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Alan Kay Biography

The Crazy Programmer

In 1984, he joined Apple and due to his extraordinary contribution, he became an Apple Fellow, but that group was closed in 1997. This was informed by his experiences with Sketchpad, Simula, Smalltalk, and his code of commercial software. He formulated the idea of laptops, tablets, and e-books. Awards and Recognitions.

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John Carmack Biography

The Crazy Programmer

He is the co-founder of id Software, and the main programmer of popular games Wolfenstein, Commander Keen, 3D, Quake and Doom. He accepted job at Softdisk, a software publishing firm in Louisiana. Being successful with this game, in 1991 they left Softdisk and founded id software. John Carmack is credited for making 51 games.

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Attending Oracle’s CodeOne? Here Are 15 Sessions Everyone Will Be Talking About

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He’s going to be talking about code quality in open source projects and identifying problems in the code. Is Boilerplate Code Really So Bad? No matter how quickly or slowly code moves through development or how diligent your testing is, some issues will only surface in production when real data is involved.

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IT leaders adjust budget priorities as economic outlook shifts

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Analyst firm IDC expects more of a moving target on tech budgets due to market volatility, the strength of the US dollar, inflation rates, and continued slow global growth due to economic drag by China and other key countries. His team also upgrades ITW corporate’s packaged software.

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What is SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)?

Openxcell

Software Development Life Cycle – Overview. SDLC stands for Software Development Life Cycle. Software Development Life Cycle does so by delivering systems that move through each clearly defined phase within a scheduled time frame and cost estimate. Hence, the results are high-quality software as per customer expectations.

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AppDev 101: 9 Reasons Why You Should Use Agile Software Development

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In 2001, a group of expert software developers created the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. That document started a movement in the software development world and many teams now use the Agile software development approach. What is Agile Software Development? Benefits of Agile Software Development.

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‘Graceful way out’: Investors propose some struggling founders close shop and return funding

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It’s so much cheaper and easier to find [product-market] due to no-code tools — I strongly believe that for 95% of software products out there, you can figure it out without writing a line of code. So during those two years, we went away from the fundraising stage gates that have been the norm for several years.