Luca Cardelli talks about the origins of Modula-3, one of the earliest attempts at a "type-safe" language.

The Industry Standard's Larry Borsato talks about the ups and downs of writing his own blogging tool, particularly his frustrations with some of the open-source software he used.

Mozilla on Friday will release the first preview edition of Firefox 3.1, the fast-track update it hopes to polish off by late this year or early in 2009.

IT managers must be on the lookout for the use of Microsoft Office SharePoint by rogue users.

(Source: MKS) Software is everywhere. For example, a cell phone contains 2 million lines of code and a vehicle, 35 million. This paper speaks to the challenges that software engineering teams face in trying to keep pace with the rapid cycle of innovation and why tools for requirements change management are essential for managing and responding to rapidly changing business requirements.

Mark Hall learns that the real energy hog lurking in your data center may be your UPS.

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