Middleware Developers

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: In this 3rd part of the Designing Artificial Intelligence for Games series, you'll learn how to give your agents higher orders of intelligence. The agents can already deal with the immediate situation they find themselves in; now you are working toward artificial intelligence (AI) that deals with broader goals and the bigger picture.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 21 Jul 2009

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: IT Problem: JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. Combining a clean interface for organising issues with customisable workflows, JIRA is the perfect fit for your team.

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 | Premiered: 25 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Automated testing will shorten your development cycles, avoid cumbersome repetitive tasks and help improve software quality but how do you get started? The best practices discussed in this white paper help ensure results and a successful foundation for improving your software quality.

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 | Published: 14 Sep 2010

EGUIDE: This e-guide examines organizational and team challenges of implementing the agile process. This e-guide also will detail how to scale agile software development to large organizations by scaling agile practices and agile work; how to transition small and large development teams to Scrum; and more.

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 | Published: 29 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: The content in the planning and architecture guides IT Pros in the development of conceptual, logical, and physical designs for configuring Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 features, servers, and topologies.

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 | Published: 10 Dec 2009

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: It's amazing how many books on parallel computing use the term parellelism without clearly defining it. In this technical article, Charles Leiserson, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, provides a brief introduction to this theory.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: This article describes how to develop flexible WS Management-based solutions for Intel® Active Management Technology using the .NET development environment. The basic ingredients and building blocks of a WSMan-based solution will be presented. We've included some coding samples (written using Windows 2008) to help illustrate this information.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will take you through a real life example of how to parse, validate and test a 5-part SWIFT message. Discover a tool that can speed up this lengthy process with source code that parses, validates and provides full APIs.

Posted: 03 Oct 2007 | Published: 01 May 2007

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: The version 1.0 release of the Intel® Media Software Development Kit (SDK) equips developers with a standard application programming interface (API) for creating video solutions that target consumer and professional uses. Read this article to learn more about this product as well as the benefits for developers.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Aug 2009

EZINE: In this week's Computer Weekly, we talk to the man tasked with bringing public services into the digital age. The second installment of our Buyer's Guide to business intelligence reviews two low-cost alternatives to the big suppliers; and we go behind the scenes of the IT preparations for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 | Published: 13 Sep 2011