Are you interested in Eclipse and the PHP language? Check out the Eclispe PHP project proposal and join in the fun. The project is in the community gathering phase.
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Borland is a finalist in two categories for the 16th annual Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards. CMP Media made the announcement today. The awards ceremony will take place on March 15, 2006 at the Santa Clara Convention Center during the SD West 2006 conference.
Borland Together 2006 for Eclipse is a finalist in the Design Tools […]
Read the article from SDA Asia titled “Managing a Community of Resources: ALM Moves to the Front of Competitive Strategy”. In the online article, Eric Brooks details Application Lifecycle Management, Borland’s ALM product roadmap, and the work being done in this area by IBM and Microsoft.
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The author of “The World is Flat” gave a speech Sunday at Brandeis University. Mr. Friedman said that economic success is because of enterpreneurs with personal computers. Friedman said we are in “an age of greater speed and productivity, one where the biggest winners will be the best collaborators, synthesizers, and those with an eye […]
Multi-processing has been around for years. Special purpose languages (Occam, Linda, SISAL) have been created to take advantage of shared memory and parallel processing architectures in advanced computing systems. With the arrival of the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell Processor (to appear in the Sony PlayStation 3), Sun’s multi-core UltraSPARC T1 processor, and Intel’s Core Duo Processors on Unix/Windows NT servers, desktop […]
Continuing on the “stress” aspects of IT, I was reading an online article that discussed “user stress” as a reason for the failure of several IT projects worth millions of dollars.
In a review of five projects (three canceled before implementation, the other two canceled three months after deployment), each with a budget between $500k and […]
The BBC is reporting the results of a UK poll that shows that IT stress is the leader in driving men and women in the UK to drink and harming their health. The top three causes of stress are: 1) IT problems (30%), 2) Change in financial status/personal injury (24%), and 3) Commuting (20%). Read the […]
Wow, am I a happy developer. Levi Strauss announced jeans for women and men with a built in docking cradle and retractable headphones for your iPod. Read the story.
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Happy New Year to the Borland community. Here we are at the start of another year full of fun, opportunities, and challenges. While I was on my holiday break I had some time to get caught up on my reading. An interesting “booklet” that I read was Bill “Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management”. Bill Swanson […]