When an organisation’s web applications grind to a halt, IT staff need to move fast. But obtaining a clear picture of what has gone wrong is far from straightforward. Standard system management tools ...

The technical problems that affected the performance and availability of third-party Twitter applications in recent days have been fixed, the micro-blogging and social networking company said Monday ...

The server-side architecture of an application can have a significant impact on how well the application performs. I’ve seen examples where an application server had to make queries against a database ...

I believe that almost any programming language can be used to build almost any kind of user interface, but that the closer the user interface is to the assumptions built into the language, the simpler ...

We previously reported on a broad range of issues that can be caused by using the System Migration function to move from a PowerPC-based Mac OS X system to an Intel-based Mac OS X system [see articles ...

The average software application depends on more than 500 open source libraries and components, up 77% from 298 dependencies in two years, highlighting the difficulty of tracking the vulnerabilities ...

The endless catalog of IT failure rests on a foundation of poor judgment, inadequate communication across business groups and information silos, and conflicting agendas. Most of my blogging discusses ...

Site lets students apply to multiple schools at once More than 500 schools accept the application Site%27s glitches prompted some schools to delay deadlines WASHINGTON — Computer problems have plagued ...

We continue to report on sluggish performance exhibited by virtually all of Adobe's Creative Suite 2 (CS2) applications, including Illustrator, Photoshop, GoLive and InDesign. The most affected tool ...