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Devlin to step down at Rational

Danny Sabbah will become IBM's general manager for Rational when Mike Devlin retires in the next few weeks. Read more »

At tech firms, time again for flextime?

Despite a clampdown after the dot-com bust, some employees now have more options about when and where they work. Read more »

FSF lawyer recommends express patent license for GPL, BSD

Free Software Foundation (FSF) senior counsel, Dan Ravicher, has put forward a recommendation to help developers avoid potential legal pitfalls when distributing software under free and open source licenses. Read more »

In T-SQL, use CASE...WHEN in place of IF...THEN

Add some flexibility to your program flow in T-SQL with the CASE...WHEN statement. Get a hands-on look at the statement's syntax and the advantages it can provide for your application. Read more »

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'Skip Intro': the Curse of Flash

Flash animations can either add useful features to your site, or drive visitors away before they've even seen what you're offering. Here's some usability tips when using Flash on your Web site. Read more »

When to opt for remoting over Web services

Microsoft promotes Web services as the ultimate solution, but the .NET platform includes other options. Learn more about when and where remoting may be used as opposed to Web services. Read more »

Define and apply delegate declarations

How do you define a delegate and where do you put it? Tony Patton dives into delegates in this article. Read more »

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    This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

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  • Chris Duckett IE9's H.264 vote killed Ogg

    In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

  • Staff Google launches Apps Marketplace

    Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

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