Software Development

10 slick and cool IE extensions

There are certainly enough critics who throw rocks at IE, but we're taking the high road and looking at how users can dress up the old girl with an array of extensions for corporate users, developers and those who just want to have some fun. With add...

Mob wisdom means business

Crowdsourcing, mob wisdom, interactive ideation, artificial AI -- call it what you will, but the idea of tapping external collaborators to develop or enhance products and services is far from revolutionary.

Network coding: networking's next revolution?

Some of high tech's biggest names - Microsoft, HP and Intel among them - are starting to embrace a technology called network coding in an effort to boost throughput, scalability and efficiency of everything from content distribution to wireless netwo...

Should your company 'crowdsource' its next project?

When Constellation Energy Group's commodities group needed a new system recently, it considered the usual sources of labor: internal staff, a consultant, a contractor, offshore programmers or a mix of all four. Instead, it turned to a somewhat less t...

Trolltech pours on the Java dev goodness

The world of Java depends on two established GUI toolkits: Swing and SWT (standard widget toolkit). Both software packages provide the widgets, controls, menus, and user interface components in most Java applications today. Swing, which Sun bundles w...

Code search in action

Programming is hard - always has been, always will be. No matter how experienced you are, or what kind of tools you use, there are always problems that make you gnash your teeth and think about getting an MBA or becoming a manager.

How to minimize the pain of an Office 2007 upgrade

Moving to a new office is never fun. The same goes for moving to a major new release of Microsoft Office -- which Office 2007 happens to be.

Vista turns one, and businesses start to come around slowly

When Microsoft released Windows Vista to businesses exactly one year ago, near-term expectations weren't high.

12 steps to stellar software design

Many organizations can't understand why their software doesn't perform as expected, or why users make unexpected errors. According to David Crow, usability advisor at Microsoft Canada and Jay Goldman, president of Radiant Core in Toronto, waking up t...

10 Tech Pioneers: Where Are They Now?

These former technology luminaries have all taken different paths. How different? One's a country doctor, one's a budding movie mogul, and one teaches toddlers--and he's not even alive.