Prevention actions (trainings, audits) and inspections (tests, validations, code reviews) are the crucial factors in achieving a high quality level for any software application simply because low investments in this area are leading to significant expenses in terms of corrective actions needed...

Despite the code is rarely self-explanatory, the imperative programming languages are the most commonly used in our days by the programmers all over the world and Java is definitely the lead language in popularity. This paper tries to conclude if there are any chances to use the most popular...

EVM (Earned Value Management) is a method that can be successfully used to measure the performance of a project from the cost and schedule points of view. Initially developed for the US government programs in the 60s, it later becomes an important feature of any modern project management...

This paper explores the possibilities of combining the PROLOG simplicity with the power of JAVA in order to create better user friendly software applications for the market.

The declarative programming by declarative languages is clearly the best option a programmer can have for a completely readable, flexible and extensible code. Today, the economics of programming is clearly focused on the declarative paradigm while most imperative languages are trying to become...

The Creative Commons licenses, also known as CC, allow the authors to retain the copyright over the works while granting some right to the others, like the permission to modify or to use the work for commercial purposes.

Programming paradigms, inspired by the Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shift theory, are related to the particular way of thinking when it is about the practice of programming.

When we discuss about copyright, we instinctively have in mind the all rights reserved expression speaking about the exclusive rights granted to the authors by the law. Today, in the context of social media, the copyright can be also used not to restrict but to grant some rights to the audience,...

The purpose of this article is to explain the way in which a software project (old, current or future) should be tailored in order to be ready for an external backup.

Cross Site Scripting (XSS) is the most common security vulnerability that can be found in web applications of today. Any web application that is generating an output based on the user’s input but without validating the content is virtually exposed to XSS. The user input validation by filtering...