBM is working on an open-source project called Jazz to promote programming tools for globally distributed teams. 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 »

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 »

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 »

Wanted: cowboy developers

Talk in the industry is that there are too many "cowboy developers" who don't follow proven processes or methods, undermining the software engineering industry. Read more »

Create components in your application with JavaBeans

JavaBeans let you visually assemble components and dynamically change properties on the fly. Peter V. Mikhalenko discusses the JavaBeans conventions, events, and listeners. Read more »

Case Study: Switching places from Lotus to .NET

For almost a decade, Sydney-based software developer Just OnePlace (J1P) had been a loyal devotee of the IBM/Lotus platform. But following the strategic review that commenced two years ago the company made a strategic switch to the rival Microsoft .NET camp. Read more »

IBM DB2 9.0 Review

DB2 9.0 has a lot for the newcomer or seasoned hand alike. Read more »

Write useful documentation with these tips

Most developers cringe at the idea of writing documentation. However, the process doesn't have to be a thoroughly time-consuming endeavour. Check out these handy tips on what you should include in your documentation and where to find tools that will assist you in this process. Read more »

Virtual computing offers real benefits, real challenges

Virtualisation breaks the link between software and hardware; great for managers but not so good for others. Read more »

Product review: Advantage Plex 5.1 from Computer Associates

Advantage Plex is a development tool for Windows, J2EE and iSeries 400 environments. Jorge Ubeda shares his thoughts on the app development tool. Read more »

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Delivering software like iTunes delivers songs

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Last Friday I got the chance to speak with Don Ferguson, IBM Fellow and SWG Chief Architect about the impending open sourcing of Java, Web 2.0, and what IBM are doing. Read more »

Simonyi tells programmers to leave the Dark Ages

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Charles Simonyi -- legendary Microsoft programmer and space tourist -- doesn't have many good things to say about the current state of his own profession, software engineering. Read more »

Sun considering GPL for Java

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Sun Microsystems is poised to release "significant parts" of the Java Standard Edition(JSE) under a free or open source licence by the end of 2006 -- possibly under the Gnu General Public Licence(GPL). Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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