Allison Taylor

Articles by Allison Taylor

Knights, peasants, castles and Java

PRAGUE - The University of Calgary has walked away with the crown at the IBM Corp. Java Challenge 2004. In a match that brought together the best and the worst of medieval times, Calgary has proven that cowboy boots are the best footwear for beating down other teams of programmers.

RSS rears its head at Sun

Building on a grassroots momentum that is starting to develop legs within the enterprise, Sun Microsystems Inc. is beginning to forge a relationship with Really Simple Syndication or RDF Site Summary (RSS).

Security an ongoing threat for Canadian CFOs

Canadian chief financial officers are feeling vulnerable with the security of their information systems, according to a new survey by Robert Half Management Resources in Toronto.

ISPs launch legal attack on world

Four leading Internet service providers (ISPs) have filed six lawsuits against hundreds of defendants who they are calling the world

JCP 2.6 looking for earlier developer input

In an effort to give a broader group of developers earlier access to draft Java specifications, the Java Community Process (JCP)

New JSF standard becomes reality

The final version of the JavaServer Faces (JSF) specification 1.0 was launched recently with the intention of simplifying the development of user interfaces for Web-based JavaServer applications.

Exchange testing XML variant

The emerging XML-based standard isn't widespread in Canada, but in deploying Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) across its operations, Toronto-based TSX Group

Students get hands-on WAN training

For Anthony Lucifero, having the opportunity to learn about wide area network (WAN) protocols on a real-life network is better than just reading about them in a textbook.

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