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Salesforce.com wants customers to use the force
Salesforce.com is trying to persuade its customers to use its hosting platform, called force.com, to serve up their online applications, but even the company's leaders admit that most people still view it simply as a hosted CRM platform. Will its rebranding and development strategies help it to turn the corner? Read more »
Microsoft pretties Office for business apps
Office Business Applications is meant to encourage third-party application providers to write code that will integrate closely with Microsoft Office applications. Read more »
Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »
Mashups conquer charts at Lotusphere
At its annual Lotusphere conference, IBM showed off an early version of Lotus Mashups, a tool designed to let businesspeople, rather than professional programmers, quickly assemble Web applications. Read more »
British Telecom Global Services Ignites wide-area SOAs
British Telecom hopes a new SOA product will persuade big businesses to experiment with distributed applications. Read more »
Visual Studio 2010 can replay bugs
Microsoft has revealed plans for the next version of its development suite, Visual Studio 2010, to be able to record testing sessions so that developers can reproduce and closely examine software bugs. Read more »
Gates woos developers for wireless
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday unveiled plans to help developers more easily create applications for mobile devices that use its operating system software. Read more »
Hutchison's '3' courts enterprise developers
Hutchison Telecom's "3" will start to recruit business application developers in April, with a new Web site instructing developers how to use the company's 3G network the first step into battle with other carriers for the lucrative business communications dollar. Read more »
Intel's 3D divorce rate
Developers of three-dimensional rendering technology for the Web known as X3D are bracing for a standards war with Intel--a former backer of the project--just as their recently sundered collaboration bears fruit. Read more »
Google feels the Force with Salesforce deal
Today Salesforce.com announced a "global strategic alliance" (also known as a partnership) with Google, introducing a new integration point, Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs. Read more »
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Mobile development in Australia--Part 3
In the final part in this series, Builder AU wraps up with advice for developers wanting to take their mobile applications to market. Read more »
ASP.NET, MVC design pattern
In this article Builder.com looks at a simple pattern for developing .NET Web applications. Read more »
Digging code: Software archaeology
At first glance, business software developers have little in common with Indiana Jones. But the emerging field of software archaeology applies some of the same skills, if not the dashing adventure. Read more »
Classifying and representing data in SOAs
Data management is a core requirement of service-oriented applications and in this article we show you how to classify and represent data using a few simple techniques. Read more »
SQL Server applications
Get the most out of your application development efforts by familiarising yourself with SQL Server. Follow these guidelines to build better applications. Read more »
Add XML functionality to your Flash movies
You already know that XML enables data to move easily between applications. Now see how you can integrate XML and Flash for some powerful effects. Read more »
Tactical data access and analysis should be your BI design drivers
The implementation of a business information data warehouse can have a profound impact on an enterprise's decision making processes. A BI warehouse transforms data into a tactical tool, increasing efficiency and enabling better decisions. Read more »
Usability eye for the developer guy
When I think of software usability I think of that old chestnut: 'you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink'. Read more »
Creating a global development framework
The CLR is an integral part of the .NET Framework that promises to let developers employ their cross-language skills in one master architecture. Read more »
Are key performance indicators a true measure?
Some managers love to look solely at numbers when assessing performance, and key performance indicators are right up their street. But how useful are they in the context of software development? Read more »
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Google: Don't give up on OpenSocial
-- When Google unveiled its OpenSocial developer initiative at the end of October, observers hailed it as the future of the social Web.
But is the search king already too late to the party? Read more »
Application Threat Modeling v2
-- Threat Modeling has become one of the most important ways to increase the security of your application development projects. It allows you to understand the threats you will face, and implement countermeasure in a consistent, reliable way. If you only do one thing to improve yoru development processes, Threat Modeling should be it. Now with the new ACE Threat Modeling methodology and tools, it's easy to do as well! Read more »
Data dumps are the dumps
-- I have recently spend a considerable amount of time on a project replacing an old mainframe system with a new web-based application. Read more »
Azure: A matter of trust
-- Ray Ozzie hit the nail on the head when he said Azure's success will hinge on trust. Who outside (and inside) the core circle of ISV trust Microsoft? Read more »
Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks
-- Finally, a wiki CMS solution that you can safely give to your clients to use. But sshhhh... don't call it a wiki... Read more »
Are your Web apps ready for the next-gen browser war?
-- Webkit, Firefox, and Internet Explorer are all scheduled to update their browsers in 2008. Are you ready for Web dev test fest 08? Read more »
The Portal of the Future
-- At this year's Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, I attended Gene Phifer talk: "Portal of the Future: What's Beyond Web 2.0?". Read more »
Enterprise Architecture has failed in a big way
-- Most EA initiatives failed. My guess is that more than 90% never really resulted in anything useful. Read more »
Still many questions about software for mobile computers
-- The great thing about the development of future mobile computers is that no one school of thought has come to dominate the territory. Of course, that's also a problem. Read more »
Newbie guide to Google's Android
-- Google's platform for mobile devices has been announced and ready for developers to get their hands dirty. Here's the basics of what it's all about and the core architecture overview. Read more »
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Opera's new SDK: Better browsing on the Wii?
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On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.