Application Management

SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo: Themes & Topics

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:30:00 EDT

From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown Manhattan.

CLINQ v1.1.0.0 Released

Fri, 02 May 2008 17:15:00 EDT

CLINQ v1.1 has been released. Some of you may have already downloaded some of the new builds, but here's a rundown of what the new release includes: Support for Continuous Aggregation. Now, in addition to being able to have your result sets automatically update themselves in response to changes in the source set as well as changes to items in the source set, you can have aggregate scalar values that continuously update in the same fashion. The following is a list of the supported aggregation types that can now be done continuously:

Requirements Definition and Management for Developers

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 17:45:00 EDT

Requirements impact every step of the development lifecycle, from design and coding to testing and deployment. Thus, the process of defining and managing requirements has become one of the most important challenges to overcome when building software. Because requirements have such an impact downstream, it's no surprise that so many studies cite inaccurate, incomplete, and mismanaged requirements as the primary reason for project failure.

Digital-Tutors Announce Availability of Macromedia Flash 8 Training

Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:00:00 EST

Digital-Tutors, has announced the availability of 'Introduction to Macromedia Flash 8' training kit - a comprehensive training tool for Flash 8 and the latest release in a growing library of popular training resources for emerging digital artists.

Quest Software Experts to Be Highly Visible at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2005

Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:00:00 EDT

Quest Software Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT), a leading provider of application, database and Windows management solutions, today announced that its technical experts will share their knowledge during more than a dozen sessions at the upcoming Microsoft Tech-Ed 2005 in Orlando June 5-10. Breakout session presentations, Cabana Talks and Exhibit Hall Theater presentations will span numerous topics, showcasing the expertise of the many Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and others who are part of the Quest Software team.

Team Foundation: At Work

Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST

Do you find yourself tired after sitting in meetings all day? Do you have feelings of uselessness after weeks of bug fixing? Do you often find yourself feeling lonely, as if you've lost touch with your team and the status of your project? Are you frustrated by frequent fire drills and the sense that your project is in utter chaos? Are you hopelessly lost in a sea of changing policies and procedures with no end in sight?

Cross-Platform Computing - "Seeing the Problem" Using New Software

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

The latest version of Identify Software's flagship product, AppSight, records the exact screens users see when running applications. This is being put to use to further application error resolution.

Aspect.NET: Concepts and Architecture

Mon, 04 Oct 2004 00:00:00 EDT

This article presents a new approach to aspect-oriented programming (AOP) - an advanced programming paradigm and technology that supports the separation, design, implementation, location, and updating of crosscutting concerns implemented as aspects. The most common AOP tools - AspectJ, HyperJ, etc., contain a lot of AOP foundation ideas and useful features, but they are focused on Java technology and are currently available as AOP extensions of Java.

Automate Application Builds Using NAnt

Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:00:00 EDT

After a quarter of a million lines of code had been written, the application was ready for testing. The testers, however, came back with their results alleging poor application quality. A plan had to be developed and executed quickly to address this feedback. However, the eleven-person development team was confronted with further challenges: code had to be revised due to an oversight regarding requirements and application issues, new functionalities had to be added resulting from change requests, and the finished product had to be delivered soon.

Managing Deployment and Monitoring of Smart Client Applications

Mon, 07 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Over the past few years, IT organizations have chosen between two primary application development and deployment architectures. However, with the advent of the .NET Framework, there is now a new alternative called 'smart clients'.

Rules Come to BizTalk 2004

Tue, 18 May 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Imagine that you have built a large enterprise application after carrying out extensive requirement studies. Just before the delivery, the client informs you that some of the business rules need to be changed. What do you do? Modify the business objects? Change the stored procedures?

Aspect.NET

Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:00:00 EST

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a new programming paradigm that supports software component reuse and modification. Each application can be regarded as a collection of implementations of ideas or concerns.