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Application Development

March 11, 2009

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:39 AM/EST

Breach Insurance Means More Rigid Security Testing

It's probably only a matter of time before more enterprising lawyers start suing software developers for reckless disregard over a security breach. In fact, the Hartford Insurance Company has already started offering insurance policies to developers to help defray...

March 9, 2009

Monday, March 09, 2009 3:01 PM/EST

The Rise of Complex Event Processing Frameworks

With all the talk about service-oriented architecture (SOA) being dead and the lack of understanding about event driven architecture (EDA), a lot of folks in enterprise application development circles have been talking up the concept of complex event processing...

February 22, 2009

Sunday, February 22, 2009 5:34 PM/EST

Embedding Business Intelligence

The whole concept of bolting business intelligence on to enterprise applications after they have already been built is an anachronism. When you think about it, for any application to have any real value it has to have some business...

January 8, 2009

Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:31 AM/EST

The Dawn of Middleware as a Service

Just about every aspect of enterprise software can now by purchases as a service, so it stands to reason that middleware would become available as a service as well. For example, we've already seen the creation of startup companies...

December 16, 2008

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:54 AM/EST

Understanding Open Source Resistance

When it comes to open source technologies these days there's naturally a lot of interest because the initial price is right. And while people can argue about the total cost of ownership when it comes to running open source...

December 3, 2008

Wednesday, December 03, 2008 8:00 AM/EST

Open Source Makes Application Server Waves

The open source invasion of the data center continues this week with an Apache Tomcat Java application server offering from SpringSource. For those of you not familiar with SpringSource, this relatively young startup company has been gaining a fair...

November 14, 2008

Friday, November 14, 2008 7:15 AM/EST

Application Vendors Look to Their Own Self Interests

When IT people try to advance the state of the art in their organizations during extraordinary times, a lot of times they are willing to consider alternative approaches in order to maximize the value of every available dollar. In...

November 13, 2008

Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:43 AM/EST

Open Source Middleware Gains Traction

Now matter how severe the downturn in the economy is, it still has to blow some good for somebody. Increasingly, that somebody looks like the proponents of open source software. We've already seen how open source is making advances...

October 23, 2008

Thursday, October 23, 2008 6:18 PM/EST

Security Becomes Mission Critical for Developers

One of the major security issues of the day is how little responsibility developers take for making applications secure. We have more or less created a culture where responsibility for securing the overall computing environment fell to network professionals...

October 21, 2008

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:04 AM/EST

Redefining Innovation in Corporate Computing

The new definition of innovation in the enterprise is how easily someone can connect disparate sources of information to reveal some greater truth or streamline some operation. That question seems to be at the heart of every new service...

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