Software Development
Development Stories
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Cyber Attacks on Adobe Jeopardize Customers and US AgenciesBad news hit Adobe Systems earlier this month. Chief security officer Brad Arkin writes that the San Jose-based software company suffered some serious cyber attacks on its network, resulting in “illegal access of customer information as well as source code for numerous Adobe products.” | 
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Remember: Your Goal Is to Solve Your Customers' ProblemsSteve Berczuk reminds us that while estimation, process, and technical skill are essential to delivering value to a customer in a cost-effective way, they are just means to your primary goal of solving problems. | 
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Helpful Tips for Good Branching and Merging in Product DevelopmentBranching and merging are necessary, but they can be minimized to reduce the overhead. In this story, Joe Farah shares several helpful branching and merging tips as well as his simple philosophy of creating a new branch when you need to support the old one. | 
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Yahoo! Ups Bug Bounties after T-Shirt GateJoining the ranks of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Mozilla, and others, Yahoo! will now offer payments or so-called bounties to developers and security researchers for finding security vulnerabilities in their software and applications. This move is not without some controversy. | 
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Augmented Reality Technology Begins to Eclipse Its Gimmicky PastFive years ago augmented reality wasn't on most of our minds, but lately it's in the news almost weekly. Why the sudden interest? It's likely because the technology is actually being used to improve our lives—not just clutter them. | 
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Microsoft Pays Hacking Expert $100,000 for Finding Security Flaw For finding security flaws in its software, Microsoft paid a hacking expert one hundred thousand dollars this week, one of the largest bounties ever awarded by a major company for white-hat work. Bug bounty programs are becoming more and more common as tech companies realize their cost value. |
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Capture the Magic of Pixar in Your Next Software ProjectRecently Pixar was kind enough to publish the twenty-two rules of storytelling that its teams follow with every film it releases. And lucky for software developers, it appears that many of these rules can be applied to software development to enrich the storytelling experience for users. |
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Post-it Teams Up with Evernote to Take Sticky Notes DigitalGood news for people who still prefer to jot things down: 3M, the company behind the popular Post-it notes, announced a partnership with personal organization app Evernote to create software that will recognize photos of Post-its taken with a smartphone and let users read, store, and sort notes. |
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