Monthly Archives: August 2006
Race Is On to Woo Next-Gen Developer
When then-open-source developer Jim Hugunin said three years ago he was developing a dynamic open-source language to run on Microsofts relatively new .Net platform,...
Buy and Tell: TippingPoint to Disclose Purchased Flaws
A security company that pays hackers for information on software flaws and exploits plans to release a list of 29 unpatched flaws in products...
Software as a Service Not Completely Worry-Free
Back in the good old days of the 1990s, we used to refer to software companies that delivered applications over the Web as ASPs,...
Mad as a Red Hatter
Great Neptunes ghost!" the Katt cried into the KattPhone to a feline friend at the news. "Plutos no longer a planet?!" Astronomers were meeting...
Unpatched Flaws to Be Published
A security company that pays hackers for information on software exploits and flaws plans to release a list of 29 unpatched flaws in products...
Planet Debate Holds Lessons
The recent brouhaha concerning whether Pluto is a planet included arguments that reminded me of errors often made by the techno-elite. Im talking about...
Flex Finds Its Footing
In the two-plus years its been around, Adobe Systems Adobe Flex has undergone more than two-and-a-half version releases, which has probably made developers who...
Scalixs Mind-Share Push
With exchange 2007 due out near the end of the year, Ive been expecting a flurry of activity from e-mail and calendar server vendors...
Newark Discards Red Tape and Extra Data
When Danny Hill, CIO of the office of management and Budget for the city of Newark, N.J., took his present position in 1997, he...
Taming the Invoice Jungle
They may not be quite as unique as snowflakes or fingerprints, but invoice layouts display a staggering amount of variety.
On one vendors invoice, the...