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October 15, 2008

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:48 AM/EST

Middleware Comes to Cloud Computing

It was only a matter of time before someone deployed a middleware-as-a-service offering for developers. A startup company called Linxter is in the final stages of rolling out what it calls an Internet Service Bus that allows any application...

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October 10, 2008

Friday, October 10, 2008 11:39 AM/EST

Give Network Analyzers to Developers

At some point anybody that has been anywhere near the application development process has sat through a "blamestorming" session where developers and network administrators point fingers back and forth. The problem with most of these sessions is that rarely...

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October 6, 2008

Monday, October 06, 2008 7:18 AM/EST

Wandering the Enterprise Application Development Desert

For the past 10 years the concept of service oriented architectures has dominated the conversation when it comes to application development in the enterprise. But the reality is that nothing in the enterprise is as orderly as a SOA...

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September 22, 2008

Monday, September 22, 2008 8:48 AM/EST

Revisiting the Value of Cobol

Now that the State of California has pretty much resolved its latest budget crisis, it might be a good time to revisit the whole issue of aging Cobol applications. One of the issues that came to light during this...

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September 12, 2008

Friday, September 12, 2008 11:56 AM/EST

The Trouble with Application Latency

Every time you turn around it seems like some developer somewhere is struggling with latency issues. Among the chief culprits is this massive wave of server consolidation. Developers quickly discover that applications that use to run on a local...

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August 5, 2008

Tuesday, August 05, 2008 7:39 AM/EST

Cloud Computing Comes to Application Development

The cloud computing model is rapidly working its way up the application stack. The latest example of innovation surrounding a cloud computing model is a company called Elastra, which just picked up another $12 million in funding thanks to...

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July 28, 2008

Monday, July 28, 2008 9:00 AM/EST

Code Generation Tools are Becoming a Requirement

Although automating the generation of code may not be everybody's idea of a best practice when it comes to application development, the fact of the matter is such tools are becoming indispensable. What's driving interest in such tools is...

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May 20, 2008

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:47 AM/EST

Virtualization Could Be a Boon for SOA

Every where you go in the land of enterprise computing these days, just about everybody is talking about virtualization. But the question that is starting to be asked in some quarters is whether we're missing the point by focusing so...

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May 14, 2008

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:56 AM/EST

The Next Generation of Mobility

As it increasingly becomes clear that smart phones are going to be the dominant device that people use to interact with applications many of the issue that developers wrestle with are going to become a lot more complex. For a...

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May 9, 2008

Friday, May 09, 2008 8:52 AM/EST

Mish Mash Mesh

Right now much of the conversation surrounding mesh computing seems to be dominated by Microsoft's view of the world given the fact that synchronization is at the heart of its Software Plus Services strategy. But the problem with this viewpoint...

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