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Cloud Computing Journal Book Review

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:50:00 EST

Cloud Computing: Web-Based Applications That Change the Way You Work and Collaborate Online by Michael Miller is an excellent introduction to this phenomenon within the software industry. Written using a style that takes the reader on a gentle journey through a "brief history of computing," explaining where we have been and why we'll be living and working in the clouds in our future, the book is an excellent introduction.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

With the release of Visual Studio 2005 in November Microsoft Visual Studio entered the enterprise development tools space with a coherent set of products targeted at the distinct roles in the software development lifecycle. On March 17 2006, Microsoft released Team Foundation Server, which finally enables users of the various editions of Visual Studio 2005 to achieve the Team System.

VMWare Workstation 5.0

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:15:00 EDT

VMWare was the first software of its kind to offer the ability for one operating system to host others in such a way that users could be interacting with multiple operating systems simultaneously. Each virtual machine shares the host computer's hardware resources such as CPU, memory, network connections, and hard disks.

Product Review: Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition

Mon, 08 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

Microsoft has expanded the Visual Studio product line with the addition of six new Express products designed to help the student, hobbyist, enthusiast, or novice developer become proficient with the Microsoft .NET 2.0 platform as quickly as possible. Based upon the same code-base as their professional cousins in the Visual Studio 2005 product line, the express products have been on a diet, allowing them to be downloaded easily even when connecting to the Internet using a dialup connection. Microsoft has provided six express beta products, which are all freely available at http://labs.msdn.microsoft.com/express/. The express product line consists of the following products:

Product Reviews

Mon, 04 Oct 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Imagine that you've just been tasked with designing and implementing an enterprise-wide HR (human resources) system for your organization. The system will be implemented with an ASP.NET-based user interface, business objects based on COM+, and an ADO.NET-based data tier.

Crystal Reports 10 Advanced Developer

Mon, 07 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Unlike other products that we've reviewed in .NET Developers Journal, Crystal Reports enjoys an almost unique relationship with Microsoft Visual Studio in that a copy of Crystal Reports has shipped with Microsoft Visual Studio since 1993.

Araxis Merge 6.5

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:00:00 EST

Once in a while every software developer will find himself or herself using a file-differencing program such as Windiff.exe, which comes with the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET environment and its constituent languages, such as Microsoft Visual C#.

Software Engineering Master Class

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:00:00 EST

Since 1997 the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been the de facto modeling language for describing object-oriented systems, from requirements analysis to design and implementation. Since the first edition, UML Distilled has been the de facto guide for novices and experts alike using UML to describe their software development endeavors.

Chart FX for .NET

Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:00:00 EDT

In today's enterprise applications nobody is going to comment on the quality of your middle-tier components or the databases to which you persist your application's data. Enterprise applications, like all others, are judged using the age-old adage: first impressions count.

IBM Rational XDE Developer Plus Edition

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:20:24 EDT

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 is arguably the most advanced integrated development environment (IDE) available today. Prepare to see your Visual Studio .NET environment on steroids!

Dynamic Page Generation

Mon, 11 Aug 2003 00:00:00 EDT

You have probably not escaped seeing the latest commercials for Microsoft Windows Server 2003, which urge listeners to 'do more with less'; this has been an aim of software engineering since the very beginning.