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• Mitigate Mobile Crossplatform Headaches

  Android is now the most widely used mobile operating system in both the United States and the world, according to the research firms Canalys and Nielsen. But behind that news lurk a lot of headaches for enterprise developers.

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  - TIM KRIDEL

• The Billion Dollar Lost Laptop Problem

  Every time a business laptop is lost or stolen, an organization takes a direct cost hit. But how much of a hit might surprise you. What would your organization do if it realized that each year it’s losing millions of dollars in this way? Odds are, it would be far more diligent in protecting laptops.

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  - BY THE EDITORS OF INTELLIGENCE IN SOFTWARE FOR INTELLIGENCE IN SOFTWARE

• Starting ActionScript Programming

  In this new series, Huw Collingbourne explains the fundamental features of ActionScript programming. If you are new to ActionScript, this is the place to start!

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  - HUW COLLINGBOURNE

• The Union Platform Integrating JavaScript and Flex Clients

  Social gaming is all about interacting, and sometimes you have to adapt how you communicate.

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  - CHAD TERNENT

• Protecting What You Don’t Know Is Yours

  It seems self-evident to state that you cannot protect what you don’t know is yours. This is the basic principle that this article will emphasize and build upon. Although the principle applies in the case of all property, including intellectual property (IP), it is often ignored in the case of copyrights.

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  - EVE HEAFEY

• Anatomy of a Software Code Audit Process

  Software has become a major component of products that are produced by most technology companies and is rarely written from scratch.

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  - KAMAL HASSIN

• Scoreoid and the Importance of Leaderboards

  Games are becoming ever more popular, especially causal games on mobile devices and tablets. As games become cross platform the importance of leaderboards is multiplied.

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  - ALMOG KOREN

• Let’s Chat Developing A Chat Application With XMLSocket and EventMachine

  In this article we’ll take the chat example app presented in my previous article (IoC l10n)and connect it to a simple chat server developed with Ruby and Event Machine.

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  - MARC PIRES

• 10 Things Every Java Developer Should Know About Flex

  Java developers make great Flex/Flash developers. As an Adobe Certified Technical Trainer who has taught many Java programmers in the last several years, I have seen first-hand how quickly Java developers adapt to ActionScript.

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  - KEVIN RUSE, DARRYL WEST

• Steve Lionel on Why Fortran Still Matters

  Steve Lionel says Fortran, at 54 years old, remains important in an era when most programmers focus on languages like PERL, Python and Java. Lionel, also known as Dr. Fortran, is a senior member of Intel’s technical staff, and has a long history with Fortran having developed Fortran compilers at Digital Equipment Corp.

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  - BRIDGET MOORE

• Nice Gesture, But What Does It Mean?

  One step forward, two steps back. That’s how Don Norman describes today’s gesture-based user interfaces (UIs) for smartphones, tablets and a growing assortment of other devices.

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  - TIM KRIDEL