A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to 250 - testimony, if any...

I will be attending the Ajax World Conference next week in Santa Clara. I will also be at the opening reception on Monday and the conference party on Tuesday. Over the weekend Jesse Liberty blogged about this as well 'If you are going to be at AJAXWorld, look for me on Twitter, and let...

I will be teaching a one day Bootcamp course on Ajax at the AJAXWorld Conference in Santa Clara, California on September 23, 2007. Details are at http://ajaxbootcamp.sys-con.com I will be expanding the Ajax construction tools section from the Ajax Bootcamp I taught in New York at the S...

Where is the Accountability for the Quality of the Finished Work? Software bugs are epidemic. In 2005, the Hudson Bay Company in Canada had software errors in their inventory system that contributed to a $33.3 million loss. In 2004, the UK's Department of Inland Revenue experienced sof...

Canada's Wealth Management industry has experienced sustained growth for the past few decades, making it a sizeable business. Today, more than two million Canadian households have investment assets of $100,000 or more, according to Boston Consulting Group data.

Enerjy, a leading provider of proven, software integrity solutions to Java? development organizations, introduces its latest update to Enerjy CQ2, a powerful turnkey solution that, for the first time, provides development managers with visibility into their development process. Enerjy...

Today's business applications are measured in millions of lines of code - not just thousands. As a result, it is more important than ever to build the quality into a Java application from the start, rather than trying to track down bugs later. When code quality starts to slip, deadline...

Most software developers have heard about the benefits of Java unit testing frameworks, and may have implemented unit testing at a previous job; but tight schedules leave little time for such initiatives; and isn't it Quality Assurance's job to identify bugs?

The following recaps a custom research study among Java software development managers (a group that has great influence but has been historically under-researched). The study found that the overriding issue, with regards to code quality, frustrating these managers is their ability?or i...

Show me code written by ten developers and I'll show you ten different coding styles. So why try to develop and enforce coding standards? Who cares what a program looks like as long as it works

Without software integrity, companies lose credibility and risk financial loss due to software errors and bugs. Instead of focusing on innovative solutions for changing market conditions, developers are bogged down with maintenance issues. This loss of agility eliminates competitive ad...

For managers who are overseeing Java™ development teams, maintaining consistent coding standards and practices is a monumental challenge. Missed deadlines, reports of problems in the field and constant bug fixes are all symptoms of poor coding standards and practices. Fortunately, comp...

Monitoring and measuring code quality consistently from start to finish?beginning with definition of requirements and on into deployment?keeps quality efforts focused across the entire application development life cycle. Managers who consistently track and analyze metrics and progress ...

Today?s business applications are measured in millions of lines of code?not just thousands. As a result, it is more important than ever to build the quality into a Java application from the start, rather than trying to track down bugs later. When code quality starts to slip, deadlines ...

Enerjy CQ2 technology provides visibility into a quality driven development process to aid development teams in delivering projects to specification with reduced coding errors by the required target date.