Software Development category

It wasn't long ago when most web designers and web developers depended on Dreamweaver as their preferred web development tool. These days, many alternatives to Dreamweaver have emerged and a free one that I would like to highlight today is Aptana Studio - an industry leading web development softw...

Recently I read about Google's new open source programming language called Go. For more details check out Golang.org With so many programming languages to choose from such as C / C++, Python, Java; Google developed Go with an intention for the language to be FAST, about a a few seconds to bui...

A friend of mine recently conducted some paper based marketing effort via the daily newspaper to collect potential customer's information in exchange for some free samples giveaway. photo credit: tastygoldfish The response was quite good as many people filled up their information and sent in the...

Today's post will be related to Sharepoint and will recommend a product to help Sharepoint users apply item level permissions on list columns. photo credit: Owen Ye By default, Sharepoint allows administrators to create a list and apply permissions to it. For example, only users from the Accou...

A few years back, I was part of a software development team for a local construction firm. photo credit: Very Quiet Our main task was to develop and manage an intranet based web application which was utilized by more than 100 employees within the organization. The first few days when the syste...

As a programmer or developer, do you write unit test for your applications? Did you know that a good practice when it comes to developing an application is to write the test first and ensure the test doesn't succeed the first time. See Charles Miller's Six Rules of Unit Testing. Many programme...

If your organization or IT department develops and maintain software / web applications, a good open source tool to manage application bugs is Bugzilla. Bugzilla's key features allow application developers and testers to key in the various bugs that have been found and reported. Once entered, it'...