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Behind the lens of NASA's self-adapting ISS space telescope

Analysis A hunk of space glass this ain't
Science14 May 2012 | 13

Apple vs Amazon in ereader format smackdown

iBooks enlists kiddies on the EPUB3 front
Software06 Feb 2012 | 56

Time up for Oracle's HTML5 killer?

Open-source Java: Part Three Message to Ellison: no more JavaFX reboots
Software28 Nov 2011 | 17

Java's 'Steve Jobs' moment in 2012?

Open-source Java: Part Two OpenJDK: Right ideas, wrong timing
Software17 Nov 2011 | 20

Five years of open-source Java: Freedom isn't (quite) free

Open-source Java: Part One Rapture foretold: Java 8 to ascend into the Cloud
OSes13 Nov 2011 | 13

TfL wheels out digital bus info upgrade

Countdown II embraces API-hungry developer masses
SaaS19 Oct 2011 | 31

Oracle's Java plan trapped in last century

Clouds leave Ellison behind
Software30 Jun 2011 | 26

Petabyte-chomping big sky telescope sucks down baby code

Beyond the MySQL frontier
Science26 Nov 2010 | 17

Behind the Kindle, under the iPad: an unholy alliance

Frankfurt Book Fair E-book software and services vs. literature
Legal14 Oct 2010 | 46

How Ellison could fight Google's Android - without lawyers

Lessons from Java's painful past
Software20 Sep 2010 | 21

No secret to stopping XSS and SQL injection attacks

Read, test, communicate, repeat
Software23 Jun 2010 | 21

Porky Visual Studio way over the hill

Code Bubbles, not bloat, for .NET and Java
Software26 Apr 2010 | 40

Don't blame Willy the Mailboy for software security flaws

In defense of developers
Software25 Mar 2010 | 48

Oracle should cannibalize JavaFX Frankenstein

Comment Time to get Swinging
Software18 Feb 2010 | 32

Surreal appeal of Sun's JavaFX for mobile

Review Java ME a safer bet?
Software17 Feb 2009 | 4

Gaps blight JavaFX early promise

Review Sun repeats Swing mistakes
Software08 Dec 2008 | 5

Java and Linux - an open marriage in search of success

Two-years and counting
Software28 Nov 2008 | 17

Mapping the universe at 30 Terabytes a night

Interview Jeff Kantor, on building and managing a 150 Petabyte database
Software03 Oct 2008 | 27

JavaFX preview highlights critical weaknesses

Review Potential riches uncertain
Software21 Aug 2008 | 10

Sun's JavaFX must toolup against Adobe - pronto

JavaFX, part 2 Ask not for whom the school bell tolls...
Software14 Jul 2008 | 12

Sun to lose lunch money on JavaFX

JavaFX, part 1 Opens wallet to tough kids
Channel12 Jun 2008 | 14

Frameworks and the danger of a grand design

Hard-lesson learned
Channel29 May 2008 | 25

Hafta Man and the threat to agile design

Pragmatism, not grand plans
Channel30 Apr 2008 | 9

Comment judiciously, refactor if needed, avoid the 'f' word

Learn from the shame of Windows 2000
Channel28 Mar 2008 | 27

Sweet, sweet smell of comments in code?

Extreme Programming breeds overreaction
Channel18 Mar 2008 | 65

Time for UML tools to evolve

Refactoring gap
Channel29 Feb 2008 | 18

Tools vendors stuck on UML and agility

Give us our refactoring moment
Channel13 Feb 2008 | 9

Penguin-powered UML modeling

Vista relief is here
OSes29 Jan 2008 | 7

Telltale signs your model is stuck

Analysis paralysis: part two
Channel03 Jan 2008 | 6

Sequence diagramming that's fit for purpose

Book extract, part 4 Illustrate your point
Channel22 Dec 2007 | 4

How to avoid the model quagmire

Part one: Analysis paralysis
Channel18 Dec 2007 | 7

Close the gap between analysis and design

Book extract, part 3 Get robust
Channel14 Dec 2007 |

Bloody code!

Multiple exit points
Channel04 Dec 2007 | 65

Model use cases that work

Book extract, part 2 Think succinct
Channel23 Nov 2007 |

The ICONIX Process in pieces: Domain modelling

Book extract, part I Keep refining
Channel13 Nov 2007 |

A simple unit test for GUIs

Hands on Part 2: Server envy
Channel12 Nov 2007 | 2

Don't unit test GUIs

Part I A different viewpoint
Software22 Oct 2007 | 5

Why UML won't save your project

Modelling a badly thought-out project just doesn't help...
Channel08 Oct 2007 | 10

Persona analysis

The vital practice, or worse than doing nothing?
Software20 Sep 2007 | 1

Shotgun Wedding: Enterprise Architect 7.0

Good UML diagramming that won't break the bank
Software31 Aug 2007 | 5

Disintermangling use case scenarios from requirements

Yes, it is a word...
Software17 Aug 2007 | 1

Vague and ambiguous use cases revisited

Join Camp Gritty
Software30 Jul 2007 | 5

Use case style means handbags at 30 paces

Style is all that matters
Software19 Jul 2007 |

Evolutionary database design

'Technically trivial'
Software04 Jul 2007 | 9

Not quite got to grips with Agile?

Books Part 2: Hold on and come for the ride
Software18 Jun 2007 |

All you need to know to get agile

Book review Part 1: Agile planning books round-up
Software04 Jun 2007 |

Grappling with eels - second wriggle

Planning: (mostly) harmless
Software23 May 2007 |

Grappling with eels - first wriggle

Column The Slippery World of Agile Planning
Software10 May 2007 |

Green Bar of Shangri-La

The Agile Iconoclast On unit testing and code coverage
Software25 Apr 2007 | 1

Do large projects silence osmotic communication?

Comment Or can you still be agile?
Software10 Apr 2007 | 1

Software is never done… Or is it?

The Agile Iconoclast gets things done
Software27 Mar 2007 | 11

What’s Your Agile Value?

Column Agilists can miss the point
Software12 Mar 2007 | 8

Vague and ambiguous use cases

Column How abstract should your specs be?
Software26 Feb 2007 | 5

Non-Humans need not apply: choosing your Agile dream team

Matt Stephens gets to grip with people issues and team building
Software12 Feb 2007 | 3

The perils of pair programming

Column The Agile Iconoclast goes solo
Software31 Jan 2007 | 18

We are all Agilists now

Software agility is a tricky beast to pin down, due largely to its 'fluffy' nature
Software15 Jan 2007 |

Analysis, design, and never the twain shall meet

Jumping the chasm
Software04 Jan 2007 | 2

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