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Billionaire SAS co-founder keeps on coding 19/09/2009 08:18:00
SAS Executive Vice President John Sall, who developed the data visualisation tool JMP, remains its chief architectJohn Sall doesn't have to work. As one of SAS Institute's four co-founders, the 60-year old has a net worth of $US3.1 billion, according to Forbes' estimate, ranking him the 196th richest person in the world (just ahead of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Ralph Lauren).Parallelism needs killer application for mass adoption 27/08/2009 06:10:00
Music and gaming could encourage programmers to think about writing applications in parallelThe addition of multiple cores to microprocessors has created a significant opportunity for parallel programming, but a killer application is needed to push the concept into the mainstream, researchers said during a panel discussion at the Hot Chips conference.Programmer steals Wall Street trading code, FBI alleges 07/07/2009 08:16:00
Reuters, LinkedIn connect Sergey Aleynikov to Goldman SachsA high-level developer for a major Wall Street firm was arrested by the FBI on Friday and charged with stealing computer code that automates high-volume trading on stock and commodities markets, according to court documents.The A-Z of Programming Languages: Falcon 09/04/2009 11:10:00
Our series on the most popular programming languages continues as we chat to Falcon creator Giancarlo NiccolaiComputerworld's investigations into the most widely-used programming languages continues as we chat with Giancarlo Niccolai the creator of the Falcon programming language.Study: BI, programming skills in demand despite economy 03/02/2009 08:07:00
Companies are slowing down IT hiring amid the weak economy but some jobs are still hot, according to a new study.Thirty-eight percent of U.S. companies are planning to trim IT staff this year, but certain skills remain hot, according to a new study by the IT staffing company Veritude.Security experts name top 25 programming screw-ups 13/01/2009 08:09:00
Led by SANS and the NSA, an industry group has published a list of the 25 most dangerous software programming errors.A group of more than 30 computer organizations has taken what some are calling a big step toward making software more secure.ZuneGate '08: what really happened! 06/01/2009 01:51:00
Microsoft botched the code in the firmware for its Zune 30GB handheld players.Here's the deal. Microsoft botched the code in the firmware for its Zune 30GB handheld players. Like a ticking time bomb, the problem started exploding for Zune owners once 2008 started transitioning into 2009. Users worldwide quickly found that their Zunes were completely locked out. Locked out as in "completely inoperable," that is: Zunes began resetting without warning or completely turning off. When a user flipped the power back on, the Zune operating system would begin to load and freeze on the actual loading screen. And no amount of begging, pleading, or cursing could fix the issue for a hapless user.The A-Z of Programming Languages: Perl 11/12/2008 16:02:00
Culture and community go hand-in-hand with Perl programmingComputerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. This time we chat with Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language and regarded as the father of modern scripting languages.A future without programming 21/11/2008 09:59:00
Code-free application builders allow business people to take development into their own hands. Where does that leave the coders?A few years ago, self-proclaimed non-developer Kevin Smith worked for a software company that tried to build a project tracking tool using Microsoft .Net. Some 15 developers spent a year with little success. "After burning though a million dollars and still without a product, the company called it quits," says Smith, now managing partner of NextWave Performance, a consultancy in Denver, Colo.Multicore: New chips mean new challenges for developers 05/11/2008 08:09:00
More and more help is available so developers can write apps for the new-generation chipsWith the advent of multicore processors such as the Intel Core Duo, which is now commonplace in PCs, software developers must deal with a new wrinkle -- getting software to be processed across multiple cores -- in order to ensure the maximum performance from their software. But this is much easier said than done, with developers having to tackle issues with concurrency and potential performance bottlenecks. Already, 71 percent of organizations are developing multithreaded applications for multicore hardware, according to a recent IDC survey sponsored by tool vendor Coverity.Who needs an enterprise AJAX solution? 30/10/2008 08:42:00
Extensive support is but one differentiator between commercial and open source AJAX frameworksOne thing that the AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development community has aplenty is choice. Want a free, open source AJAX framework? We have (alphabetically) Dojo, Ext, Google Web Toolkit, jQuery, MooTools, OpenRico, Prototype, Scriptaculous, and the Yahoo User Interface Library, and frankly they're all pretty good. There are hundreds more, but unfortunately I can't keep up with them all.Looking for job security? Try Cobol 24/10/2008 09:13:00
As long as there are mainframes, there will be Cobol. Learn the language and the culture and you might land a job that that lasts until retirementA career as a Cobol programmer might not be as sexy as slinging Java code or scripting in Ruby, but if you buckle down and learn hoary old Cobol, you could land one of the safest, most secure jobs in IT.A Web-based app builder with a Microsoft twist 24/10/2008 08:07:00
Caspio Bridge, like a Microsoft Access on the Web, allows nonprogrammers to easily create online databases and the Web forms to fill themNow that the desktop revolution is largely over, most of the excitement lies in the counter-desktop revolution that is bringing all the flair developed by the desktop programmers back to the safe world of the server. Caspio is one of the most prominent players seeking to lure the desktop database builders away from Microsoft Access and back into the datacenter's fold. The company has been around since before the last bubble burst, and now it boasts a number of prominent companies as customers.Microsoft eyes game-changer for application development 16/10/2008 08:03:00
The Oslo modeling-based platform is raising some questionsWith its ambitious Oslo software modeling platform, Microsoft seeks a new application development paradigm that raises the level of abstraction. But the effort has brought up questions about whether Oslo crowds the modeling landscape and whether Microsoft can achieve its lofty goals.Six Scripting Languages Your Developers Wish You'd Let Them Use 15/10/2008 11:06:00
Several up-and-coming scripting languages--some open-source--are gaining popularity among software developers. These dynamic programming languages deserve more attention for your enterprise software development, even if your shop is dedicated to Java or .NET. Here's why.Several weeks ago, Lynn Greiner's article on the state of the scripting universe was slashdotted. Several people raised their eyebrows at the (to them) obvious omissions, since the article only covered PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl and JavaScript. As I wrote at the time, Lynn chose those languages because hers was a follow-up to an article from three years back. Plus, most IT managers are familiar with at least one of those well-known scripting languages, even if they haven't personally written a line of code in one of them.
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