Code maintenance is an important aspect of application development, one that is often ignored in favour of a faster time-to-market. For some applications, this may not pose a significant problem, since the life span of those applications is short or the application is deployed and never touched again. However, embedded systems applications may have life spans that are measured in decades, which means some early mistakes can result in significant costs later.

This two-day course will be most valuable to medical device software engineers, engineering managers, scientists, and quality engineers (particularly in product development). This course will also be beneficial to quality assurance and regulatory affairs personnel who are new to the industry or their current position and do not have an in-depth knowledge of Medical Device Software requirements.
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CDC Software, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation and a provider of industry-specific enterprise software applications and business services, announced today that Hong Kong Maxim's Group, the largest food and beverage and catering company in Hong Kong, has reported better visibility for decision making and profitability, significant reduction in waste, improved costing analysis and a more controlled, centralized recipe management system since the implementation of CDC Software's Ross Enterprise Applications at its entire plant network.

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The winds of change are blowing through collaborative software, and they're blowing pretty hard. Here at the Office 2.0 conference, Adobe Systems and Joblogs previewed their approaches, which are strikingly similar. They both offer real time collaboration. Both use mash-ups and provide ease of use well beyond today's collaborative systems, which Joblogs founder Steve Ireland described as "workspace 1.0."

As of today Onepoint Software, one of the leading suppliers for enterprise project & portfolio management (PPM) software in Europe, is offering a project management solution especially designed for small teams: the Onepoint Project 8 Group Edition. The new edition is exclusively available in the Onepoint online store. The web-based tool is particularly convenient for teams working from different locations that need to stay up-to-date on project-relevant information at all times.

The software, which stands for the Method123 Project Management Methodology allows project managers to implement projects in a more structured fashion. It helps them to deliver projects in the same repeatable fashion, as opposed to approaching every project differently. By using the same formula for success, they will complete tasks faster than before and they can implement lessons learned from past projects, much more easily.
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Mark Dalgarno of Cambridge-based software consultancy Software Acumen has been invited by the organisers of this year's Embedded Systems Show (ESS) to put together a conference stream on Code Generation and related tools and technologies at the associated Conference on Embedded Systems Development.

There’s no such thing as a free software lunch is there? No I’m not talking about freeware or even shareware, but quality. We’re told in every other walk of life that we are what we eat and you get what you pay for – so why shouldn’t we use the same mindset when we consider software development, implementation and usage? You don’t have to Google too far with terms like “software quality” or even “software quality management” to find a list of vendors lining up to help you analyse your code and produce a less error prone final product.

With the recent stir caused by Iran's doctored "fourth" missile photograph, journalists should be hyperaware that no longer is seeing believing.