IT Readings Log: June 2005

IBM Opens Fifth Software Center in India

Ok, here's IBM investing again and again in the Indian offshore industry. This is because India has a great marketing in this area and this is because they fully understood the potential of this business and they show all the interest possible around this type of deals.

It is not only about marketing it is also about great results and a history of software investments in this country / area.

My question goes against the wind again: what about Romania?

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/43789.html

Developers Should Carry the Banner of Software Standards

Interesting article on Software standards, quality and warranties. Software is no longer a "new" industry and due to that more standards and better defined rules are needed. The problem, as anywhere, is not having better defined rules but following these rules strictly. The problem is also making the Customer understand what is the software product about, as quality and standards compliance.

If software industry will abide more and more by the rules and make these known to the world, then price on software products that do follow more quality standards might be higher, but the quality and warranties of that software will be higher as level. We need more warranties when buying software, but these can be obtained only by setting up straightforward standards.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1821919,00.asp

Longhorn Outruns XP, Threatens Tiger

Some news... a little better than the ones we got used with on the Longhorn.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1824783,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000610

JavaScript: Other Cool JavaScript References

Client-Side Scripting links again, some clasics, some new.

DRAG n' Drop
http://www.walterzorn.com/dragdrop/dragdrop_e.htm

AJAX techniques
http://www.javarss.com/ajax/j2ee-ajax.html
http://www.baekdal.com/articles/Usability/usable-XMLHttpRequest/

FUN (Guess the Google)
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google/

JAVA: Some IDE news

Java guys, here it is a short article reviewing a list of new released Java Development Environments like Eclipse, NetBeans, JBuilder and IntelliJ IDEA, all of them just launched. Looks like it’s a Java summer :-)

http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view?id=269865

Microsoft Targets Internet-Phone Market in Deal with AT&T

I expected that coming. VOIP will probable have a great future as business in the upcoming years... why not getting ahead of any competitors and take a chance on these opportunities. Good Move!

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/43577.html

Microsoft Office 12 Pushes XML Technology

This article talks about all kind of XML usage predictions. It looks that in a couple of years the XML document format will be the dominant format. Most of the tools will base their technology on XML.

Don’t know what XML is? It is time to learn ...

http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/43534.html

... and here are some issues raised by eWeek on how "open" and "standard" will be the XML technology pushed by Microsoft and how much room for "third-party" opportunities there will be:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1823221,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000610