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Standalone Apps Come with Little Risk and Big RewardsApplications often house messengers, editing software, or other social functions, putting a great deal of pressure on a single icon to do a handful of things. Instead of putting all their eggs in one basket, developers are now splitting up products and introducing standalone apps to the world. | 
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Take a More Agile Approach to Problem SolvingYour managers want you to estimate features or projects months or even years in advance. But the work changes—or the code changes, or the people on the project change. What you thought might be a reasonable estimate four weeks ago looks wacko when you revisit it in six months. What can you do? | 
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Are You a Bad Boss? Here’s How to Know If reading articles about how to be a good boss were all it took to be one, there wouldn’t be so many articles about how to survive a horrible boss. The trouble is that the bad bosses usually don’t know they’re bad. But there are clues. Read on to see if you exhibit any of these bad-boss behaviors. |
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Application and System Orchestration with Evolving Cloud ArchitecturesAs the cloud industry matures, it is finally poised for the next generation of cloud architectures based on innovative orchestration tools and service overlays designed to provide organizations more flexibility and more choices than ever before for building cloud applications and infrastructures. | 
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The Importance of Tool Independence in Test AutomationCommand-driven testing has proven to be a good way to implement pattern tool independence. The main advantage is that you just have to develop the commands in the script language of the tool. To change tools, you only have to rewrite the keyword commands in the script language of the new tool. | 
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China Challenging Google and Microsoft in OS WarThanks to a lack of trust in the United States' surveillance policies, China hopes to replace massively popular properties such as Windows and Android as the leading OS in the country, both on mobile and desktop devices. The current target date for release is October. |
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Why You Should Take a Bow When You Deserve OneIf the project you're managing goes better than planned—you finish ahead of schedule, under budget, or with greater results than expected—you might be inclined to chalk it up to luck and not want to draw attention. But here's an argument for why you should make sure people notice and you get credit. | 
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Robots Roundup: Flash Mobs, Room Service, and HitchhikersA long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... R2-D2, the most beloved robot in the Star Wars universe, made us heart robots. Although today's robots can’t match R2-D2’s charisma, they are performing some pretty amazing feats. Pamela Rentz looks at some of the latest robotics projects. | 
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