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Zeichick’s Take: Crossing the dreaded Chasm of Chaos
By Alan Zeichick
When learning a new technique or technology, a drop-off in performance is to be expected, but it's worth it in the end
3/15/2010 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick's Take: Classifying software changes
By Alan Zeichick
Kent Beck's talk at ESDC illuminated different ways to characterize software changes
3/8/2010 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Thinking about enterprise software
By Alan Zeichick
As ESDC kicks off, Alan talks about his favorite aspects of conferences, and why you should be excited about them
3/1/2010 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick's Take: Happy Birthday!
By Alan Zeichick
SD Times is still here, 10 years later, and has plans on staying at least another 10 years!
2/22/2010 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Facebook FAIL and the helplessness of using SaaS platforms
By Alan Zeichick
Facebook's recent updates exemplify how SaaS platforms can hold their users hostage with their forced changes
2/12/2010 3:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Google fights the good fight against old browsers
By Alan Zeichick
By phasing out non-standards-compliant browsers, Google is pushing Web technology forward
2/8/2010 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: It’s time to nominate the 2010 SD Times 100
By Alan Zeichick
It's time for readers to send in their suggestions for inclusion on our top 100 leaders of 2010
1/29/2010 12:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: The resiliency of old computers
By Alan Zeichick
Alan looks at four old computers of his that are not only still kicking, they can also handle some of today's programs
1/25/2010 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick's Take: Come help us put the ‘SD’ in ESDC
By Alan Zeichick
ESDC is going to pick up where SD West, the venerable professional software developer show, left off
1/15/2010 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: New Year's resolutions
By Alan Zeichick
Alan runs down a list of things that software developers should resolve to do this year
1/4/2010 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: A decade of change since Y2K
By Alan Zeichick
Alan takes a look back at what we have seen come down the pipe since the year 2000...
12/28/2009 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: The newest iPhone app developer: Microsoft
By Alan Zeichick
Apple and Microsoft make strange bedfellows, illustrating the latest turnaround in allegiances in the software world
12/21/2009 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Artificial Nostalgia
By Alan Zeichick
Many technologies and practices developed to create AI have found their way into the world of software development
12/14/2009 1:30:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: With Touch, we get a new feel for Windows
By Alan Zeichick
Microsoft's pushing of its touch technology is a welcome project from the software giant
12/1/2009 4:00:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Finally, the Itanium is profitable!
By Alan Zeichick
Alan takes a look back at the long, unfortunate tale of Intel/Hewlett-Packard's Itanium line of processors
11/24/2009 3:00:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Windows Azure and zero-day flaws
By Alan Zeichick
Given Microsoft's track record with bugs and security flaws in its major releases, will Azure face similar problems?
11/17/2009 5:00:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Intel pays off AMD
By Alan Zeichick
AMD took a settlement from Intel to drop its lawsuit, calling into question AMD's integrity in fighting monopolies
11/16/2009 3:00:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Backdoors—at nanometer scales
By Alan Zeichick
Security defects built into hardware can pose just as much of a threat to us as software defects
10/29/2009 4:00:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Can you trust the integrity of your data?
By Alan Zeichick
A new type of electrical meter raises questions on how much control you have over the data in your own home
10/22/2009 3:15:00 PM
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Zeichick’s Take: Thinking in polynomial time
By Alan Zeichick
What is the nature of polynomial time and non-polynomial time? And what would happen if we found out that P = NP?
10/19/2009 1:30:00 PM
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