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All About EddieC (Edward J Correia)

I bought my first computer in 1980, an Atari 800. In addition to adventure games like Zork, I also played with the hardware, dabbling with ROM dumps and mods to the 810 disk drive. That's also where I learned BASIC programming. After 1984, I moved to PCs, clones and NetWare, and then to Apple IIs and Macs until around 1990. In July of that year I got my first job at a publishing company, supporting about 25 Mac users (including the staff of "MacWeek").

Between '06 and '09 I was editor of ST&P, a software testing trade magazine. I also wrote a software Test & QA newsletter, and was chairman of the Software Test & Performance conference.

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OS X

Free software for your Mac, iPhone

7 Hours Ago - That's right, free. And if it's free, it's for me. Software promoter MacHeist is my new best friend, and for the next five days is giving away nanoBundle, a package of six Mac OS X applications including the highly-rated Twitterrific, which normally sells for US$15. In all, $154 worth of... (Read More)

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Windows NT / 2000 / XP

Avoid Windows Denial of Service

1 Day Ago - Microsoft on Tuesday is set to release six security updates, three of which it has deemed critical and apply only to versions of Windows other than Windows 7. Microsoft released advance notice of its Security Bulletin for November, on Nov. 5. The bulletin itself will be released on Tuesday along... (Read More)

Will SharePoint 2010 Be Sold Separately?

12 Days Ago - With all the coverage of last week's Windows 7 launch, it was easy to overlook news of the forthcoming release of SharePoint Server 2010, the next edition of Redmond's collaboration platform. A public beta is expected next month, which according a speech given by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last... (Read More)

Make Virtual Apps For (and From) Windows 7

16 Days Ago - Keeping pace with Microsoft's latest releases, Xenocode this week unveiled Virtual Application Studio 2010, an update to its virtualization engine that supports Windows 7, simplifies app-publishing to the Web, and permits deployment to multiple platforms using a single executable, the company said.... (Read More)

Wait, Windows 7 Costs How Much?

16 Days Ago - With the price of Windows 7 topping out at US$320, Microsoft will be handing shoppers less cash at the end of its "I'm a PC" commercials. Price advantages of Windows-laptops over those from Apple evaporated further today as Microsoft's latest operating system hit store shelves and OEM factories. ... (Read More)

Microsoft, Palm Launch 'App Stores'

32 Days Ago - Microsoft and Palm today separately advanced web sites designed for developers to post and sell (or give away) applications for their respective mobile platforms, playing catch-up with Apple, whose App Store celebrated its one-year anniversary in July. Redmond also unveiled a series of new phones... (Read More)

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Java

Drag-and-drop GUI-testing for Windows 7

3 Days Ago - GUIdancer 3.2, the latest version of flagship automated GUI testing tool from Bredex, now "officially" supports Windows 7 and Vista, and includes additional enhancements to its library of pre-built test actions. It began shipping on Nov. 3. Before you decide that US$5785 is too much to pay for an... (Read More)

IntelliJ IDEA Goes Open Source

20 Days Ago - One way to become the "ultimate" of something is to simply declare it. JetBrains, maker of the IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE, on Thursday began previewing IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition, the latest version of its commercial integrated development environment for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. The "ultimate"... (Read More)

Moving to Ingres is Easier, Company Says

31 Days Ago - With the release of Ingres Database 9.3 today, the company says it's now easier for developers to migrate their application to the open source system from MySQL, Oracle,SQL Server and Sybase. It does so, the company said, through "improved accessibility of table procedures from within the query"... (Read More)

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HTML and CSS

Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Available

5 Days Ago - Firefox can finally orient itself, at least in terms of iPhones and MacBooks. Mozilla's latest browser, Firefox 3.6 beta 1, can now talk to accelerometers such as those in many Apple devices, thanks to orientation event objects introduced in the new Gecko 1.9.2 presentation engine at the browser's... (Read More)

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Cellphones, PDAs and Handheld Devices

How to Dump AT&T in 30 Seconds

6 Days Ago - If you're yearning to break free from Apple-sanctioned iPhone carrier AT&T (and you don't mind trading your warranty for the privilege), then reach out and touch George Hotz. The iPhone hacker yesterday posted a video showing an iPhone call on T-Mobile, and Wednesday is expected to post the code... (Read More)

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C++

Any function point specialists out there?

9 Days Ago - Are you a certified function point specialist or play one on TV? Then the Counting Practices Manual version 4.3 might be for you. Unveiled today by the International Function Point Users Group (better known as IFPUG), the $100 CD contains the latest "body of knowledge used by function point... (Read More)

Developers Say 'Hello World' to IT

10 Days Ago - Companies using IBM's Rational and Tivoli product will breathe easier today, thanks to new, integrated versions of nine tools that the company says will facilitate communication and closer collaboration between software development and support teams in the enterprise. What's more, prices will... (Read More)

Craigslist: Developers' Jobs and Other Jobs

14 Days Ago - Craigslist hosts classified ads of all kinds, including lengthy lists of developer's jobs in New York and the San Francisco Bay area. But another type of job listing was in the spotlight today, and it's nice to know there's at least one person out there who's thinking clearly. A judge in... (Read More)

Write Once, Run on Most Mobiles. Really?

31 Days Ago - Can't decide whether to develop for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, or Symbian? You may not have to, if the latest "write once, run anywhere" claim from Recursion Software bears fruit. The company today unveiled Voyager 7.2 Pervasive Software Platform, and says that developers can use the tool to... (Read More)

AnthillPro Piles on Code Analysis Tools

32 Days Ago - Urbancode today unveiled AnthillPro 3.7, the latest version of its build and deployment automation tool that piles seven popular source code analysis tools onto its list of third-party integrations. There's also support for the GIT repository and DB2 and PostgreSQL databases, the company said today... (Read More)

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Motherboards, CPUs and RAM

Intel Hot on Flash's Trail

9 Days Ago - While the competition is hard at work on a 100-core processor, Intel this week reported advances in phase-change memory (PCM), a type of non-volatile memory that is seen as a possible next-generation replacement for flash. In a joint announcement yesterday with Swiss memory maker Numonyx, the... (Read More)

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MySQL

Amazon: New, Improved Cloud, Now With MySQL

11 Days Ago - At the risk of coming off like TV's "Mad Men," Amazon Web Services really are New and Improved. The company today announced the addition of Amazon Relational Database Service, giving users of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) access to a virtual instance of MySQL. That's the New part.... (Read More)

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Getting Started and Choosing a Distro

100-Core Processor on Tap

11 Days Ago - Thought you were bleeding edge with your quad-core PC? Think again. A company called Tilera today announced that it's working on a chip containing 100 processor cores, which it says could be seen by 2011. It's part of its new TILE-Gx line of 64-bit multi-core processors, the first of which--a... (Read More)

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PHP

Net 'Neutrality' Not So Neutral

21 Days Ago - One might have titled this story "Beware of government bearing gifts." We should be exceedingly wary whenever law makers begin dabbling with something that's been working exceedingly well for decades. Today that thing is the Internet, perhaps the least-regulated industry in the U.S. today. This... (Read More)

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JavaScript / DHTML / AJAX

GWT With the Program

28 Days Ago - With all the libraries available that have emerged, Java and Ajax applications practically build themselves these days. This week Java tool maker Instantiations added support for Ext GWT to GWT Designer 7.2, the latest version of its Eclipse-based drag-and-drop GUI-building environment that can be... (Read More)

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Windows Vista and Windows 7

Win7: To Migrate or Not to Migrate?

33 Days Ago - With the release of any new OS release, the question facing developers is whether or not to port existing applications. Often the answer hinges on two major factors: Will the operating system be widely adopted and what's downside of doing nothing? In the enterprise the decision is often made for... (Read More)

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Ruby

Q & A: SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson

Nov 22nd, 2008 - Research released this week by Evans Data showed that 73 percent of the market currently use or plan to adopt the Spring application framework for Java within the next two years. More remarkable is that 83 percent of companies with 500 or more developers use Spring, according to the study. So I... (Read More)

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Novell

An Easier Way to Deploy Ubuntu, CentOS

Nov 20th, 2008 - Ubuntu and CentOS are now in the rPath. The company yesterday began shipping a version of its rBuilder build and release management system for Linux that adds those distros; the tool previously worked only with Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise and its own rPath Linux. rBuilder packages a Linux... (Read More)

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Network Security

Hackers Can Now Exploit IP Streams

Nov 14th, 2008 - Isn't anything safe from hackers? Now they've apparently found a way to hack into systems through a media stream, threatening users with denial of service attacks that can bring down servers and desktops alike. The vulnerability was reported yesterday by VoIPshield Laboratories, a security tools... (Read More)

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