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In the book "Great Software Debates", Alan M. Davis states in the chapter "Requirements", subchapter "The Missing Piece of Software Development"


Ccache

ccache is a software development tool that caches the output of C/C++ compilation so that the next time, the same compilation can be avoided and the results can be taken from the cache.

Code Complete

Code Complete is a software development book, written by Steve McConnell and published in 1993 by Microsoft Press, urging developers to get past code and fix programming and the "big design up front" waterfall model.

Code Reading

Code Reading (ISBN 0-201-79940-5) is a 2003 software development book written by Diomidis Spinellis.

Code Rebel

Code Rebel, LLC is an American software development company founded by Arben Kryeziu in 2006 and based in Kahului, Hawaii, United States.

Glenn Wichman

Glenn R. Wichman (born in 1960 in Bay City, Michigan) is a software developer who is best known as one of the original authors of the computer game Rogue, along with Michael Toy, Ken Arnold and Jon Lane.

Homesteading the Noosphere

"Homesteading the Noosphere" (abbreviated HtN) is an essay written by Eric S. Raymond about the social workings of open-source software development.

Homotopy type theory

Unusually for a mathematics text, it was developed collaboratively and in the open on GitHub, is released under a Creative Commons license that allows people to fork their own version of the book, and is both purchasable in print and downloadable free of charge.

Iris Associates

Iris Associates was a software development company founded in Littleton, Massachusetts on December 7, 1984 by Ray Ozzie to build the software ultimately known as Lotus Notes.

Jörg Schilling

Following cdrecord's relicensing to the CDDL, the suite was removed from Debian (and subsequently several other major GNU/Linux distributions) and replaced with a fork called cdrkit.

Korea Computer Centre Sinhung Company

Korea Computer Centre Sinhung Company is a software development group headquartered in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Pragma Systems

The software development industry in Austin, Texas welcomed Pragma Systems and in a short period of time Pragma Systems was developing networking software for companies like IBM, Tivoli, and Tandem.

Walter F. Tichy

To the larger software development community he is mostly known as the initial developer of the RCS revision control system.


see also

Actioneer, Inc.

Actioneer is a software development company founded in San Francisco by David Allen, Russell Bishop and Tom Hagan with an initial investment of $12M in 1994 that developed a software product with Russell Bishop and David Allen originally for use with the MAP seminar offered by Productivity Development Group and later for GTD.

Arfa Karim

S. Somasegar, the vice president of the Software Development Division, wrote about her in his blog.

Brian Witlin

He co-founded a custom software development company called Lever Works with Keith Schacht and Zach Kaplan.

Buka Entertainment

Buka Entertainment (Russian: Бука) is a Russian software development and distribution company founded in 1993 in Moscow with an additional six branch offices across Russia, located in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, Samara and Nizhniy Novgorod.

Code Reading

The book inaugurated Addison-Wesley's Effective Software Development Series, edited by Scott Meyers,

Coin3D

Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies also develops software development libraries designed to integrate Coin3D with GUI development environments.

Continuous integration

Microsoft Team Foundation Server: proprietary software development collaboration platform with continuous integration server and source code repository.

Data visualization

Brian Willison has demonstrated that data visualization has also been linked to enhancing agile software development and customer engagement.

Dave Godfrey

In 1979 he edited a book on the subject with Douglas Parkhill, Gutenberg two, on the social and political meaning of computer technology, and he wrote The Telidon Book with Ernest Chang, about electronic publishing and video text, and founded a software development company called Softwords, working in that field.

Devgems Data Modeler

It is used by data modelers, database administrators and software developers to create and manage database models and integrate with existing software development tools like Embarcadero Delphi.

Doc Searls

At the Berkman Center for Internet & Society he leads ProjectVRM, which guides independent software development communities working on Vendor Relationship Management (VRM).

Festi

Festi is created with use of object-oriented technology of software development that strongly complicates researches by a method of the reverse engineering and does a bot easily ported for other operating systems.

Frantic Films

Superman Returns (2006) – visual effects, software development

Fundageek

Harwin is a graduate of CSUN with BS in Accounting/Law and co-founder of the software development company Catalyst Development Corporation.

Gaurav Dhillon

Gaurav Dhillon is the Chairman and CEO of SnapLogic, an enterprise application and data integration software development company that helps organizations connect business applications and Web services.

Höhere Berufsfachschule für Wirtschaftsinformatik

The subject software development uses tools of process modelling such as ARIS and tools of project management such as MS Project.

Ideum

These multitouch displays support Ideum's proprietary software development framework, GestureWorks, the Open Exhibits SDK which allows for the development of multitouch multiuser applications in ActionScript, and GestureWorks Gameplay, their Windows 8 utility for making PC games touch-enabled.

Infopulse Ukraine

According to the organization's website as of 2012, Infopulse has approximately 850 staff, delivering software development and testing, development of mobile applications and software, systems implementation and integration, IT infrastructure management and consulting services.

Integrated project

Integrated Project Support Environment, a set of management and technical tools to support software development

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

It is close to HITEC City (a centre housing software development centres of companies like Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, Motorola, Infosys and GE Capital) and the presence of IT majors from across the globe right on the campus through their schools and research centers.

IsaacRobot

Isaac, besides, offers many solutions oriented to automation industry, embedded computer science, and Real Time software development.

Jay Salkini

Following his graduation from FAU with his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering, he took a position at Siemens working on software development for telecommunications switching systems.

John Hinsdale

In 1995, Hinsdale returned the full thrust of his energies back to software development, founding the consultancy Alma Mater Software, Inc. in New York City, later moving to Tarrytown, New York and from there to Princeton Junction, New Jersey.

Jorge Aramburo Siegert

Currently he is CEO and founder of nearshore software development company, Productora de Software (PSL).

Media Vision

Ken Nicholson, who later became Director of Game Software Development.

Microsoft Developer Network

The Microsoft Developer Network was launched in June 1992 as a quarterly, CD-ROM-based compilation of technical articles, sample code, and software development kits, as well as a 16-page tabloid newspaper, the Microsoft Developer Network News, edited by Andrew Himes, who had previously been the founding editor of MacTech, the premiere Macintosh technology journal.

Network Inventory Advisor

The application was created by ClearApps LLC, software development company headquartered in Elk Grove, California.

Nigel Clifford

Before this he led Micro Focus International, a FTSE 250 provider of software development and testing tools.

Project Management Institute

# User Stories Applied:For Agile Software Development, Mike Cohn ISBN#0321205685

# Agile Software Development:The Cooperative Game – 2nd Edition Alistair Cockburn ISBN#0321482751

Project Orion

Project Orion, an initiative organized by the Eclipse Foundation to improve browser support for software development

RL78

The RL78 family is supported with a range of Hardware and software development tools including the GNU Compiler Collection and IAR Systems compilers with an integrated design environment called Eclipse Embedded Studio or e2studio, CMX, Micrium, Segger, and FreeRTOS real-time operating systems can be supported.

Standard Template Library

Although David Musser had developed and advocated some aspects of generic programming already by year 1971, it was limited to a rather specialized area of software development (computer algebra).

TechExcel

In the first year the Software Development Times 100 Awards List merged the categories of "concepts as continuous integration and delivery" and "agile development" into a single "life-cycle management" category, TechExcel was named one of the 20 best companies—alongside companies like IBM, Microsoft, and Mercurial.

The Adventures of Montu Miah

The Adventures of Montu Miah was created with the help of Poser and the software development company Smith Micro Software previously known as Curious labs.

The Foundry Visionmongers

The Foundry Visionmongers is a visual effects software development company with headquarters in London, and offices in Los Angeles and Mountain View, California.

TimeSys

Timesys is a privately owned company that helps software development teams build and maintain a custom Linux platform for a wide variety of embedded processors from semiconductor manufacturers such as Atmel, Freescale, Intel, Texas Instruments, and Xilinx.

UpStage

In 2006, the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the Auckland University of Technology began a relationship with the UpStage project, which has seen teams of final year software development students work on UpStage as a real-world software development project.

Utah Valley

Novell and WordPerfect were instrumental in making the Utah Valley a focus for software development.

Videotext

Living Videotext, a software development company founded by Dave Winer in 1983

Wrightsoft

Wrightsoft is a software development firm for the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) community.

Xpert-Timer

Xpert-Design Software is a software development company based in Stadtbergen, Germany.

Zachman Framework

How the Model-driven architecture (MDA) models used in software development map to the Zachman Framework.

Zeobit

In 2006 Slava Kolomiychuk attended Kiev Polytechnic Institute and got a strong interest in software development and web applications.

ZOOMQ3D

Each of these models has been developed using object-oriented techniques, a programming approach commonly applied in commercial software development but only relatively recently adopted in numerical modelling for scientific analysis.