Object-Oriented Programming

Six lessons I learned about writing software

22 May 2012

From independent software developers to the enterprise, everyone is looking for ways to improve software development, increasing productivity while not sacrificing performance. Software technologies continue to change, but have programmers really found the real keys to faster development cycles, more reliable software and improved performance? While it is obvious we have more powerful software ...

Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

21 May 2012

David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs -- 343 million lines of code -- that run core banking and other operations. But many of the people who built that code base, some of which dates back to Cobol's early days in the 1960s, will be retiring over the next ...

#Ebook Deal/Day: Programming Perl - $19.99 (Save 50%)

21 May 2012

Your shopping cart is empty. I'm really disappointed in the quality of the binding on the print edition. I've had my copy only a couple of weeks, and several of the signatures are detached from the binding. Perfect binding doesn't work with this thickness.