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Software glitches may be behind sudden acceleration and braking failures in Toyota vehicles. Can software quality ever match what Toyota achieved in hardware manufacturing?

The road to SQL started with Dr. E.F. Codd's paper, "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks", published in Communications of the ACM in June 1970.

Google's awarding prizes of $500 to $1337 for security bugs in Chrome and Chromium. So fire up that download, elite vulnerability hunters. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers look after the pennies. Not to mention GHP is back in town ...
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Missing software engineers have joined iGDP economy

An ex-Microsoft employee appears to have leaked the release date for Windows 8 -- as well as Windows Server 2012 and Office 15. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers shun the iPad hype and imagine the free beta download within a year. Not to mention an Impressive backwards basketball shot...
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This pilot fish supports a medical database program that's used by customers all over the country. But when one customer needs a sudden bug-fix update, everything goes well -- at first.

I use a three step process for trying out a new technology:

1. Find a way to try it out with minimal time and budget impact.
2. Discuss my experience in a large community.
3. Try it again.

The latest Chrome Web browser is faster than ever, but what really matters is its new and improved feature set.

Mulling an in-house coding project has crystallized what I like best and least about the three scripting languages I turn to most frequently: Perl, PHP and Ruby.

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, wants to know if proprietary programs should be included in their distributions and, if so, which ones.

This mainframe database pilot fish doesn't have to deal much with dumbness from users. But application programmers? That's a different matter.

Happy New Year and Decade to all software developers.  I hope you many software development successes in 2010.  Over the holiday break, I spent some time thinking about the tools that I use for my own development.  In my work at Embarcadero Technologies, I mostly use integrated development environments (IDE).

The fastest Web browser on Linux by a gigantic margin is Chrome, and now that it supports extensions, it may just be the best Web browser on Linux.

Linux? What's Linux? By 2019, Linux will be everywhere, and totally invisible.

Google's first attempt at real-time search is forcing a "feature" into a system that previously worked for its users. The result is a compromised user experience of a product that previously worked well. Anyone else think this smacks of feature-creep at the expense of usability?