Profile of Andrew Binstock

Editor-in-chief, Dr. Dobb's Journal

Member Since: 11/15/2013
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News & Commentary Posts: 12
Comments: 15

Prior to joining Dr. Dobb's Journal, Andrew Binstock worked as a technology analyst, as well as a columnist for SD Times, a reviewer for InfoWorld, and the editor of UNIX Review. Before that, he was a senior manager at Price Waterhouse. He began his career in software development.

Articles by Andrew Binstock

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Google's API Riddle

7/2/2014
Google services are everywhere -- but the company's lack of long-term commitment to products and APIs make it tough to know which ones to include in new apps.
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Redmond's Remarkable Reversal With Developers

6/26/2014
Microsoft, facing significant risks in the post-PC era, has made surprising changes to the way it works with developers.
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Apple's Swift Language: Not All Positive

6/10/2014
Apple's new language, Swift, will be welcomed by developers primarily as an antidote to working in Objective-C. But Apple's continued insistence on a closed ecosystem is a missed opportunity.
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Developer Salaries 2014: Show Me The Money

5/19/2014
Survey of more than 2,200 U.S. developers shows salaries in a well-paid field are nudging up as the economy picks up steam.
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Open Source's Deep-Seated Conflict

5/7/2014
Heartbleed showed that it doesn't matter whether open source projects can patch bugs faster. The real issue is whether they can generate enough revenue to stay alive.
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BASIC Turns 50: A Love/Hate Story

4/30/2014
We look back on BASIC's 50 years of attracting -- and repelling -- new programmers.
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Internet Of Things Will Demand Continuous Development

4/17/2014
The Internet of Things will add so much programmability to devices that keeping software current will become a never-ending task.
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The Corruption Of Agile Development

3/19/2014
What was intended as a set of personal practices has become a doctrine. And despite the mainstream adoption of Agile, the loss of its original intent has undermined its effectiveness.
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The JavaScript Alternatives

3/14/2014
Three languages compete to make JavaScript easier to write and faster to execute. Which to choose?
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Financial Truths About The .NET Development Ecosystem

2/13/2014
Microsoft's high prices for dev tools fund a cottage industry that has no parallel in computing.
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IBM Sells Its Business Machines: Takeaway Lessons

1/29/2014
You've seen IT silver bullets come and go before? Make no mistake: IBM truly expects data centers to move to the cloud.
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The Rise And Fall Of Programming Languages

1/22/2014
Here's what happened in 2013 to C, Java, Objective-C, C++, C#, PHP, Visual Basic, and Python.
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