Development

This pilot fish works for a manufacturer that uses aging automated systems that are already paid for -- and in this economy, it has no interest in trading up.

Apple's browser team should feel humiliated by the lack of attention and respect Safari gets from SaaS developers.

Eric Meyer recalls the bad old days when browser vendors ignored standards and went their own way.

More and more software is being run in the cloud and the application developers themselves are being asked operational questions. That's a disaster waiting to happen, says one blogger.

This is a lousy time to be without a job, but if you know, or can pick up, some Linux skills, you may just be able to land a good job.

In Friday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches Microsoft announce tweaks to Windows 7 in time for the upcoming Release Candidate build. Not to mention Darth Walkies...

This company decides that it needs a better way of managing its software development, so IT selects a methodology that's state of the art -- and works pretty well, too.

Head first Rails aims to offer an engaging way to learn Ruby on Rails. While it's definitely not a boring, dry, serious book, the "fun" approach has mixed results.

It's 2002, and this army pilot fish is a patient-administration specialist at his base -- and as far as technology goes, he's in pretty good shape. But that won't last.

CIOs who can best judge the future of IT will be far better for companies than those who endlessly insist on aligning IT with the present-day business. SOA is another proof point.

In these uncertain times, it seems like a lot of well-intentioned guidance is being released to tell us what we need to do, how we need to do it and why we need to act. In spite of this information, how do you know if you are making the right choices for your organization? What happens when the budget has been cut and risks continue to increase? What if we ignored the lists and took a different approach? The time has come to focus on people, information and risk - combined - and it starts with a single question.

If it seems to you like Debian Lenny, the next release of the popular community Linux, has been taking its own sweet time in arriving, you're right. It has. Here's why.

In Monday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches the Defense Department launch forge.mil, its own open source code repository. Not to mention "eek"...

Here's more evidence you'll see Windows 7 faster than Microsoft has been saying: The company now says that the just-released beta is the last one, and the next released version will be a Release Candidate (RC.)

Some people hope that with Windows 7, Microsoft Corp. will cut down on the somewhat-bewildering proliferation of versions that appeared with both XP and Vista.