For 2010, Gartner finds that IT budgets will grow just 1.3 percent. That’s not a big increase, particularly after last year’s decrease of 8.1 percent. As a result, 2010 IT budgets will roughly equal 2005 IT budgets. IT departments are dealing with the situation by investing in technologies that can
Nearly everyone in the tech industry has been affected in some way by the economic downturn, but some are better positioned than others to weather the storm. Who are they? Open-source developers. “Their code?and thus their work?lives on in an open-source community, where it can easily be seen and used
In the last two articles in the series I implemented the Model and the Controller parts for the menu system, and one implementation for the View part representing a Treeview-like menu. In this part I?ll show how to create a new implementation for menu visual component featuring an Outlook-like navigation
As all the controversies surrounding open-source have become messier, the model has slowly become more mainstream. InfoWorld notes that despite critical news reports, “Open source software is taking the lead in a number of categories, with big guys like Google and IBM using it as a wedge to dislodge commercial
InformationWeek reports, “Independent iPhone game developer Noel Llopis, creator of the Flower Garden app, recently analyzed his first ten months of work and concluded that he was making $13.44 an hour during this period. That’s not exactly the iPhone gold rush that everyone has been talking about.” In fact, a