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Andrew Binstock

Andrew Binstock is the principal analyst at Pacific Data Works LLC in Silicon Valley, where he performs market and product analysis and writes white papers for private clients. He also is a senior contributing editor for InfoWorld, where he specializes in reviews of software-development tools and enterprise infrastructure. In addition, he writes about green IT technology for GreenerComputing.com.

Earlier, Andrew was in charge of global technology forecasts at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Before that, he was an Editorial Director at Miller Freeman, where he was responsible for Unix Review, the C Users Journal, and SysAdmin magazines. He first started writing about technology in the C Gazette, a code-intensive programming quarterly that he founded in 1986.

Andrew began his career as a software developer and contributes regularly to the open-source Platypus project (link to http://platypus.pz.org), a page-layout and typesetting tool for document generation. He has written or co-authored three books, including “Practical Algorithms for Programmers” which went through 14 printings. His two other books were published by Intel Press. His blog is at http://binstock.blogspot.com.

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Integration Watch: The end for Perl? The latest Perl release is still years away, meaning that the language has languished. While newer languages like Python continually improve themselves, the archaic syntax and other problems of Perl could permanently damage its credibility. 1/15/2009 11:17:00 AM	Integration Watch: Better code through reading Coders looking to expand their skills can try reading codebases and the work of other programmers 9/15/2009 1:30:00 PM
Integration Watch: Oracle, IBM, and Google… and Java Fear over Oracle's control over Java is unfounded; its revamps to Java will improve the platform 11/1/2010 8:30:00 AM	Integration Watch: PHP debuts, Delphi returns, and C++ tapers off While C++ languishes, Embarcadero is making remarkable progress with Delphi 9/15/2010 8:30:00 AM
Integration Watch: Gimme better tools, please Integration tools are technically better than they were decades ago, but they still lack some basically critical things 8/15/2010 8:30:00 AM	Integration Watch: Fusing a coherent Oracle The Oracle purchase of BEA gave Oracle the tools it needed to create a very strong stack; even IBM cannot compete with it except in a few categories. Can Oracle use this to take market share away from IBM? 3/15/2009 8:30:00 AM
Integration Watch: The myth of open-source forking Forking is talked about a lot, but in truth there are rarely enough resources and open-source developers to make them work 10/1/2010 8:30:00 AM	Integration Watch: VMware Workstation v. 7 impresses The latest version comes with several tools to aid developers, including multicore support and activity recording 4/1/2010 8:30:00 AM
Integration Watch: Between Java and Ruby Not much is happening in the land of Java, but Ruby is getting more traction with JRuby 10/15/2010 8:30:00 AM	Integration Watch: The quickly changing market for continuous integration Continuous integration is gaining more acceptance, but as a consequence it means that some platforms will be the focus... 6/9/2009 12:30:00 PM
Integration Watch: Java EE: The dead man walking The drive toward small, user-made solutions will push Java's future away from the cumbersome Java EE 1/19/2011 9:50:00 AM	Integration Watch: A new twist on threads The key to raising the efficiency of multiprocessors is to shrink the overall workload by raising the number of threads over the number of pipelines. Intel's Larrabee GPU is making great strides in making this technique the norm for multiprocessors. 11/15/2008 9:00:00 AM
What a Sun-IBM merger could mean for Java If IBM were to go through with a rumored acquisition of Sun, SD Times columnist Andrew Binstock speculates on the future of Java in the enterprise and in open source under the auspices of IBM. 3/23/2009 2:13:00 PM	Integration Watch: The zealots of agile Agile proponents have taken a messianic view of their programming method, but it is by no means exceptionally better than the traditional method. Fans of agile should recognize criticisms of it. 3/1/2009 8:00:00 AM
Integration Watch: Driving development with functional tests Andrew has a suggestion for what kind of test to do for test-driven development: functional tests 1/1/2010 8:30:00 AM	Integration Watch: Using metrics effectively Andrew Binstock goes over the best metrics for application life-cycle management 3/1/2010 8:30:00 AM
The Design of Design Andrew Binstock sits down with Fred Brooks to discuss the issues facing software design teams today 7/9/2010 8:30:00 AM	The 10 biggest events of the past 10 years Andrew Binstock lays down what he sees as the 10 events from the past decade that changed computing as we know it 2/15/2010 8:30:00 AM
Integration Watch: Continuous testing cometh One of the promises of continuous testing is that it can speed up software development by providing constant feedback that shortens the amount of time between changes. Developers should consider implementing this strategy. 4/15/2009 8:00:00 AM	Integration Watch: The intractability of parallel programming Not much progress has been made in the field of parallel programming. What can be done to advance it? 9/1/2010 8:30:00 AM