The typical application for editing an XML document by most people is either with the default Notepad or Wordpad applications that comes with Windows. While these editors are sufficient for getting the job done, they are not the best way for working with large files or deeply nested XML trees.

Microsoft’s XML Notepad 2007 addresses many [...]

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After years of absense, Borland has re-released their famous Turbo compilers. They were the greatest programming tools of their day. The best selling languages were Turbo C++ and Turbo Pascal. They also created Turbo Assembler which was the easiest tool for writing assembly language for the PC. For a while, there was Turbo Basic which [...]

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Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on a microprocessor will double every 24 months. Since Gordon E. Moore made this observation in 1965, it has proven itself to be fairly accurate. I should note that many people state the doubling time is 18 months, but Moore is being misquoted and has always said [...]

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Business Week made a prediction of the paperless office in 1975. This term refers to automation making paper redundant for routine office tasks. In the early days of the personal computing industry, this was used as a strong selling point. In reality, computers have not reduced or eliminated paper but instead have made larger stacks [...]

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The Internet is getting busier and busier. According to Deloitte & Touche, they predict that this year will have greater traffic on the Internet than its capacity to serve it. Their reason for them stating this is that the number of Internet users have increased enormously along with an increase in streaming video (which is [...]

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