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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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Linux Servers and Apache

Linux deduping is in store next

19 Days Ago - Plagued by duplicate files that clog up your system? Quantum, a company once known mainly for hard drives, yesterday unveiled a new version of its StorNext File System that it says optimizes storage efficiency by implementing automatic data deduplication. It's part of StorNext 4.0, Quantum's... (Read More)

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Storage

LSI ships 10 low-cost RAID controllers

20 Days Ago - LSI, three letters that are probably etched on nearly every hard drive controller you've ever owned, as of yesterday emblazon 10 more controllers of SAS, SATA and SSD storage devices. On Jan. 19, the company unveiled a series of new RAID controllers and host bus adapters that double the bandwidth... (Read More)

It's the software, stupid

Dec 15th, 2009 - Thanks to new firmware (v.1.3) released last Thursday, Dell's Lifecycle Controller now works with system management tools from BMC and Microsoft. Most reports that followed Dell's Thursday announcement focused on the speed and capacity of its EqualLogic storage arrays, not on the software used to... (Read More)

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Java

Two Groovy updates

23 Days Ago - With the release last week of Groovy 1.7, developers using the object-oriented scripting language for Java gained access to anonymous inner classes and nested classes, annotations, SQL and other features that could simplify development when mixing Groovy code with Java. Groovy's Eclipse community... (Read More)

An easy way to build Android apps

Dec 12th, 2009 - Tired of parsing all the source code involved in building mobile apps? Or perhaps the approval process for Apple's App Store is getting you down. Or maybe you're an aspiring commercial developer in search of the next must-have platform to tap. If you think Android might be the one, then a new tool... (Read More)

Drag-and-drop GUI-testing for Windows 7

Nov 4th, 2009 - 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)

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Social Media and Online Communities

GoogleDocs takes all file types

26 Days Ago - Users of GoogleDocs will soon have reason to celebrate. Google this week announced in a blog post that its free online document collaboration platform will soon store files of all file types, rather than just those it can edit (plus PDFs). To understand the significance of this news, you'll... (Read More)

How to watch your posts go viral

Nov 21st, 2009 - You know you've established your brand when its name becomes a verb (for example to 'Google' something). A company called PostRank might hope the same holds true for adjectives, as in "What's your PostRank?" The company hosts an ingenious service that tracks the millions of Web postings that appear... (Read More)

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Site Layout and Usability

Web design contest: win $50K and two trips

28 Days Ago - If you're a whiz at Web design and have time to enter a contest, you could be one of three finalists to have your team flown to the MIX10 conference Las Vegas, where you'll collect your US$50,000. The winner also goes to New York City to attend the annual Webby Awards in June. It's all part of this... (Read More)

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Cellphones, PDAs and Handheld Devices

Palm comeback not in the stars

28 Days Ago - Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein isn't looking to the stars for his comeback strategy. The inventor of the iPod was quoted last week saying he had never used an iPhone and that he doesn't pay that much attention to Apple. Was he kidding? If his strategy for competing with the industry's number one app phone... (Read More)

The next big 'App Phone'

Dec 18th, 2009 - The Android has landed. 17 percent of people in the U.S. currently planning to buy a smartphone within the next three months are considering one that runs Google's mobile OS, while 20 percent indicated that iPhone would be their choice. That's according to a report released yesterday by analyst... (Read More)

Two Firsts in Mass Storage

Dec 1st, 2009 - Smaller, bigger, faster. The more time that goes by, the bigger the number of bits they squeeze into smaller places for less money. And always faster than before. This time it's Samsung, with news today that it has begun volume production of flash memory that's more than three times faster than... (Read More)

3D graphics now on BlackBerry

Nov 13th, 2009 - The BlackBerry Developer Conference concluded yesterday, but not before Research in Motion had the chance to unveil enhancements to its BlackBerry Application Platform, which now supports OpenGL ES, a subset of the desktop graphics API specification for embedded systems. Useful for development of... (Read More)

BlackBerry to Become Location-Aware

Nov 10th, 2009 - You don't have to have lived in Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties to achieve self-awareness in San Francisco. BlackBerry developers are gathered in the city this week for the annual BlackBerry Developer Conference, taking place now through Thursday. Among the top stories is a new service platform from... (Read More)

How to Dump AT&T in 30 Seconds

Nov 1st, 2009 - 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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eCommerce

and create lasting connections with customers and suppliers, all with a single-vendor

30 Days Ago - While most eyes this week were trained on Las Vegas and the Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft was gearing up to speak with retailers at the National Retail Federation's annual Conference and Expo in New York City running tomorrow through Tuesday. The company announced yesterday that it will be... (Read More)

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USB Devices and other Peripherals

Intel chips will be core of embedded

32 Days Ago - With the release yesterday of Intel's Core series of high-performance, power-efficient processors, makers of space-constrained, mobile and other embedded devices now have a new low-cost option for their designs. The multi-core CPUs, dubbed Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7, incorporate Intel's Hyper... (Read More)

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Motherboards, CPUs and RAM

New Intel dual-core beats AMD quad

34 Days Ago - Intel tomorrow will officially unveil a pair of dual-core mobile processors with its Hyper threading technology, adding to its x86 line a low cost chip with performance akin to that of the company's i7, Pentium 4 and Xeon parts. The Core i3 and Core i5 processors, demonstrated by Hewlett-Packard... (Read More)

New AMD processors quadruple memory bandwidth

Nov 16th, 2009 - While most reporters and bloggers today are trumpeting the fine showing by chip-maker AMD in the semi-annual list of the world's Top 500 Supercompting Sites, for me the real news is what AMD has planned for next year. In the first quarter of 2010, AMD is scheduled to begin shipping a processor that... (Read More)

Intel Hot on Flash's Trail

Oct 29th, 2009 - 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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Window and Desktop Managers

Now open source: virtual desktop protocol SPICE

Dec 17th, 2009 - If you've ever remotely operated one computer from another, you've used desktop virtualization. It's been built into Linux, Mac OS X and Windows for years, but recent moves by Red Hat could signal that it's about to go mainstream. The Linux company late last week announced that it was opening the... (Read More)

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Windows Servers and IIS

Microsoft buys automation for System Center

Dec 12th, 2009 - Even Microsoft is sometimes faced with the decision of whether to "buy or build." This time it chose to buy. With the acquisition of Opalis Software announced yesterday, Redmond in one stroke takes a major leap in data center process automation. And it couldn't have come at a better time. Major... (Read More)

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Search Engine Optimization

How LSI handles development requirements

Dec 11th, 2009 - According to a Search Software Quality survey of 492 IT professionals, 22 percent struggle most with requirements gathering. Yet the same group said they spend less than 12 percent of their time doing it. Not so at LSI Corp., which probably made some of the storage silicon in the computer you're... (Read More)

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JavaScript / DHTML / AJAX

Twitter to open 'firehose' to developers

Dec 11th, 2009 - What if you had access to the millions of tweets that flow to and from Twitter users every day? Perhaps you'd build something like PostRank, which amasses them along with other data from social media sites to trackcyber-reaction to posted articles. Or maybe you would filter them by demographic and... (Read More)

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Mac Software

Apple to move iTunes libraries to the Web?

Dec 7th, 2009 - After a swirl of rumors that Apple was in talks to acquire music-streaming service Lala, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the companies had reached a deal. Exact terms were not disclosed. Lala, a four-year-old private company, offers a terrific Web-based music streaming and... (Read More)

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Game Development

Larrabee processor problem

Dec 6th, 2009 - Intel has confirmed reports that it will not release its next-generation graphics processor widely known as Larrabee as a discreet GPU. Instead, most reports indicate that the company will move ahead with its many-core processor as a design and development platform aimed at graphics rendering and... (Read More)

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Windows Vista and Windows 7

Government Job Better Than No Job

Dec 1st, 2009 - This is a bit off topic, but times are tough and money is money. There's an opportunity to earn between US$10 and $20 an hour working for the U.S. Census Bureau for the 2010 population count. And after seeing number of hits that "Craigslist: Developer's Jobs and Other Jobs" generated, I thought... (Read More)

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Networking Hardware Configuration

Double your server's maximum memory

Nov 24th, 2009 - Has your server's memory reached its 192GB limit? Last week a company called Netlist was demonstrating a new RDIMM technology that it claims can double per-CPU memory capacity without doubling the cost and without replacing any other hardware. At Supercomputing 09, the high performance computing... (Read More)

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C++

Visual Studio 2010 to 'abstract' parallel programming

Nov 17th, 2009 - With its release on Monday of the first public beta of Windows HPC Server 2008 RC2, Microsoft also was touting features introduced in the second beta of Visual Studio 2010. Expected in March, Redmond's next IDE will simplify development of new applications and modification of existing ones to take... (Read More)

Microsoft to enable Visual Studio on Linux and Mac OS X

Nov 13th, 2009 - Microsoft this week acquired Teamprise, a division of SourceGear that built tools to give developers access to Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server from systems running Linux, Mac OS X and Unix.SourceGear's flagship SourceOffSite provides remote access to Visual SouceSafe, Microsoft's version... (Read More)

Any function point specialists out there?

Oct 29th, 2009 - 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

Oct 28th, 2009 - 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

Oct 24th, 2009 - 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)

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HTML and CSS

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Firefox is besting IE

Nov 10th, 2009 - If you're not yet among the percentage of the population people using Mozilla's Firefox browser, which by one count stands at 47.5 percent, perhaps the anniversary of its launch will give you cause. Yesterday was Firefox's fifth birthday, and its market share with co-leader Internet Explorer by... (Read More)

Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Available

Nov 2nd, 2009 - 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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OS X

Free software for your Mac, iPhone

Nov 7th, 2009 - 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

Nov 6th, 2009 - 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?

Oct 26th, 2009 - 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)

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MySQL

Amazon: New, Improved Cloud, Now With MySQL

Oct 27th, 2009 - 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

Oct 26th, 2009 - 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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