Software Development


Software Development Agreements -- Just Hold Your Nose and Write One

The late movie producer Samuel Goldwyn, a Russian immigrant with a shaky command of English, was famous for his malapropisms. Perhaps his most famous, and...  Read story

From Forklifts to Software

Helping employees adjust to a more complex product line.  Read story

NetSuite Launches Business Operating System

The new SaaS application development platform targets developers, vendors and resellers.  Read story

Put a Hacker to Work

TopCoder has an unusual way of finding talent. It hosts code-writing contests, in which geeks around the world compete for bragging rights and cash.  Read story

How Hard Could It Be?: Five Easy Ways to Fail

Nothing like a weak team or an unrealistic schedule to start a project off right  Read story

Mail

Tattoo You Mario Barth [" King Ink ," November] is ...  Read story

Avaya to Use Broadcom's VoIP for IP Phones

Avaya (NYSE:AV)  has decided to use the VoIP technology of Broadcom (NASDAQ:BRCM)  to power two award-winning lines of its one-X Deskphone IP te...  Read story

Computer Careers -- The Sky's Still The Limit

The demand for data processing specialists continues to rise in 1981, with no end to the increase in sight. According to a survey conducted by the Fox-Mo...  Read story

I Unchained My Chain Of Command

There's a right way and a wrong way to delegate authority.The author's now much happier and more in control with the right structure.  Read story

"cottage Industry" In The Computer Business

Software produced by programmers operating out of their homes has become a growing resource in the computer industry. The market for the "cottage" progra...  Read story

Technology: Finding Freelance Programmers

Using sites like oDesk, Elance, Guru, and RentACoder to find the best developers  Read story

My Terrible Vacation

'It must be every entrepreneur's fantasy: you and your spouse spend years building a fast-growth, INC. 500-level company. As the business matures, you go ...  Read story

Joel Spolsky: The Day My Industry Died

A decade ago, everybody was starting a Web consulting business, so I did too. Then, one day, the industry died. Does that sound familiar?  Read story

Understanding Geeks

A field guide to your tech staff.  Read story

How Hard Could It Be?: The Four Pillars of Organic Growth

Revenue, head count, PR, and quality--if one gets ahead of the others, you're screwed.  Read story

Recruiting the Top 1 Percent

There's a better way to find and hire the very best employees.  Read story

Have It Your Way

Program generators can allow you to be your own best source for software.  Read story

How to Manage Volunteer Software Developers

Companies like Etsy use developer tools such as APIs to entice developers to build mobile applications for free  Read story

Uncle Sam Giveth, Uncle Sam Taketh Away

Back in 1981, Congress did a nice thing for the cause of technological innovation -- or so it seemed at the time. Included in that year's Economic Recover...  Read story

Plug and Pay

Some horror tales of hiring the wrong high-tech consultant, and how to avoid this dangerous situation.  Read story

Would Ho Chi Minh Have Owned A Laptop?

Some quick figures and stats about high technology in today's Vietnam.  Read story

Email's Little Helpers

Microsoft Outlook may be the most widely used e-mail tool on the planet, but it's hardly perfect. That's why enterprising programmers have created dozens of ...  Read story

The Birth Of An Industry

Working in their attics, basements, and garages, seven entrepreneurs tacked together a totally new industry.  Read story

Managing: How to Work More Like a Start-Up

Rekindle that startup spirit with agile development  Read story

How Hard Could It Be?: How I Learned to Love Middle Managers

I hoped to create a utopian workplace. Instead, I caused an employee revolt.  Read story

How Hard Could It Be?: Thanks or No Thanks

A young employee came up with an idea that added a million dollars to our bottom line. How do we reward him for the contribution? Do we even have to?  Read story

Following the Talent

Business: Maker of retirement plan processing software Locations: Birmingham, Ala.; Chicago; and Boston Read story

Playing a Waiting Game

In these days of painful labor shortages, growing companies need nothing less than a grand master of recruiting to hire the best programmers. So believes ...  Read story

Get With the Programmers

Can Linux really take on Microsoft's Windows? Our man in the Valley risked possible sunburn and certain embarrassment to find out.  Read story

High-tech Industry Turns To Retirees

"There has always been the assumption that when people leave the work force they want to sever all connections with their jobs," says Robert Zager, vice-p...  Read story

Reprogramming the Company

A close-up study of how a company brought in its own expert to upgrade its system, and what that was like.  Read story

The Internet: Choose Experts Cautiously

A CEO tells of his problems setting up an Internet site and what he plans to do now.  Read story

Microsoft Releases .NET Micro Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT)  this week announced the availability of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework 2.0, featuring new...  Read story

What's Next: Software for Non-Dummies

Integrating new applications can be easy, if you let it be.  Read story

How Hard Could it Be?: Glory Days

As Bill Gates retires, our columnist recalls what it was like to work for the world's most successful entrepreneur  Read story

Working with Student Contractors

You can obtain professional-quality Web work at low cost by working with college students. Students have acquired many of the design or programming...  Read story

Free Software

Company sells list of software programs available free from the government.  Read story

Ensim Launches Saas Development Kit

New tools for independent software vendors  Read story

Sharing What You've Customized

Off-the-shelf software programs often just don't do the trick. A company has tomake an investment ? either by hiring consultants or by devoting personnel ...  Read story