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Inside Spyware: A Guide to Finding, Removing, and Preventing Online Pests
Your organization's computers are possibly being used to send spam, harvest e-mail addresses, make purchases on stolen credit cards or take part in denial of service attacks. Learn how to indentify, avoid, and remove malware from computers and keep your network and machines safe. »
Tips for Selecting Software Vendors IT managers need a proven, steadfast process for sifting through the hundreds of choices available for each enterprise software market segment. There are a series of steps for ensuring a result that will survive the intense, long-term scrutiny this level of investment will certainly attract. »
Storage Basics: A Guide to the World of Storage Technology Regardless of industry, size, or age, businesses are awash in more data than ever before. Federal regulations require that data be stored, protected, and retrievable for a certain amount of time. Storage is also a growing area in IT, which means employment opportunities exist now, and should exist for some time.
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Building Your Own IP PBX
If you're already into having control of your computing infrastructure, taking charge of your telephone network is a natural progression. Asterisk is an open source PBX that runs on Linux. It can free your organization from expensive commercial PBXs, and gives you complete control over your telephone services »
Newest Architecture & Design Articles Testability and Design By Jeff Langr - Published 10/10/2007 How important is testing in software development? Explore the relationship between testability and design.
Tip: Benefiting from Code Base Standardization By David DeWolf - Published 09/27/2007 Instead of becoming frustrated with coding conventions and naming, recognize their importance and learn to use them to your benefit.
Tip: The Psychology of Builds By David DeWolf - Published 09/20/2007 Assess your build situation and discover whether your automation is encouraging or discouraging best practices such as unit testing.
Considering Test-After Development By Jeff Langr - Published 09/19/2007 Should you write tests first, or write the code first, and then write tests after? Explore the time it takes to develop the same solution using both techniques.
Resource Management: An Introduction By Art Sedighi - Published 09/18/2007 Take a look at the resource management side of the Grid and virtualized environment. It is not an easy problem to tackle. Hopefully, the tactics shown here will help.
.NET Tip: Data Encapsulation: Using Properties Instead of Public Variables By Jay Miller - Published 09/14/2007 Here is encapsulation, one of the very basic tenets of object-oriented programming. Using properties instead of public variables helps insulate the users of your class from change, provides you more flexibility, and will ease maintenance of your class.
Object Integrity & Security: Error & Exceptions By Matt Weisfeld - Published 09/06/2007 One of the advantages of using object-oriented languages is that much of the error/exception handling is built directly into the language itself. Thus, many of these issues can be handled during the design of the application—and not when the application crashes in the hands of a user.
Highlighted Architecture & Design Tutorials Ten Aspects of Security to Improve Application Strength By Chad Cook -
Making mistakes when trying to build secure applications can lead to critical flaws and vulnerabilities. Learn how to strengthen an application and avoid costly mistakes.
Applying Design Patterns to Solve Design Issues By James Maioriello -
Discover how design patterns help to identify and isolate the system-level variability so the software can evolve over time without adversely affecting the underlying design structure.
UML Tools By Mandar Chitnis, Pravin Tiwari, & Lakshmi Ananthamurthy -
Who wants to work with pen and paper when there are cool tools available? This second article in the UML series will introduce you to key products and features.