Software Development

Magazine articles on computer programming techniques and trends.

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Wired September 2003 Martha Baer	The New X-Men The Mountain Dew-fueled all-nighter is history. Today's supercoders work 40 hours a week. And two to a computer. It's called extreme programming - and it's revolutionizing the software world.
JavaWorld August 15, 2003 Ryan P. Ripley	Extreme programming: Process vs. culture A team that embraces the values of XP -- communication, simplicity, feedback, and courage -- reduces the risk in the transition to XP. By using tools such as retrospectives and study groups, you can lesson the XP learning curve, and begin to work and act together.
Linux Journal September 1, 2003 Dave Aitel	A Beginner's Guide to Using pyGTK and Glade pyGTK and Glade allow anyone to create functional GUIs quickly and easily.
HBS Working Knowledge July 7, 2003 Mallory Stark	The Organizational Model for Open Source A surprising entity has emerged to protect the interests of open source software developers: the non-profit foundation. Harvard professor Siobhan O'Mahony discusses this emerging organizational model.
CIO April 15, 2003 Dylan Tweney	Build It Free Open-source development tools offer low-cost, high-quality options.
CIO March 15, 2003 Christopher Koch	Making Open Source Pay -- A Developer's Dilemma Even the companies that have managed to successfully sell themselves as service and support providers for open source have struggled to find a winning business model.
Wired February 2003 Martha Baer	Immortal Code The CEO goes to trial. The programmers hit the street. And yet sometimes a piece of code is so elegant, so evolved, that it outlasts everything else. Here is the story of NaturallySpeaking, the world's first continuous-speech dictation software, and the concept of "abandonware."
CIO January 15, 2003 John Edwards	Weaving a Virtual World Weaves is a framework that translates codes from any programming language into code modules to create a highly accurate design, development and analysis environment.
CIO January 1, 2003 Meridith Levinson	Jack, Be Quick For agile programming to gain ground and credibility in 2003, the cheers have to come from IT executives who've had success with it in their organization. The cheers are starting to come.
JavaWorld October 2002	Maven ties together tools for better code management Maven is an open source build tool from the Apache Jakarta Project that manages your code at the project level. Maven creates effective documentation by integrating many third-party open source code analysis tools into a coherent generated Website.
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