Did He Just LISP?
When developing complex graphical applications, it is essential to work in an interactive development environment, according to developers. LISP, they say, offers a superb interactive environment that...
View ArticleProgress In Financial Software
You know the story. Budget time is fast approaching and-Surprise!-everybody is breathing down your neck for the latest data on expenditures-to-date, last year’s spending level, year-over-year...
View ArticleSoftware Support Is Always A Good Call
The software market is the only one in which customers have no legal recourse if the product they have just bought does not work. When a PC develops a fault, the remedy is straightforward — you take...
View ArticleJust StuffIt Already!
Small is big… Whether it’s miniskirts or miniburgers, there’s big business in getting small — and that’s especially true when it comes to data. With files frequently reaching multimegabyte sizes, data...
View ArticleOn IBM’s Relationship With Sybase
It’s not as if Paul Hamel hadn’t been trying for God only knows how long to dump the frumpy old IBM’3270 dumb-terminal-based, on-line CICS/VSAM COBOL applications he and his staff had been nursing...
View ArticleHow to Repair an External Hard Drive
External hard drive can have a problem just like the internal drive. When this happens it undergoes through repair hard drive like every other disk. You first need to plug in the USB cable connecting...
View ArticleDistributed Development Works
When you try building mainframe apps on little PCs, you can’t always get there from here. Follow these directions and you can arrive unharmed. We’ve all seen the commercial. A concerned consumer...
View ArticleBuying Computer Code Works
I used to program for a living. However, given a choice between solving a problem by writing some code or buying the solution off the shelf, I’d take the store route every time. So should you. With...
View ArticleQuicktime Innovates
When Apple Computer Inc. introduced its QuickTime 1.0 time-based file format for Macintosh computers two years ago, the company also created a new resource, the “pnot.” pnot gives QuickTime-savvy...
View ArticleXBase – A New Vision For dBase
The logo is strong. The word is Xbase: it means all the dBase-derived database application development languages, considered collectively in some way. But try getting a roomful of programmers, database...
View ArticleXBase Part II
As vendors continue to build in new features that depart from the original dbase standard, the chances increase that one or more will attempt to dominate the standard-setting process. Corporate...
View ArticleConnecting With Object Oriented Technologies
Object technology and multimedia get tossed around a lot as industry buzzwords, but figuring out just what they mean can be confusing. Part of the reason for the confusion is that these terms cover a...
View ArticleEmail Changes Roles
The role of electronic mail is changing quickly and dramatically. Over time, e-mail will become the iceberg of the computing world. People will see their interpersonal messages, which might make up 10...
View ArticlePreventing Hard Drive Failure In Macs And PCs
You have experienced a hard drive crash before, and are now worried that the same thing might happen again, this article will probably be a good read for you. If you are keen on protecting your data...
View ArticleA Brief Look At Damaged Laptop Hard Drive Recovery
In this technology oriented world, data has probably more worth than the amount of dollars stashed in the bank accounts. The whole business community as well as other organizations cannot function...
View ArticleThe Physical Side of Hard Drive Damage
In computing, a hard drive problem occurs when a hard drive fails and along with it stored data is at risk. The most classic reason for a hard drive problem is a head crash. The inner read-and-write...
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