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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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C++

Visual Studio 2010 to 'abstract' parallel programming

3 Days Ago - 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

7 Days Ago - 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?

22 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

23 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

27 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?

Oct 7th, 2009 - 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

Oct 5th, 2009 - 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

New AMD processors quadruple memory bandwidth

4 Days Ago - 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

22 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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Cellphones, PDAs and Handheld Devices

3D graphics now on BlackBerry

7 Days Ago - 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

10 Days Ago - 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

19 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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HTML and CSS

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Firefox is besting IE

10 Days Ago - 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

18 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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OS X

Free software for your Mac, iPhone

13 Days 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

14 Days 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?

25 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

29 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?

29 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'

Oct 6th, 2009 - 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

16 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

34 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

Oct 7th, 2009 - 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)

Toys ‘r’ Welcome, And Le’go my Legos

Nov 5th, 2008 - Attention marketing professionals: Sending cute toys along with press releases is a good way to get me to notice them. I received a package today from Actuate, which makes RIA and business intelligence tools. In addition to news about BIRT-based Actuate 10, which I’ll get to in a minute, the... (Read More)

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MySQL

Amazon: New, Improved Cloud, Now With MySQL

24 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

25 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

34 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

Oct 10th, 2009 - 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?

Oct 5th, 2009 - 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)

Can Windows 7 Save Microsoft From Itself?

Nov 9th, 2008 - I think we can safely say that Windows Vista was a flop. The only one that doesn't seem to know it is Microsoft. Or does it? This week at WinHEC, the company introduced a series of capabilities in Windows 7 that it says will "make it easier for hardware partners to create new experiences 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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Windows Software

There Are 349,140 Software Testers in the U.S.

Nov 12th, 2008 - Two weeks ago I was asked a question to which, given my occupation, I should have known the answer. The question was: “How many software testers are there?” Being editor of a magazine about software testing, that's a number I should have know cold. At the time, I offered an estimate of about... (Read More)

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Pay-Per-Click Advertising

Code Tool For Android Touches Down

Nov 11th, 2008 - Android's Java front-end gives Google's mobile platform an instant community of app developers and Java-specific tools. But beginning today, there's also a static code scanner that's aware of Android's APIs. Klocwork, which makes automated source code analysis solutions, today began shipping a... (Read More)

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Linux Servers and Apache

IntelliJ Has a New IDEA (version 8)

Nov 6th, 2008 - Support for RESTful Web services, JBoss Seam and Java refactorings and code inspections are among the new features in IntelliJ IDEA 8, JetBrains' Java IDE for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows that began shipping today. If you're not familiar, JetBrains' raison d'être is to make an integrated development... (Read More)

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Web Browsers

Browser Bug Hunting Contest Opens Today

Nov 3rd, 2008 - Who couldn't use some extra cash these days? Thousands of dollars in prize money is up for grabs as testers face off in Battle of the Browsers, a seven-day contest that starts today. Applications in the contest's arena are Google's Chrome, Firefox 3.1 alpha 2 and IE 8. To qualify, bugs must be... (Read More)

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Graphics and Multimedia

Software Testing Takes Up Residence in the Cloud

Oct 27th, 2008 - Zephyr today launched version 2.0 of its namesake software test management tool, which is now available as a SaaS in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. Zephyr gives development teams a Flash-based system for communication, collaboration, resource, document and project management, test-case creation... (Read More)

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Apple Hardware

Does Anyone Care that Apple Favors Same-Sex Marriage?

Oct 25th, 2008 - I don't care who Joe Buck supports for President. I just don't want to know. Thankfully, he's never shared his preference while describing plays of the World Series for Fox Sports, at least as far as I've ever heard. Likewise, I don't want to know the views of Robert Deniro on climate change, Susan... (Read More)

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USB Devices and other Peripherals

Project Ties SugarCRM with Gmail

Oct 25th, 2008 - Wouldn't it be nice if you could track Gmail messages about specific features and bugs from within your defect tracking system? You can if you're using the open-source SugarCRM, thanks to a team of Italian developers that today launched DolceGmail. The new plug-in for Firefox links Google's... (Read More)

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