Best Practices During Software Project Construction?

Along the lines of my recent poll on practices during project initialization, here's a poll on some common practices used during software development construction. Which of these have you found to be important for success? What have I missed?

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Developer Interest in the iPhone, Android, and Symbian

ORA would have us believe that developer interest in the iPhone lags behind developer interest in Android or Symbian. I am skeptical

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(Via O'Reilly Radar.)

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Cassette of Apple I BASIC becomes MP3 becomes CoreDump

What's especially amusing about recovery of Apple I's BASIC is that it was done via an MP3 file, which, as you know, is a lossy compression scheme.

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)

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Best practices during software project initiation?

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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Testing MarsEdit from the Mac

This is from MarsEdit. Do I have to add markup tags manually?

It appears that I have to add markup manually

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Recent Articles

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:

Drag .Net -- Home Security Automation

\<a href="http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx%3fArticleID%3d32144"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ozzie's 'Internet Tidal Wave' Leaves A …

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Fast Ranking Algorithm: Astonishing Paper by Raykar, Duraiswami, and Krishnapuram

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 …

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Embarcadero Acquires CodeGear (nee Borland Languages)

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 …

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Incompetent American Programmers

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 …

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