Mac News: Going native on apps can get Apple user loyalty   
Apple’s efforts to rein in its reliance on third-party apps with the next iteration of its iOS mobile operating system (OS) will help Cupertino gain a competitive edge over rivals and win customer loyalty. These native apps, though, should focus on communications rather than basic functions such as e-mail or calendaring.    
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Technology News: The Latest Threat: A Virus Made Just for You   
The Flashback computer virus gained notoriety earlier this year as the first malware to make headway against Apple’s relatively untouched operating system, Mac OS X, infecting some 600,000 victims’ machines at the peak of the outbreak.    
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Programming News: Thrash your controllers and presenters! Jeph has come   
To begin, some bold statements: All current frameworks do it wrong!, and I know a better way! I call it Jeph. Split your MVC framework into the M, V, and C parts. The framework will mostly let you choose what you use for the M- e.g. activerecord, or datamapper implementation. Similarly the V, which means you can choose your favorite template engine. The only part you cannot change is the C. Obviously you can, but it’s the same as using another framework, or not using the framework at all. Frameworks also have a combination of M and V that works the best with their C.    
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Standards News: A forgotten military standard that saves weeks of work (by providing free project management templates)   
Nobody loves to write documentation, but with age and experience, IT project managers usually come to accept that it can be useful sometimes, even necessary. In healthy doses. Now, if you’re doing small to medium software projects, the US military might not be your usual place to turn to for inspiration. But in one case, back in ’94, they did create something truly wonder-, power-, and useful. (Then they’ve thrown it away and replaced it with a complex and much less useful hybrid IEEE and ISO monster.    
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