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Industry Watch: The added dimension to SOA
By David Rubinstein
Progress’ Hub Vandervoort explains that SOA isn’t real time if the information it provides cannot be immediately acted upon
5/14/2012 8:30:00 AM
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Zeichick’s Take: Fight back against the ugly ‘brogrammer’ trend
By Alan Zeichick
Workplaces must squelch attitudes and behaviors that alienate female workers
5/11/2012 3:00:00 PM
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Analyst Watch: Personal technology sucks—A rant
By Rob Enderle
Too many devices don’t work well together, becoming more of a burden than a boon for consumers
5/11/2012 8:30:00 AM
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Zeichick’s Take: The biggest influencers in your life
By Alan Zeichick
It's time to vote for the SD Times 100 for this year, and for the past decade of influencers
5/7/2012 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Google I/O and Apple WWDC are hot, Univ. of Florida is not
By Alan Zeichick
Why is the University of Florida shuttering its computer science program when mobile developers are in greater demand?
4/25/2012 1:25:00 PM
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The Trouble with Gerrold: Data Obsolescence: The Next Generation
By David Gerrold
How will we, as a society, deal with deprecated file formats and storage media and the data that they contain?
4/24/2012 3:00:00 PM
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Analyst Watch: Java: Two years after Oracle
By Al Hilwa
A lot of Java developers were worried about the company’s plans, but so far the language is thriving
4/23/2012 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Google? Apple? SCO? Microsoft? Who are the top influencers?
By Alan Zeichick
It's your chance to vote for the most influential software companies, people, even concepts of the past 10 years
4/18/2012 10:50:00 AM
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Industry Watch: Testing culture undergoes dramatic shift
By David Rubinstein
Changes in testing, particularly toward increasing automation, are making it more useful to organizations
4/17/2012 10:45:00 AM
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Code Watch: Functional programming's smugness problem
By Larry O'Brien
Functional programming techniques are held back by those who practice them being not nice to other people
4/16/2012 2:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: High-PPI displays, coming to a desktop near you
By Alan Zeichick
Market trends indicate that desktops and laptops will be seeing higher pixels-per-inch screens by 2013
4/13/2012 1:30:00 PM
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The Trouble with Gerrold: Artificial stupidity
By David Gerrold
Understanding where intelligence comes from and how we define it reveals how difficult the quest for sentient machines is
4/6/2012 11:45:00 AM
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Zeichick’s Take: Abject failure: Lessons from 25 years of IBM’s OS/2
By Alan Zeichick
OS/2 was supposed to be the future, but neglect from IBM and Microsoft doomed it
4/3/2012 3:15:00 PM
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The Trouble with Gerrold: A loaded magazine
By David Gerrold
The Internet has taken over where magazines used to dwell. Is this a disaster for David, the info-holic?
4/2/2012 11:30:00 AM
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Zeichick’s Take: With software security, we’re outgunned
By Alan Zeichick
Hackers are one step ahead of security efforts, and are better organized than the businesses they target
3/30/2012 1:10:00 PM
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Industry Watch: Is your social strategy working?
By David Rubinstein
Successful community builder Mark Miller devises model for assessing success of social networking
3/27/2012 12:00:00 PM
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Industry Watch: Cloud has more value in smaller shops
By David Rubinstein
The cloud’s redundancy and access to resources make it more beneficial to small businesses than previously thought
3/23/2012 2:15:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Android and Linux do the reverse-fork maneuver
By Alan Zeichick
After some time apart, Android and Linux are together again, which is good for both
3/21/2012 12:15:00 PM
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Code Watch: Cohesion: The forgotten virtue
By Larry O'Brien
Modern programming has lost touch with what the architectural vision needed to create high-quality software
3/20/2012 8:30:00 AM
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The Trouble with Gerrold: Wheaton’s Law
By David Gerrold
David has some modifications to Wil’s law that help drive home how much it works!
3/19/2012 2:00:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: In the iPad 3 era, pay attention to the pixels-per-inch
By Alan Zeichick
Screens are getting denser, which means your Web developers must grapple with this coming issue
3/16/2012 11:30:00 AM
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Analyst Watch: How to adapt your skills and staffing for agile and lean
By Phil Murphy
There are many lessons software developers can learn from the automotive industry
3/16/2012 10:00:00 AM
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The Trouble with Gerrold: Predictions, predictions, predictions
By David Gerrold
David Gerrold sees a future rich in technology, and also in need of skilled programmers
3/12/2012 11:00:00 AM
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Zeichick’s Take: SQL Server 2012 is not the new iPad
By Alan Zeichick
But like the iPad 3, you should only upgrade to the latest SQL Server right away if you really need to
3/8/2012 2:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: The secret joy and danger of software updates
By Alan Zeichick
Be careful how you set up software updates for your products, as not everyone may want to install them
3/5/2012 12:00:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Why my MacBook Air is turning into a giant iPad
By Alan Zeichick
Recent changes in OS X 10.8 signal a future where users have less control over what apps are allowed on their devices
2/24/2012 1:00:00 PM
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Industry Watch: Oversaturation of options
By David Rubinstein
Microsoft is accommodating many development style and languages in Visual Studio 11, perhaps too many
2/24/2012 10:25:00 AM
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Zeichick’s Take: Java, Java everywhere
By Alan Zeichick
The results are in from SD Times' Java & SOA Study, and it shows that out-of-date systems are still being widely used
2/15/2012 12:00:00 PM
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Analyst Watch: Adobe beyond Flash
By Michael Azoff
Flash will still receive some support from Adobe; IBM’s Worklight purchase sheds light on its mobile plans
2/14/2012 9:00:00 AM
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Code Watch: Transactional memory rolls forward
By Larry O'Brien
Software transactional memory works for databases, but can it work in the world of parallel programming?
2/13/2012 10:45:00 AM
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Zeichick’s Take: Radio moves from analog waveforms to digital packets
By Alan Zeichick
Streaming radio highlights the need for streaming applications to be designed to take up as little bandwidth as possible
2/10/2012 4:15:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Looking for the best of the best of the best
By Alan Zeichick
It's time once again for readers to send in nominees for the SD Times 100
2/3/2012 4:05:00 PM
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The Trouble with Gerrold: Clickability
By David Gerrold
Programmers need to keep in mind that websites need to be accessible in as few clicks as possible
2/1/2012 11:00:00 AM
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Code Watch: Strategies for mobile enterprise development
By Larry O'Brien
When stepping into the mobile world, first make your projects Web-based
1/30/2012 11:00:00 AM
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Analyst Watch: The death of tablets: the AMD opportunity
By Rob Enderle
AMD's ability to skate the line between netbooks and tablets puts it in a unique position to take advantage of both
1/30/2012 11:00:00 AM
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Industry Watch: RIM needs to get back its mojo
By David Rubinstein
The company’s twin-CEOs are stepping down, but what can the new CEO do to regain its image as a must-have smartphone?
1/30/2012 11:00:00 AM
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Zeichick’s Take: Services change. Get used to it
By Alan Zeichick
Services like Facebook will undergo redesigns to generate more money, and there's nothing customers can really do about it
1/27/2012 11:00:00 AM
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Zeichick’s Take: Put away the forklift, I've got FORTRAN on my mind
By Alan Zeichick
Programming languages today are a good mix of updated legacy languages and new tools based on modern concepts
1/19/2012 4:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Fast cars! Fast phones! And a new developer conference!
By Alan Zeichick
The North American International Auto Show and the Consumer Electronics Show made headlines, but another show is coming...
1/13/2012 10:40:00 AM
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The Trouble with Gerrold: InYerFace
By David Gerrold
A brief history of the user interface shows what works and what doesn't, and developers have to pay heed to these lessons
1/6/2012 2:30:00 PM
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