developer.* - The Independent Magazine for Software Professionalsdeveloper.* (DeveloperDotStar.com) is an independent magazine and community for software development professionals. developer.* Magazine features high quality original articles, essays, interviews, and book reviews, published in a traditional magazine format (only without all the paper) with a focus on a wide variety of topics of interest to software developers and other software professionals. And don't miss developer.* Blogs..NET Exception Handling By Edward G. Nilges- February 15, 2006 This article presents a set of general error handling principles and illustrates them in action with a downloadable VB.NET project, including a demonstration program and a reusable .NET exception handling DLL.Click here for the full article.http://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/error_exception_handling.html Stunted Growth: Subsidies and Stagnation in the Software Tools Market By Steve Benz- February 6, 2006 On the face of it, there should be a great deal of money in the software tools business, but, surprisingly, the money really isnt there for small businesses. This article will show that the ultimate cause of the deficiency is the fact that most of the large development tools are subsidized by the sales of Operating Systems and hardware. These subsidies have the effect of diminishing the profit potential of any pure software development tool vendor and thus remove the incentive to create.Click...http://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/software_tools_stagnation.html |