At the end of each year,
when SYS-CON informally
polls its globe-girdling
network of software
developers, industry
executives, commentators,
investors, writers, and
editors, our question is
always the same: where's
the industry going next
year?
Intellectually everyone
understands that
improving code quality is
a good thing. After all,
we know bad quality when
we see it. (Anyone old
enough can cast his or
her mind back to the late
'80s and Microsoft Word
for Windows 1.0.) B...
We don't forget to scan
our PC for viruses and
worms but we conveniently
forget to download a
virus checker for our
mobile. Most of us are
still under the
impression that mobiles
are completely secure,
which isn't true. There
are ...
The familiar phrase
attributed to Java
applications of 'write
once, run everywhere'
sadly does not apply to
applications developed on
Java ME. While the Java
ME standard ensures that
runtime environments are
consistent across
devi...
Does this sound familiar?
You have a domain object,
perhaps for reporting
purposes, that's built
from a ton of JDBC
queries and it takes too
long to load. Nothing
else happens until this
object is built, so it's
become a bottleneck...
Understanding the
complexity of AJAX at the
browser level is critical
to refining and debugging
rich AJAX applications
that leverage Web
technologies such as
JavaScript, Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS), and
XMLHttpRequests. Adding a
...
There are a number of
reasons why we
continuously change our
enterprise applications,
but sometimes it's hard
to explain to the
requester why another
change would be so costly
and time-consuming to
implement. IT leaders who
want t...
I have spent a good part
of the last year trying
to 'wrap' COM servers in
Java for a content
management organization.
It had an array of
syndication servers
supported by an
integrated messaging
platform developed using
COM. The pu...
The year 2006 marked the
tenth anniversary of the
Java language and for me
is the most significant
in its history. The most
important event was the
announcement that a GPL
version of Java SE will
be available sometime in
the first h...
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experience
There are 8,909 books
listed on Amazon.com with
the word 'Investing' in
the title; there are(!)
27,146 books with the
word investment in the
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This book is an update of
an earlier version that
was written for SQL
Server 2000. It employs
the Murach approach of
dual pages that repeat
and enhance the concepts
Reviewers overuse the
phrase 'required
reading,' but no other
description fits the new
book 'Ajax Security'
(2007, Addison Wesley,
470p). This exhaustive
tome from B
In my many years of
programming, almost 20
years now, I have used
countless integrated
development environments
(IDEs). I have used
everything from a simple
text edi
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience 
There are 8,909 books
listed on Amazon.com with
the word 'Investing' in
the title; there are(!)
27,146 books with the
word investment in the
title. Without having lo
This book is an update of
an earlier version that
was written for SQL
Server 2000. It employs
the Murach approach of
dual pages that repeat
and enhance the concepts 
Reviewers overuse the
phrase 'required
reading,' but no other
description fits the new
book 'Ajax Security'
(2007, Addison Wesley,
470p). This exhaustive
tome from B
In my many years of
programming, almost 20
years now, I have used
countless integrated
development environments
(IDEs). I have used
everything from a simple
text edi