This month I’m going back to programming for a while. I need a rest from the weirdness on the Talkback discussion in last month’s column. I do intend to write more about theory issues in the future, ...

The business intelligence (BI) tools of earlier generations were not very user-friendly. So much so that you had to have significant technical skills to interact with them. This meant decision-makers ...

One of the key benefits of Agile software development is its ability to reduce complex software projects into small, easily manageable user stories. User stories not only describe how a client will ...

As of August 1, Microsoft will raise the prices of a number of its User client-access licenses (CALs) by 13 percent. The affected CALs are for on-premises, not cloud, products. The prices of Device ...

While COVID-19 can claim some credit for more workers than ever performing their job duties remotely over the course of this year, the fact is the corporate world has been moving in that direction for ...

That’s one of the most frequently asked questions about Thunderbird, according to Thunderbird Project Design Manager Alessandro Castellani (along with “Is Thunderbird dead?”). And it’s one he seeks to ...

To enhance the privacy of its users and reduce the complexity of updating User-Agent strings, Google Chrome plans to move to a new system that web sites can use to identify information about their ...

In “Create Client-Side User Interfaces in HTML, Part 1,” I discussed in depth HTMLPane, a class that simplifies layout of client-side user interfaces by letting you specify them in HTML and providing ...