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With the economic downturn on everyone's mind, everyone is re-examining his skills. Some skills are valued more highly than others, of course, and here are seven that could help you not only keep that job, but also secure an even better one.
Bill Gates changed the way Microsoft develops software in 2002, via his "Trustworthy Computing" memo. But the company has found it harder to alter external views of how secure its products are.
Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame discusses the design and development of C++, garbage collection and the role of facial hair in successful programming languages.
Analysts are raising the alarm that less than 10% of developers are writing applications for Vista, but they've got the wrong end of the stick.
Add cool features to Gmail, streamline the Web, and get more out of the Internet with these must-have Greasemonkey scripts.
Mozilla has proposed ship dates for the next version of Firefox that, if approved, would yield an alpha release next month and a final version no later than the first quarter of 2009.
The Eclipse Foundation Wednesday plans a coordinated release of updates to 23 open-source projects -- or 18 million lines of code.
Love him or hate him, Bill Gates is inextricably tied to computing as we know it. Here's a look back at some of the key developments in that sometimes troubled relationship.
Through the decades, the innovations and applications of artificial intelligence.
Nokia and several other companies announced plans to create a foundation that will make the Symbian mobile operating system an open mobile platform, with licenses to be offered royalty-free.
Vendors should open source their modules because they will be optimized by going through the kernel review process, according to the developers.
Those vexing memory leaks are fixed, the interface is improved and it has new functionality in bookmarking, browsing and security.
Developers are scrambling to update their Firefox add-ons to be Version 3-compatible, but here are five that you can use right now to help you interact with colleagues, find information more efficiently, improve the user interface and more.
Apple's next operating system, Snow Leopard, is due out in about a year, and it won't bring with it any major new features. Columnist Dan Turner explains why that may just be a good thing.
Apple's creation of an iPhone App Store, the online mart now set to go live on July 11, is the best example of Apple's newfound platform religion.
Firefox fans should circle June 17 on their calendars. That's when Mozilla expects to push out its final release for Firefox 3.0.
A change Apple made in its most recent update to Mac OS X forced Mozilla to issue a third release candidate for Firefox 3.0, according to notes from a status meeting Mozilla held yesterday.
Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference is under way this week. Here's how things looked in photos taken on opening day. And yes, that's really Al Gore in one of the shots.
VMware on Tuesday announced a new version of its recently acquired application virtualization software with a pair of new and unique features. Competitors are already in hot pursuit.
As had been widely expected, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off the company's new 'iPhone 3G' during a keynote address at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference today.
Version 4 of Bash should be out sometime this summer, says Chet Ramey, the language's maintainer.
Coverage from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2008
When Apple's big developers conference opens on Monday, CEO Steve Jobs is expected to unveil a new iPhone. But there's more on tap than just that, says
Computerworld columnist Dan Turner.
Mozilla has released the second release candidate of Firefox 3.0 and said the final release version of the open-source browser is still on track for delivery later this month.
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference begins on Monday. But the speculation about just what's going to be announced has been going on for months. We round up the latest.
A team of NASA engineers and programmers are writing code each day to send to Mars to control the Mars Lander, which is gathering and testing soil on the surface of the planet.
Its goal is to help third-party developers build applications using the address books behind Yahoo Mail, Messenger, Go and other applications.
Microsoft is opening the first of two back-to-back Tech-Ed conferences with a keynote by Chairman Bill Gates and the release of preview versions of several data management tools for developers.
In a keynote speech at the Tech-Ed conference today, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said the second beta version of Internet Explorer 8 will be released in August.
Bill Gates delivered his final speech as a full-time Microsoft employee to software developers at the company's Tech-Ed conference in Orlando.
IBM Rational announced at its user conference that 20 products -- from IBM and third parties -- are now supporting the company's new Jazz collaboration technology.
As of June 1 Microsoft Corp. will require hardware makers to test their device drivers on Windows 7 to receive certification for Windows Vista.
Two Yahoo executives discuss BrowserPlus, a development platform for creating Web applications that contain desktop capabilities, and how they compare with similar projects from Microsoft, Adobe, Google and others.
The integration will be done via a plug-in, a spokesman says, who acknowledges that performance still needs to be worked on.
The Dreamweaver beta includes a Related Files tool bar and Code Navigator feature to examine pages that include HTML files.
Microsoft is finally talking a little bit about its next OS, Windows 7. But all it's saying is that it isn't going to say much about it for now.
Although Mozilla Corp. has found 10 high-priority bugs in Firefox 3.0, three of them "critical," it hasn't decided on whether to release the browser anyway or push out a second release candidate (RC2).
The IBM integrated development environment was ahead of other IDEs in terms of overall customer satisfaction but did not fare so well in ease of use, editor features or availability of third-party tools to work with it.
Mozilla Corp. developers are already hammering out plans for Firefox 3.1, which could be released by the end of the year, according to comments posted by company executives.
Quality is up, and there's an emphasis on security, the Coverity source-code scan found.
