Features

• Programmers who defined the tech industry: Where are they now?

  By Esther Schindler | 04 November, 2010 10:45

  Some early programmer names are familiar to even the most novice of software developers. You may never have seen a line of code written by Bill Gates, or written any application in BASIC (much less for the Altair). But you know Gates' name, and the names of a few others.

• Open source helps Facebook achieve massive app scalability

  By Rodney Gedda | 24 February, 2010 09:40

  People all over the world spend a total of eight billion minutes a day on Facebook. Some 3.5 billion pieces of content are shared every week, 400 billion Web pages are viewed every month and the site logs a staggering 25TB of data every day. David Recordon, senior open programs manager at Facebook, talks about how the social networking giant uses open source tools to achieve its massive app scalablilty.

• Dev/Test in the Cloud: Rules for Getting it Right

  By Bernard Golden | 02 November, 2009 10:25

  In last week's post, I discussed why dev/test can be a good first use of cloud computing. Without rehashing the entire post, it's clear that dev/test is often hampered in its activities by the difficulty of getting enough computing resources to its job.

• Staying afloat in a sea of iPhone apps

  By Kathryn Edwards | 15 July, 2009 11:32

  Just how lucrative is the iPhone App Store for a business in application development? Is it easy to achieve success or is money on app development better spent elsewhere? The top Australian iPhone app developers speak exclusively to Computerworld about success in the iPhone App store.

• Why Software Development Is Lagging Hardware

  By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | 23 February, 2009 09:32

  Your new computer has a 64-bit processor, but your software probably is still 32-bit. Why haven't software developers done more about it?

• Cargo Cult Methodology: How Agile Can Go Terribly, Terribly Wrong

  By Charlie Martin | 26 August, 2008 10:11

  Agile methodologies seemed like a good idea to this software development team. But when the company doesn't sincerely accept the change in work style, the result is just a buzzword for "project hell"