software developers

2008 in review: Mac developers who made news

ITworld staff — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:45:50 -0500

Thanks to its size and its prominence in the Mac universe, Apple tends to dominate the discussion when it comes to chronicling the major news events hitting the platform in the past year. That’s understandable, but it doesn’t paint a full picture of the Mac market, which also features plenty of third-party developers who made headlines of their own in 2008. Here are some of the Mac developers who stood out from the crowd over the past 12 months.

Eight reasons CIOs think developers are clueless

ITworld staff — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:23:39 -0400

What CIOs and IT leaders wish programmers knew about the bigger-picture view of their organizations.

Why SaaS could make your IT skills irrelevant

ITworld staff — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:04:51 -0400

Tom Clement has reinvented his career before. In 1984, he realized working in technology would suit him better than his job as a litigator in Texas. "I came home one day from work, and I was used to being really tense," he says. "But that day, my secretary's recorder had broke. I'd taken it apart, put it back together, and somehow, it worked. I was whistling and in a good mood because of it, and my girlfriend heard me and said,'Tom, maybe you were made for a different line of work.'"