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After the software development lifecycle, programs experience certain evolutionary transitions. There is the moment of genesis when the initial application demonstrates capabilities in a proof of concept, but that is ultimately superceded by a succession of modifications that eventually jeopardizes the maintainability of that code.

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Apple Virtual Store

Apple has finally done what Microsoft should have done years ago, they have an App Store where programmers can sell products and take advantage of an instant electronic distribution mechanism. There are quite a few benefits inherent to this infrastructure, and for anyone who has tried to develop and market a software application it will be nearly self evident. Read on for my list of benefits and of course the set of counterpoints you will want to consider before publishing to the Apple version of a virtual electronic storefront.

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HDCP Hell

My Samsung SyncMaster 215TW is a fabulous display that has proven challenging to configure with Ubuntu. At the very top of the list is the inability for the DVI connector to do anything at all, even when the computer starts in text mode there is nothing onscreen. After plugging in a Windows laptop, it seemed the only conclusion was that DVI is effectively unsupported on this display. Read HDCP Hell >>

Accelerating Agile Development

In many respects, agile development can already be considered a more efficient software development methodology – it’s hard to believe that this process can be accelerated even further. While there are a number of things that you need to do to properly manage the risk of agile development, the cornerstone of this process is the iteration document which describes the features you are implementing.

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Playing ISO Images on Ubuntu

So it use to be that you could simply double-click on an ISO image and have it automatically launch Totem. Assuming the ISO contained an image of a DVD filesystem, it would start to play the movie. This convenient feature has been replaced in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) with the equally convienent feature of mounting the ISO image as another drive.

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