Programming power
Web DU: Adobe Down Under
Web DU is a celebration of all things Australian in application development. Prominantly sponsored by Adobe the event is now in it’s fifth year and was timed to coincide with the launch of Apollo in Australia.
Inside Intel: Parallel or perish!
Lisbon was the venue for the 2007 annual Intel EMEA software development conference. International Developer attended to learn more about the company’s vision for the next generation of computing.
Zeus
At Zeus, they build some pretty sophisticated applications and they’re trying to recruit software developers who understand the low-level fundamentals they use.
Compuware: glue for development & QA
An alternative to the traditional approach to unit and functional testing has emerged – Continuous Integrated Testing (CIT). Matthew Finch senior sales specialist with Compuware Australia explains.
Human Inference
Companies and organisations which collect consumer and customer data use this information to analyse and measure specific behavior and align their sales techniques to personal needs. Holger Wandt from Human Inference explains all.
Passwords - Friend Or Foe?
Bill Gates believes that arming everyone with yet more complex technology will make electronic transactions safer. While this may be true for those prepared or able to use such technology, there’s a lot more that communications networks can do to take the strain and keep things simple, argues Richard Baker, BT’s chief identity architect.
Enterprise IT evolution
Since the 1990s enterprise IT systems such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) have been hailed as the saviours of business, offering huge efficiency and productivity savings to sectors including manufacturing, telecoms, utilities and financial services. Colin Rickard, managing director EMEA of DataFlux takes a look at how we can Maximise the value of enterprise IT systems through best practice data management principles.
Features
Actimagine
This is where the new challenge to Moore’s Law lies: the greater the screen size, the greater the resolution. The greater the resolution, the greater the processing-power requirement because the processor has to process more pixels per second.
Advanced Gaming Physics
Some confusion about what constitutes “advanced gaming physics” still exists. Can it be performed by multicore CPUs? Are general purpose graphics chips up to the task? Or do you need a dedicated Physics Processing Unit (PPU)?
Sander Hoogendoorn
A superb paper on Implementing Value Objects.
Information Builders
How many people in your organisation regard IT not only as an enabler of change, but also as a constraint to growth in many cases?
Specials
Consensus Awards
The Consensus Software Awards are the only independently judged Award program exclusively for Australian and New Zealand designed and developed software. This year, 2006/7 will be the eighth season and we expect that it will again attract the best software from across Australian and New Zealand.
Books
WILEY: Professional WCF Programming
APRESS: Hotmail history: how it all started
Regulars
Developer News
Opinion: SUN
VBUG
SW review: UML Diagrammer
SW review: MadCap Mimic
Opinion: SafeNet
Book Reviews
Event: Developer Diary
Developer Web Watch
Opinion: Erudine