Esther Schindler

Developers, of course, love to design and write software and are always on the lookout for source material on the subject. Yet there are times when its appropriate to read something else entirely—and its a lot easier to justify the time if the book can add to your creative or technical wisdom. Here are a […]

LAS VEGAS—Shaking off its staid reputation, the venerable C++ language is strutting its stuff here at the C++ Connections conference. The evolution of the language can be seen in the plans for the next version, dubbed C++Ox, in the acceptance of new open-source code libraries, and the reception for certain enhancements to the language. In […]

Ive gotten a lot of e-mail today. “Did you see IBMs news? Theyre finally killing OS/2!” wrote several longtime acquaintances, pointing me at “Changes in support for IBM OS/2 Warp 4 and OS/2 Warp Server for e-business” on IBMs site. Many of those friends remember that I used to specialize in covering–and using–OS/2; that I […]

Tech Ed isnt about collecting tschokes, bouncing a blow-up ball over heads in the keynote audience or winning an Xbox because you were spotted wearing a certification hat on the show floor. While those may be nice experiences, most developers come to Tech Ed to learn pragmatic techniques for using the technology thrust upon them, […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Programmers at this weeks Software Development Expo here are doing what they do best: sharing advice and showing one another effective ways to develop quality code. During the week-long technical conference, experts in such fields as software modeling, Web services, and system security are sharing their experiences with real-world problems and solutions. Theyre […]

STEVENSON, Wash—Its always refreshing to attend a deeply technical conference, at which the experts instruct each other, disagree publicly and challenge one anothers opinions. Instead of showing off shiny new functionality or imperfect features polished to a mirror surface, the developers at the Applied XML Developers Conference are demonstrating the problems yet to be solved […]

PHOENIX—Most enterprise developers can recite various software architecture layers as though its the easy question on the computer science final exam: operating system, application server, Web server, database server, application, network. Providing security at each of these levels is important, and traditionally accountability lies with the network and production staff. However, a few new statistics, […]