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Job prospects improving for IT graduates, says HECSU report
Job prospects for IT graduates have improved for the first time during the recession, says the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU) News | 11 Oct 2012
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Adobe unveils Edge tools for mobile development
Adobe has unveiled a new platform, dubbed Edge, to offer web developers an alternative to programming in Flash News | 25 Sep 2012
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Anglian Water uses InfoSys to deploy SharePoint 2010 intranet
Anglian Water has started a phased roll-out of a SharePoint 2010 intranet portal to improve the flow of information around the business Collaboration software | 17 Sep 2012
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Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2012 for cross-platform development
Microsoft has launched Visual Studio 2012 and .Net Framework 4.5, its integrated development platform for building and managing applications application development | 13 Sep 2012
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Rigorous software testing gets Curiosity off to a good start
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) has used static code analysis from Coverity to maximise the quality of the code running on the Curiosity rover News | 22 Aug 2012
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Gartner: Prepare for hybrid cloud pain
Hybrid clouds are set for a big fall as businesses feel the pain of implementation Cloud computing | 16 Aug 2012
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IT contractors in demand as permanent jobs fall
Demand for IT contractors increased during the last three months while demand for permanent staff fell for the first time since 2009 News | 09 Aug 2012
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Businesses make 70% savings on applications hosted on Amazon
Businesses using Amazon Web Services over the past five years have made considerable savings, an IDC study has found cloud computing services | 25 Jul 2012
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Nationwide hits major milestone in £1bn IT transformation
Nationwide has reached a major milestone in its five-year technology transformation project with the roll-out of a mortgage system to its branches Business applications | 24 Jul 2012
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The future of software development: The FT's view.
Jagdeep Singh Bhambra, head of software development at the FT, gives his views on the future of software development, in this presentation for Computer Weekly's 500 Club for IT leaders. News | 13 Jul 2012
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Forrester: Microsoft takes new approach to Windows app development
Windows 8 signals a huge change, which will require a major effort in rewriting existing applications Feature
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Windows 8 looks to reclaim territory in the enterprise
Every few years a new Microsoft desktop operating system arrives. The latest version may influence how corporate IT regards desktop computing Feature
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Outsourcing IT services: goals and negotiations
Tactical and strategic negotiations are important to businesses of all sizes, from SMEs to the largest enterprises Feature
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Weighing up the options for software testing
We examine the reasons why software testing is increasingly being outsourced Feature
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Automate testing for agile quality
As agile methodology piles pressure on quality assurance, automation could ease resources. Feature
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Computer Weekly / TechTarget IT priorities survey 2012
Learn which IT priorities are at the top of UK IT managers lists for 2012. Coverage from across our network includes cloud, budget cuts, networking, security, disaster recovery and more. IT priorities survey
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Microsoft: Is computing more trustworthy 10 years on?
Microsoft is marking the 10th anniversary of its Trustworthy Computing group (TwC), but has any significant progress been made since 15 January 2002 when Microsoft chairman Bill Gates sent an email memo to all employees, identifying trustworthy compu... Analysis
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Interview: From Apollo Mission to agility manifesto
One of the 17 original authors of the agile manifesto was Jim Highsmith who, after a previous tenure at NASA, now works as an executive consultant at ThoughtWorks. Feature
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Case study: Law firm uses RES Automation Manager to migrate users to Windows 7
Law firm Kennedys is using RES Automation Manager to migrate users from Windows XP to Windows 7. The company has over 900 people across the UK and provides specialist legal services for insurance, healthcare, construction, employment, rail, maritime ... Feature
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Case study: Customizations in Sugar Professional Open the Doors to Success at UEM Land Group
UEM Land Group, with headquarters in Malaysia, is the master developer and primary landowner in the regional city of Nusajaya, located in the Iskandar Malaysian Development region. The company was acquired in 2001, and in 2003 it experienced a compan... Feature
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Hacking open data on development aid
Using open data to analyse information about international aid shows the benefits - and the limitations - of the ICT for development field Opinion
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Ovum view: The future of software development
Agile programming is clearly part of the future, IT professionals at Computer Weekly's 500 Club heard last month, though there was tacit agreement among the speakers that agile the verb was key here, and not agile the noun Opinion
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Open standards are about the business model, not the technology
Software companies, abuzz with lobbyists and patent lawyers over government open standards, are similar to the record industry 10 years ago. Opinion
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Forrester: It's time to take agile to the next level
Agile development has become very popular, with more than a third of developers citing agile as their primary methodology. Opinion
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Appearance of 'legacy' Java apps highlights danger of losing application knowledge
Java and Perl applications that were developed just three years ago have developed "legacy" attributes: the original authors are gone, the applications are poorly documented and poorly understood, and although the business relies on the applications,... Opinion
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Eclipse offers adaptable IDEs for Java and C++ programming work
Eclipse is the chosen platform for constantly evolving IDEs Opinion
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Building bridges is just the start
Tomorrow's launch of the Strategic Supplier Relationship Group is an important landmark in the development of our industry. Opinion
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Software industry told it must learn from the past and stop acting like 'hairdressers'
Software development is generally more like a fashion industry than professional engineering because IT specialists fail to learn... Opinion
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Bring discipline to software development
Poor management processes cause high project failure rate Opinion
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Storage networks
The massive growth in data and the development of storage systems, have created exciting new technologies that have added... Opinion
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Getting school children excited about learning IT
Children at St Matthew's School in Surbiton, London learn about technology and programming in a project to prove that IT education can be fun. Video
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CW500: Gus Power, CTO, Energized Work on the future of software development
Gus Power, CTO of Energized Work, talks to the CW500 Club about the future of software development Video
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CW500: Dave Heath, head of software engineering at LateRooms.com
Dave Heath, head of software engineering at LateRooms.com, talks to the CW500 Club about the future of software development Video
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CW500: Jagdeep Singh, head of software development, the Financial Times
Jagdeep Singh, head of software development at the Financial Times, talks to the CW500 Club about the future of software development Video
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Interview with Bill Hilf, general manager of Windows Azure, on open source in the cloud
Microsoft has taken the bold step of expanding Azure from a Windows cloud platform to fully fledged cloud infrastructure Video
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Review of IntelliJ IDEA, a Java IDE
IntelliJ IDEA is a Java IDE from the Czech company JetBrains, that has survived thanks to a design philosophy centred on being smart but not annoying. Photo Story
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A showcase of Nokia goodies from QT Developer Day
With co-located ‘sister’ events in Munich this October, followed by a subsequent US event held in San Francisco in early November, Nokia Qt has started off its 2011 Developer Days event programme. Qt is a cross-platform application and user interface... Photo Story
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Podcast: Software development - navigating the pitfalls
Cliff Saran speaks to Paul Michaels, director of consulting at Metri measurement consulting, about how to steer a software development project in the right direction. Podcast
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James Gosling, father of Java, discusses the challenges ahead
Cliff Saran speaks to James Gosling, father of Java and chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems. Podcast
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Future trends in software development: interview with Dr Graham Spittle of IBM's Hursley labs
Technology reporter JP Kamath talks software development with IBM’s director at the Hursley laboratory , Dr Graham Spittle. Podcast
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Conference coverage: Dreamforce 2012
Dreamforce 2012 recently took place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Here you find all of the news from the annual event which took place Sept 18-21. guide
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Supplier profile: Microsoft
In this Microsoft supplier profile you will find news, tips and research on the vendor. guide
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CW500: The future of software development
Read a summary of the discussion at this CW500 event, watch video interviews with the speakers, and download a copy of their presentation slides. guide
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Supplier Profile: Oracle
In this Oracle supplier profile you will find news, tips and research on the vendor. guide
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London 2012 Olympic Games Coverage
Read all our London Olympics IT coverage so far including IT preparations, the website, power concerns and the creation of thousands of new jobs. guide
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Job prospects improving for IT graduates, says HECSU report
Job prospects for IT graduates have improved for the first time during the recession, says the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU) News
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Forrester: Microsoft takes new approach to Windows app development
Windows 8 signals a huge change, which will require a major effort in rewriting existing applications Feature
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Windows 8 looks to reclaim territory in the enterprise
Every few years a new Microsoft desktop operating system arrives. The latest version may influence how corporate IT regards desktop computing Feature
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Conference coverage: Dreamforce 2012
Dreamforce 2012 recently took place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Here you find all of the news from the annual event which took place Sept 18-21. guide
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Adobe unveils Edge tools for mobile development
Adobe has unveiled a new platform, dubbed Edge, to offer web developers an alternative to programming in Flash News
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Anglian Water uses InfoSys to deploy SharePoint 2010 intranet
Anglian Water has started a phased roll-out of a SharePoint 2010 intranet portal to improve the flow of information around the business Collaboration software
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Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2012 for cross-platform development
Microsoft has launched Visual Studio 2012 and .Net Framework 4.5, its integrated development platform for building and managing applications application development
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Hacking open data on development aid
Using open data to analyse information about international aid shows the benefits - and the limitations - of the ICT for development field Opinion
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Outsourcing IT services: goals and negotiations
Tactical and strategic negotiations are important to businesses of all sizes, from SMEs to the largest enterprises Feature
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Rigorous software testing gets Curiosity off to a good start
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) has used static code analysis from Coverity to maximise the quality of the code running on the Curiosity rover News
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