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Adobe's Apollo platform goes beta

News Now known as 'AIR', the software paves the way for web applications that perform like desktop-bound programs [11 Jun 2007]

Microsoft's extended error

Microsoft's extended error

Leader Most companies are delighted when users find new uses for their software. Microsoft is not most companies [01 Jun 2007]


Microsoft angered by UK developer

News Software giant tells London developer to remove his free debugging tool from distribution [01 Jun 2007]

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Intel: Multicore chips outstripping software

News Software makers face making big changes to the way they write applications in order to keep pace with advances in multicore chip technology [29 May 2007]

Sun builds on JavaFX Script

Sun builds on JavaFX Script

Q&A James Gosling, who helped create Sun's Java software, shares his thoughts on plans to bring it back to its desktop computing roots [14 May 2007]


Video: Sun introduces JavaFX Video icon

Video: Sun introduces JavaFX

Video At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Rich Green, Sun's executive vice president of software, demos JavaFX Script [09 May 2007]


SAP making strides with new software

News Company's co-founder has disclosed more information about A1S, a new version of its applications still in development [09 May 2007]

Sun outlines plans for Java

News The server and software company comes full circle with Java, releasing a scripting language to ease desktop and device Java development [08 May 2007]

Video: Microsoft's Silverlight in action Video icon

Video: Microsoft's Silverlight in action

Video Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, and Scott Guthrie, general manager of developer platforms, demonstrate Silverlight's key features [01 May 2007]

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Getting to grips with the Java security model

Getting to grips with the Java security model

Feature We explore the architecture of the Java security model, the basis of highly secured and distributed enterprise Java applications [24 Apr 2007]


Apollo helps Adobe compete with Ajax

News Emerging platforms such as Apollo pave the way for applications that bridge the web and desktop [23 Mar 2007]

Gosling: Java and the future of tech tools

Gosling: Java and the future of tech tools

Q&A The man behind Java offers his take on open source, security and why IT is always 'on the edge of collapse' [20 Mar 2007]


Microsoft sounds off over Bulgaria investment

News European Union hosts a promotional day showcasing the software giant's investment in the country [09 Mar 2007]

Oracle gives applications a Web 2.0 boost

News WebCenter Suite will allow developers to enhance applications' user interface with internet tools such as wikis [12 Feb 2007]

BT under fire over GPL 'violation'

News Update: The Freedom Task Force has started contacting Linux copyright holders over BT's use of software released under the GPL [26 Jan 2007]

BT lends student software coders a hand

News Last year's winners of the Imagine Cup for software design are getting technical and business training from BT and Microsoft [16 Jan 2007]

Sun's Fortran replacement goes open source

Analysis Sun is enlisting the outside world's help in an attempt to create a new programming language called Fortress [15 Jan 2007]

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The secret advantages of older techies

Feature While it is good to know about the latest web development technology, don't dismiss the benefits of knowing older standards [29 Dec 2006]

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Google lets SOAP slip away

News Support for the API for web services and other tasks is quietly axed in favour of Ajax, believed by many to be inferior [20 Dec 2006]

Company profile: Conchango

Company profile: Conchango

Feature The software-development specialist has a unique approach to creating software, which is proving popular with companies that have grown frustrated with more traditional methods [14 Dec 2006]

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Don't forget the tools

Monday 30 November 2009, 7:15 PM

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In association with Network Liberation Movement
The fact is: Software developers today are really designers and not coders. The reason that business anlaysts exist today to model solutions is because they understand the value of designing software before writing it. All too often developers create code that has little value because they do not understand that business classes interact with other classes within the confines of a working model or pattern.

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