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Dr. Adam Kolawa

Adam Kolawa is the co-founder and CEO of Parasoft, leading provider of solutions and services that deliver quality as a continuous process throughout the SDLC. In 1983, he came to the United States from Poland to pursue his PhD. In 1987, he and a group of fellow graduate students founded Parasoft to create value-added products that could significantly improve the software development process. Adam's years of experience with various software development processes has resulted in his unique insight into the high-tech industry and the uncanny ability to successfully identify technology trends. As a result, he has orchestrated the development of numerous successful commercial software products to meet growing industry needs to improve software quality - often before the trends have been widely accepted. Adam has been granted 10 patents for the technologies behind these innovative products.
Kolawa, co-author of Bulletproofing Web Applications (Hungry Minds 2001), has contributed to and written over 100 commentary pieces and technical articles for publications including The Wall Street Journal, Java Developer's Journal, SOA World Magazine, AJAXWorld Magazine; he has also authored numerous scientific papers on physics and parallel processing. His recent media engagements include CNN, CNBC, BBC, and NPR. Additionally he has presented on software quality, trends and development issues at various industry conferences. Kolawa holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology. In 2001, Kolawa was awarded the Los Angeles Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the software category.
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Building Security into
Software with Security
Policies & Static
Analysis By Dr. Adam Kolawa  The common approach to
securing applications is
to try to identify and
remove all of the
application's security
vulnerabilities at the
end of the development
process. However, this
bug-finding approach is
not only
resource-intensive, it's
largely ineffective. To
... Feb. 19, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 5,472 | SOA Best Practices - Four
Steps to Securing Your
Web Services By Dr. Adam Kolawa  Security has the inherent
nature of spanning many
different layers of a Web
Services system. Web
Services vulnerabilities
can be present in the
operating system, the
network, the database,
the Web server, the
application server, the
XML parser, the Web
Services im... Apr. 17, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 35,249 Replies: 2 | SOA & Web Services - Is
It Done Yet? By Dr. Adam Kolawa  It's difficult to
determine how much time
to spend reviewing and
testing your code before
checking it in to the
team's shared code base.
On the one hand, you want
to complete and check in
code as rapidly as
possible so you can meet
deadlines and move on to
develop... Apr. 17, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 15,602 Replies: 1 | OSS: A Tactical Plan for
Building Applications By Dr. Adam Kolawa  Open Source is the
current rave of the
software industry. It's
making great progress
because of Linux - an
operating system that
truly works. People are
all a-bustle about Open
Source and are beginning
to look for an Open
Source option appropriate
to all their app... May. 22, 2006 04:30 PM Reads: 12,151 Replies: 2 | What Issues to Look Out
For as You Move from Java
to Web Services By Dr. Adam Kolawa  The creation and
popularity of Web
Services are growing
rapidly in every
industry. With this
continued growth, more
and more programmers find
themselves writing code
that, even if it's not
currently packaged as a
Web Service, will
eventually be exposed as
one. Apr. 18, 2006 03:00 PM Reads: 22,024 Replies: 3 | Choosing the Best Testing
Tools to Increase Project
Productivity By Dr. Adam Kolawa  The primary mission of
information technology is
to improve business
processes and increase
profits. Companies are
constantly rethinking and
struggling with how to
use IT to a competitive
advantage, reduce IT
operating and maintenance
costs, and reduce the
total c... Dec. 27, 2005 03:15 PM Reads: 29,474 Replies: 1 | Parasoft's Dr Adam
Kolowa: "It's Time to
Prevent Poorly-Written
XML" By Dr. Adam Kolawa  Since its inception XML
has at times been seen as
the cure-all for every
problem related to Web
applications and
integration projects.
However, poorly written
XML can either slow down
an integration project,
or worse, cause the
integration project to
collapse. Oct. 23, 2005 05:00 PM Reads: 21,785 | Why Build Development
Tools for Linux? By Dr. Adam Kolawa I was introduced to Linux
in 1992, when the first
version was available. At
the time I was visiting
Poland and my company was
building an inventory
control system. One of
our partners had decided
to use Linux to run their
inventory system. What
led them to use this ... Sep. 27, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 18,719 | Saturday Essay: Why
Outsourcing is a
"Tremendous Opportunity"
for US Economy By Dr. Adam Kolawa 'When we hear about
short-term job losses
that result from
outsourcing to India and
China, we also need to
consider the long-term
benefits of these nations
developing into prime
markets for U.S.
exports,' says Dr. Adam
Kolawa, the co-founder
and CEO of Parasoft.
... Sep. 4, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 29,975 Replies: 9 | Bulletproof Web Services By Dr. Adam Kolawa Web services are gaining
industry-wide acceptance
and usage. They are
moving from
proof-of-concept
deployments to actual
usage in mission-critical
enterprise applications.
While Web services allow
businesses to connect to
partners and customers,
the same flexibili... Aug. 31, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 22,870 | Cleaning Up XML By Dr. Adam Kolawa Garbage in, garbage out -
it's an axiom that
applies to many aspects
of enterprise
development, but none
more so than building
reliable and robust Web
applications and
integration projects with
XML. Since its inception,
XML has been seen as the
cure-all for every ... Mar. 10, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 26,343 | Testing Web Services By Dr. Adam Kolawa As more enterprises move
toward an e-business
strategy, the
communication and
integration of disparate,
heterogeneous
applications and systems
is key. Businesses must
be able to securely
connect and communicate
with customers and
trading partners alike. Feb. 5, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 19,666 | Automated Error
Prevention for Linux By Dr. Adam Kolawa Most organizations that
use Linux as a business
operating system are
developing their own
applications for Linux -
perhaps in response to
the current scarcity of
packaged applications
available on Linux. With
so much internal
development for Linux, it
is critical ... Dec. 22, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 20,505 Replies: 1 | On Protecting U.S. IT
Jobs By Dr. Adam Kolawa As a closing thought,
let's consider our jobs
and how to protect them.
There is a lot of
instability in today's
software industry, and
the American sector is
losing its competitive
edge. Nov. 24, 2003 11:48 AM Reads: 24,060 | Automated Error
Prevention By Dr. Adam Kolawa Software errors cause not
only system functionality
problems, but also
delayed releases, budget
overruns, decreased
development team
productivity, and
blemished corporate
reputations. Errors are
especially serious when
they occur in code built
upon WebSphere, whic... Jul. 23, 2003 10:09 AM Reads: 19,408 | Reducing the 80/20 Rule
and Increasing Developer
Productivity By Dr. Adam Kolawa The 80/20 Rule is a
well-known rule of thumb
within the software
development community
that simply states that
developers spend 80% of
their time debugging
applications and 20%
writing new code. This
ratio, which would seem
to some outside the
software industry th... Apr. 15, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 16,330 |
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