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Google Chrome: A Hit with Online Software Vendors

With its ability to load pages quickly and its resistance to crashing, online software vendors such as Zoho and Socialtext see Google's new Chrome web browser as a good opportunity for delivering business software.

Sep 3, 2008 4 mins

Consumer Electronics Developer Internet

Google App Engine: Getting Data Out Ain’t Simple. Yet.

Data checks in... but it won't check out! No, not really; data management is just more of a pain than you might expect. To use Google App Engine today, you need to use a Python API to export from its proprietary data store. But soon, Google says

Sep 3, 2008 5 mins

Data Center Developer Web Development

8 Reasons Why CIOs Think Their Application Developers Are Clueless

Sure, CIOs can be clueless. But so can the programming staff. It's time for the other side of the story: CIOs and IT managers explain just how out-of-it their application development staff can be.

Sep 3, 2008 8 mins

Developer IT Leadership

Working with SOA Design Patterns: Understanding Pattern Relationships

SOA design patterns can and often should be interdependent. Implement a proper relationship between design patterns in order to make your SOA solution the best that it can be.

Sep 2, 2008 6 mins

Developer

Look in the Mirror

The qualities you like in salespeople apply to you, too

Sep 1, 2008 2 mins

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CIOs Trim Spending, Desktops Make a Comeback and More

This issue of Trendlines from the 9/1/08 issue of CIO magazine covers IT budgets, the return of the desktop, SaaS and the fight against cancer, why developers think the CIO is clueless and recent changes in the C suites around the country

Sep 1, 2008 8 mins

Developer IT Leadership

PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, Python, and Tcl Today: The State of the Scripting Universe

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where the languages were headed. In this follow-up discussion, she asks the dynamic lang

Aug 29, 2008 15 mins

Developer

Facebook Technology Infrastructure Needs Constant Care

Jonathan Heiliger, the top technology exec at the huge social networking site, talks about his efforts to build a technology operations team at Facebook that can both handle millions of users worldwide and a restless, creative culture inside the comp

Aug 28, 2008 8 mins

Data Center Developer IT Leadership