September 13, 2005

EclipseME—Another IDE Option for J2ME Development

ood news for mobile application developers: The open source IDEs for J2ME are starting to come into their own. In a recent article on DevX, I reported that Sun’s NetBeans Mobility Pack is worth investigation. The 4.1 release of the Mobility Pack still has room to grow, but it is

The ‘Secure by Default’ Features of SQL Server 2005

oftware security is a very important topic, because not a single day passes without the discovery of some new exploit. Windows 2003 Server was the first product Microsoft shipped under the motto “secure by default.” The whole server is locked down by default, and you have to activate each service