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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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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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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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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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Zeichick’s Take: Remembering John McCarthy
By Alan Zeichick
A reader shares his own perspective on the most important contributions of the legendary creator of AI and LISP
1/6/2012 10:05:00 AM
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Analyst Watch: The end of mobile and the future of client-side development
By Al Hilwa
Microsoft's embrace of the tablet has already started the shift to the client-side
1/3/2012 8:30:00 AM
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Industry Watch: Bits from my reporter's notebook
By David Rubinstein
Stories overlooked from this past year: Breakthroughs in automation, and the efficiency of software installers
1/3/2012 8:30:00 AM
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Code Watch: The myth of 10X superprogrammers
By Larry O'Brien
It's more important to avoid hiring poor programmers than it is to search for the overrated superstar programmer
1/3/2012 8:30:00 AM
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Zeichick’s Take: Securing the data
By Alan Zeichick
Security can't account for every last threat or vulnerability, but programmers should still strive for maximum protection
12/19/2011 1:30:00 PM
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Analyst Watch: Water-Scrum-fall is the reality of agile
By Dave West
Agile practices are melding a bit with more traditional processes, so here is what you need to know to get by
12/15/2011 8:30:00 AM
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Code Watch: Three building blocks for parallel systems
By Larry O'Brien
Data-parallel loops, Actors and Futures give developers measures to getting past concurrency problems
12/15/2011 8:30:00 AM
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Industry Watch: Behind the APM and DevOps buzzwords
By David Rubinstein
Interviews with Compuware's John Van Siclen and UrbanCode's Eric Minick help figure out what these terms mean
12/15/2011 8:30:00 AM
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Zeichick’s Take: Introducing AnDevCon III, May 2012
By Alan Zeichick
Scheduling the next Android Developer Conference turned into an odyssey
12/12/2011 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Why is video conferencing so hard?
By Alan Zeichick
Problems with audio, service-sharing and multi-party conferencing plague this method of communication
12/2/2011 2:45:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Was Apple right about Flash?
By Alan Zeichick
The company picked HTML5 over Adobe's technology; time has proven it to be the right decision
11/28/2011 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick's Take: The latest from SD Times World Headquarters
By Alan Zeichick
SD Times has new bloggers, upcoming shows, and a new section to the website
11/18/2011 2:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: On slide rules and smartphones
By Alan Zeichick
Thinking about the old contraptions gave Alan an idea for a smartphone app
11/14/2011 1:30:00 PM
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Code Watch: Here comes functional programming
By Larry O'Brien
C#'s popularity means functional programming is here to stay and poised to overcome its roadblocks
11/11/2011 8:30:00 AM
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Analyst Watch: Why Google’s Obama gambit will fail
By Rob Enderle
What could Eric Schmidt get from President Obama is he supports his jobs bill?
11/11/2011 8:30:00 AM
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Zeichick’s Take: Google searches and quantitative methods
By Alan Zeichick
Alan stumbles upon a study that lays out a solid strategy for educating developers and testers
11/4/2011 4:00:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Measure twice, scoop once
By Alan Zeichick
Measuring progress is important, because how do you know what to fix if you don't know how you're doing?
10/21/2011 3:00:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: What, exactly, is Android?
By Alan Zeichick
After attending Android Open, Alan asks how exactly Google envisions its mobile OS
10/14/2011 4:30:00 PM
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Code Watch: At the function junction, have you a compunction?
By Larry O'Brien
Now that the manycore era is here, it’s time for developers to reconsider the point of functions and OOP
10/11/2011 1:30:00 PM
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Industry Watch: Microsoft's Windows 8 mysteries
By David Rubinstein
A lot was revealed at BUILD, but a lot of questions were also left behind
10/11/2011 1:30:00 PM
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Analyst Watch: Reshape your sourcing strategy
By Diego Lo Giudice
There are two steps to ensuring your developers are working on projects that best help the company's bottom line
10/11/2011 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: The passing of Steve Jobs
By Alan Zeichick
Steve Jobs was a world leader and innovator, so let's remember him for what he did for his friends, family and beyond
10/6/2011 2:15:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: The mobile world is taking over the desktop—or is it?
By Alan Zeichick
Do we really want mobile features on desktop environments? There's room to consider this question
10/3/2011 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: With Windows 8, Microsoft may have its mojo back
By Alan Zeichick
Alan likes what he saw in Windows 8, particularly its look-and-feel and the touch-screen capabilities
9/16/2011 2:30:00 PM
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Analyst Watch: HTML5 is not quite ready for primetime
By Al Hilwa
While the language is gaining steam now, it lacks the features and standards needed to make it competitive on mobile devices
9/15/2011 8:30:00 AM
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Industry Watch: Going agile isn't so agile
By David Rubinstein
Tamara Sulaiman Runyon has developed a framework for helping organizations steadily adopt agile practices
9/15/2011 8:30:00 AM
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Code Watch: The conference calls
By Larry O'Brien
Conferences should be about more than just skill improvement: They should speak to the developer's soul
9/15/2011 8:30:00 AM
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Zeichick’s Take: BetaCity: Windows Phone, Android, iOS and the shape of the mobile landscape
By Alan Zeichick
Are these three companies locked in a race? Or are they guaranteed a spot in the market for the forseeable future?
9/12/2011 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Apple, and computing, after Jobs
By Alan Zeichick
The mission for Jobs' successor now is to make the company his own, not endlessly second-guess what to do going forward
8/25/2011 12:50:00 PM
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Zeichick's Take: Google to buy Motorola Mobility – it may be a patent play
By Alan Zeichick
Google might be calculating that Android will be strengthened by buying Motorola Mobility’s patent portfolio.
8/15/2011 11:59:00 AM
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Stop hard-coding business rules
By David Rubinstein
Giving more power to "business developers" can streamline production, though it has its drawbacks
8/15/2011 8:30:00 AM
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