Any new technology market has its own lifecycle and rhythm. From mainframes, through smartphones, there’s the early years, the rapid growth, some slowing down and inevitably a decline. Some technologies never go away completely (e.g. mainframes), while others never really get a footh...

Software designed by open source standards has security built in and has been found to be fielded with far fewer faults per unit of code than proprietary development houses.  There are many reasons for this.  This factor is especially true when the open source code is commercially supp...

In my many years of programming, almost 20 years now, I have used countless integrated development environments (IDEs). I have used everything from a simple text editor all the way up to the high-end IDEs that Sybase, IBM, and Oracle use. More recently I have come to embrace the open s...

Sybase will have a key presence at EclipseCon 2006, March 20-23 in Santa Clara, Calif. Sybase will demonstrate Sybase WorkSpace, a unified Eclipse-based application development environment. Along with other industry leaders Sybase will offer six developer oriented tutorials, focusing o...

'The Eclipse ecosystem is huge and growing,' writes Eclipse Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Bill Dudney. 'The ecosystem will benefit from having an independent magazine devoted to the various aspects of Eclipse and I'm looking forward to Eclipse Developer's Journal becoming that so...