Monday, February 25, 2008

Java Increasingly Threatened by New App Dev Frameworks

February 21, 2008 - Is Java slipping into second-tier status in the application development space? All the attention being given to its rivals these days might give off that impression... (read more)

Confessions of a Cobol Programmer

February 20, 2008 (Computerworld) Last summer, Michael Vu, a 40-year-old independent IT consultant, found himself in a wholly unexpected place midway through his career.

He'd signed a three-week contract to help a major U.S. retailer with an enterprise reporting project. The initial work was so successful that the project was extended. As a consequence, Vu was suddenly deep in the world of Cobol.

Yes, Cobol, the programming dinosaur that was last hot in the '80s. Cobol, notorious for its overrich syntax and overlong code. That Cobol... (read more)

10 Emerging Technologies 2008

Technology Review presents our list of the 10 technologies that we think are most likely to change the way we live... (read more)