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Web Relational Blocks Software, Personal Edition (WebRB-PE), from IBM alphaWorks, is a browser-based visual editor and run-time environment that enables developers to visually assemble Web applications without adding any imperative code.

Thompson reviews several freely available documents that can help with managing IT security.

The Linux distribution attempts to regain traction after canceling its last release.

OpenCalais and Yahoo!'s SearchMonkey both focus on document metadata. OpenCalais is a new toolkit that allows you to incorporate semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application. Yahoo!'s SearchMonkey API allows you to connect data services from around the world and integrate them into the Yahoo! search engine.

Effective use of the Visual C++ debugger is one of the easiest ways to increase developer productivity. Program database (PDB) files are one of the key elements in effectively debugging an application, and it is easy to set up Visual Studio to use debug symbols for binary files produced by other developers, including those at Microsoft.

Do you want to build your Web sites faster and cheaper, but still leverage industrial-strength technology? You can do just that using Grails and Apache Geronimo. In this article, you will see how easy Grails can make Web development and how easy Geronimo...

Namespaces are ideal for organising your classes and structures. As software increases in size, the probability of namespace and class names colliding and causing ambiguity problems increases. The namespace alias qualifier decreases this possibility.