No service, with a smile
When great customer service is bad business, and bad service is the very best business strategy MANAGEMENTSPEAK: Thanks for clarifying that point. TRANSLATION: Now we’re confused at a higher level. — Thanks to this week’s anonymous IS Survivalist for clarifying…
From Peru, with love
A Peruvian congressman dismantles Microsoft’s arguments against an open source-friendly bill IF YOU HAVE been monitoring the technology news abroad, you may have noticed an interesting fact: Countries across the globe, including Germany, France, and China, are actively considering using…
My workplace or yours?
CleverPath Portal 4.0 scores with flexible deployment for IT and easy content sharing for end-users CORPORATE PORTALS SERVE two very important purposes: They consolidate data from various sources behind a common, easy-to-use interface, and they provide an effective way to…
Wish on a star come true
With rich new features and a low price tag, StarOffice 6.0 may be the Office alternative the enterprise has long awaited WHEN YOU THINK of office productivity suites, the word “choice” probably does not spring to mind. For years, Microsoft…
Crossing over to Linux
CrossOver Office lets users work with familiar MS apps on lower-cost Linux desktops, but with a small performance hit MANY BUSINESSES TODAY are examining the possibility of employing Linux-based desktop systems. Because Linux has a reputation for excellent stability and…
Computing on the edge
CTO Justin Chapweske talks about Onion Networks’ WebRAID end-to-end content delivery solution EVERYONE SEES APPLICATION logic moving out to the edge of the network over time, but the prevailing wisdom of the day is that IT organizations will have to…
Java Tip 128: Create a quick-and-dirty XML parser
Parse valid XML using minimal code XML is a popular data format for several reasons: it is human readable, self-describing, and portable. Unfortunately, many Java-based XML parsers are very large; for example, Sun Microsystems’ jaxp.jar and parser.jar libraries are 1.4…
Sync up Palm OS with J2ME
Develop Palm HotSync conduits that interact with MIDP apps Have you used any standalone applications for your mobile device lately? Probably not; most applications would be useless without some communication to the outside world. For example, doctors and nurses now…
Java Product News (updated May 31, 2002)
Clover reveals unexecuted code; Alcea Technologies updates error tracking system; and more Clover reveals unexecuted code May 31 — Cortex has released Clover, a code coverage tool for Java that discovers sections of code that are not being executed. A…
Master J2ME for live data delivery
Support multiple applications on multiple devices with this J2ME framework Wireless applications that must contact a remote server for their data present special problems for the developer. Protocol support in J2ME (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition) is much more limited…
