Doug Holland

Doug Holland's Blog 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 ... (more)

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 Ser... (more)

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, mem... (more)

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-bas... (more)

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. Oh, and d... (more)

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. It's interesting to note that Business O... (more)

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#. Araxis Merge version 6.5 improve... (more)

UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Third Edition 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 f... (more)

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. Essent... (more)

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! IBM Rational XDE Developer Plus Edition (v2003) provides an eXtended Development Environment t... (more)

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. When I started writing software using C and C++ on Unix systems, progr... (more)