I have created a short poll at Zoho on practices that can be done very early in a project's lifecycle, before a vision is really established. What do you think? What did I miss?

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It appears that I have to add markup manually

I've been busier than some metaphorical thing in some metaphorical place where things are really busy.

Here are some recent articles I've written:

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The July 08 (Vol. 30, #7) IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence has an incredible paper by Raykar, Duraiswami, and Krishnapuram. A Fast Algorithm for Learning a Ranking Function from Large-Scale Data Sets appears to be a game-changer for an incredibly important problem in machine learning. Basically, they …

CodeGear, the company semi-spun off from Borland's languages division, has been acquired by Embarcadero, the company best known for enterprise-y DB tools such as ER/studio.

The half-measure of announcing the division's sale and then holding on to it was always ugly and even though Embarcadero is probably not the …

In the Summer and Fall of 1999, at the peak of the dot-com boom, there was incredible competition for software developers. Starting pay for developers with no experience had already climbed to \\(60K and then, in the course of maybe 3 months, it went from \\)60K to \\(75K to \\)90K …

I'm trying to hire a couple developers. One guy sent a resume that looked great -- degree in CS, C++ experience, a year with Ruby in Rails. So I sent him a simple programming exercise. I sent him the testcases.

He shoots back an answer. I open a command-line, type ruby …

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I recently wrote an encomium to ResolverOne, the IronPython-based spreadsheet:

[T]heir use of pair programming and test-driven development has delivered high productivity; of the 140,000 lines of code, 110,000 are tests....ResolverOne has been in development for roughly two years, is written in a language without explicit …