IBM Rational To MyEclipse Blue Edition Migration
[ Source: Genuitec, LLC ]
September 2009-
The goal of this white paper is to explore and resolve common concerns and issues surrounding a migration of your development environment from IBM’s Rational Application Developer (RAD) to MyEclipse Blue Edition from Genuitec. Why might a company choose to migrate their development tools? If the migration is decided upon, how would this be done easily and effectively? This paper will answer these common types of questions, as well as explore any intangibles that ...
Agile Architecture
[ Source: Impetus Technologies, Inc. ]
November 2008-
Traditionally, an attempt is made to make the right architectural decisions early, due to the significant anticipated cost associated with making incorrect decisions. But this contradicts with Agile practices, which encourages welcoming change. Conceptually, the goal of Agile architecture should be to minimize the architectural change by crafting software so that it can easily adapt to change. In practice, developing Agile architecture is far more difficult.
The architectural goals change dramatically during the development of ...
Launch Smartphone Applications from Visual Studio
[ Source: TechWeb ]
April 2009-
By default, Windows Mobile Standard (Smartphone) applications launched from Visual Studio are not accessible on the device/emulator once they are minimized. In this video, Jim Wilson demonstrates two simple techniques to solve the problem.
Test Automation: Delivering Business Value
[ Source: AppLabs ]
October 2008-
As organizations look to reduce costs across a wide range of operational disciplines, IT will become under the radar more and more. The impact of project slippage, poor quality delivery, and inadequate solutions will not be tolerated. This may prove a pain-point for many organizations who have traditionally failed in these critical areas.
Testing, like all project disciplines, has areas that can be quickly improved within an organization. One of the key areas where cost-savings ...
Five Things You Should Know About 3D CAD Software
[ Source: PTC ]
November 2008-
You may be spending most of your time making design changes
instead of creating new designs. But with the right 3D CAD
software, you can solve this problem – and quite a few others.
Top 5 Myths of Screen Scraping
[ Source: Seagull Software ]
June 2008-
Many organizations with mainframe, System i or OpenVMS applications still ask their employees to use green-screen (or text-based) user interfaces to work with essential business information. Green-screens are a business problem and a technology problem. They're unappealing, hard to learn, intimidating, and accessible only with terminal emulation software. They’re also incompatible with modern application integration methods like Web services and SOA.
The appeal of screen-scraping is understandable — it's simple and inexpensive. But ...
Mastering the WPF RichTextBox
[ Source: Jupitermedia ]
January 2008-
RichTextBox component in WPF/.NET 3.0 received a major upgrade compared to the previous version of the RichTextBox control that shipped with.NET 2.0. But with the expanded capability comes the need for additional APIs and different usage patterns. Microsoft intended developers to work with the RichTextBox component via a Command interface. Command attribute on each of these components defines the functionality to activate on the RichTextBox.
Mobile Learning Applications - Ubiquitous Characteristics and Technological Solutions
[ Source: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ]
January 2008-
Although the functions which the mobile devices offer to eLearners are similar with those of a PC, the experience is different due to design and interface issues - small screen, lack of keyboard, slower Internet connection. At the same time there are added functionalities like GPS navigation, ability to distribute the information between several devices designed for different purposes to aim needs of the learner better. With the specific m-Learning features - portability, location awareness, ...
Adding Wildcards to the Java Programming Language
[ Source: Association for Computing Machinery ]
January 2008-
This research paper describes wildcards, a new language construct designed to increase the flexibility of object-oriented type systems with parameterized classes. Based on the notion of use-site variance, wildcards provide a type safe abstraction over different instantiations of parameterized classes, by using ’?’ to denote unspecified type arguments. Thus they essentially unify the distinct families of classes often introduced by parametric polymorphism. Wildcards are implemented as part of the upcoming addition of generics to the Java ...
SandStorm: Load-Testing Tool
[ Source: Impetus Technologies, Inc. ]
July 2008-
The performance of a Web application under heavy traffic has become one of the most crucial factors that define its success. The challenges faced by these online applications include ensuring faster response time during peak hours and maintaining the basic level of quality and reliability of services. This white paper discusses various aspects of Web load testing and offers an insight into Impetus’ SandStorm Web load-testing tool.