SD
West delivers training on the latest languages, tools, technologies and trends taught by the most qualified instructors in the industry. This year’s curriculum features over 200 classes & tutorials in 12 technology tracks including Web Services, .NET, C++, Java, XML, Testing & Quality, Security, Business of Software and more. Plus visionary keynotes, networking events and a lively expo floor. Register by February 17 and save up $400!!
The 16th Annual Jolt Awards
Which products and books will compete for the coveted award this year?
Watch this space to find out.
Winners will be announced in March 2006 at SD
West in Santa Clara, Calif. See you there! (Click
here to view this year's list of finalists.)
SD-TV
SD-TV enables you to view and experience sessions from SD
Best Practices 2005 via high-quality video streamed to the Web.
Experience sessions and view informative exhibitor presentations on demand. Develop your expertise with SD-TV today!
Software Development PodCasts
Logidex Manages SOA Logic Library's Alan Himmler, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, and Brent Carlson, Co-Founder and Vice President of Technology talk about Logidex, the company's SOA governance tool. (MP3, 8:23 mins.)
SealedMedia Ulrike Wigger, CIO at Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln for SealedMedia. (MP3, 13:55 mins.)
Migrating Data Access to .NET .NET guru Jackie Goldstein discusses new features in .NET 2.0 and best practices for moving VB6 data access to .NET including in-depth information on ADO.NET 2.0 and how it differs from previous data access technologies. (MP3, 16:27 mins.)
Starting with Hybrid Apps .NET guru Jackie Goldstein talks about developing small applications or sub-systems in .NET to gradually migrate to .NET. (MP3, 17:06 mins.)
Find white papers, case studies, Webcasts and analyst reports on everything from design through development to testing and implementation at SD's Research Papers and Reports.
Christmas Chaos Jerry shares his gift recommendations for tech-savvy friends and family.
In the News
Reporter's Notebook: Google Casts Shadow Over DEMO Of more than 30 startups making their debut on Tuesday at the showcase for new technologies, about a third said Google's search results as the problem and their products the solution.
Microsoft Says Kama Sutra Overblown A manager of Microsoft's anti-virus development team warned that overhyping threats could lead to a "cry wolf" syndrome where future alerts aren't taken seriously.
nCipher Launches Encryption Suite nCipher Tuesday unveiled a suite of data encryption tools, all controlled from a central console and capable of encrypting data at the database, file, and application levels.
Awards & Honors
2005 Maggie Award Winner
In a testament to Art Director Dwight Been's creativity and humor, Software Development won Best Table of Contents, Trade & Consumer at the Western Publications Association’s 54th Annual Maggie Awards. The irreverent look at each month's cover photoshoot (penned by Been) and the easy-to-navigate design set this table of contents apart from those of other finalists in the category such as Diablo, Silicon Valley and InfoWorld.
The magazine was a finalist in two other categories, Best Software Magazine (September 2004, 20th anniversary issue) and Best Signed Editorial (July 2004, "Peeved at Payola"). The winners were announced on April 22, 2005 in Los Angeles. In 2003, Software Development won Best Software Magazine.
Jolt Winners
Winners of the 15th Annual Software
Development Jolt Product Excellence Awards have been announced. The award winners were honored at our gala ceremony on the evening of March 16, 2005,
in Santa Clara, California, at SD WEST
2005 and will be featured in the June 2005 issue of Software
Development. Click here to see
the list of winners.
SDmagazine.com Resources
Whitepapers
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Netseminars
CMP Developer Network Netseminars are interactive discussions with industry experts hosted by CMP Editors. Sign up for live netseminars and join in the discussion. You can also view previous netseminars from the past six months.
Mobilized Software
The Ultimate Resource for Building Mobile Applications
Developer Events
List of the latest developer conferences and events.
NetSeminars
Agile Data Modeling With Scott Ambler and The Power Of Design With David Dichmann We'll look at a case study that puts to use the practices described in Ambler's Productivity Award-winning Agile Database Techniques. Also, Sybase's David Dichmann shows how UML, business process modeling, XML, warehouse modeling, metadata cohesion and corporate standards enforcement work together in a 21st century data modeling solution.
Market-leading defect tracking from TechExcel DevTrack is a powerful, affordable and easy to use solution for project and defect tracking. It comprehensively tracks and manages all product defects, change requests, and other development issues.
Berkeley DB - A Technical Overview Watch this 20-minute video of Margo Seltzer, co-founder and CTO of Sleepycat Software, providing a conceptual introduction, technical overview and programming examples of Berkeley DB, the most widely deployed, open source, developer database.
Server-Side Persistence--Embedded Database Engine This customer solution paper discusses the requirements that lead Steam" to choose a non-SQL embedded database engine as a foundation for its user-authentication system, and the design and implementation decisions that helped meet their requirements.
DOVICO Time & Project Tracking Software Award winning DOVICO Track-IT Suite saves each employee 1 hour per week on timesheet and expense entry. Managers save over 2.5 hours per week on business operation efficiency, project tracking, reduced billing cycles and real-time reporting.
Current Issue Highlights
In a testament to Art Director Dwight Been's creativity and humor, Software Development won Best Table of Contents, Trade & Consumer at the Western Publications Association’s 54th Annual Maggie Awards. The irreverent look at each month's cover photoshoot (penned by Been) and the easy-to-navigate design set this table of contents apart from those of other finalists in the category such as Diablo, Silicon Valley and InfoWorld. 
