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Vulnerability management
20 September 06 06:08 AM
This arrived in my email this morning in the sans-qualys vulnerability alert: " Good news - for a change. For everyone who has ever tried to reduce vulnerabilities, and found it very hard, today is a very good day. NIST just announced (this morning) that Read More...
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SD Best Practices materials are updated
18 September 06 07:09 PM
I have placed the slides and demo code in an article here from my talk at SD Best Practices in Boston last week. It was a good week and I had lots of interesting talks this year. The conference has continued to change shape since I first started attending Read More...
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Software Factory du jour
12 June 06 05:34 PM
Beat is one of the more enthusiastic Microsoft evangelists I have met. When I met him in Lillehammer in 2005, he was beating the SOA drum. Now he is beating the Software Factory drum. I think he really believes in what he is doing. I was pretty much ignorant Read More...
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fr-agilists?
12 June 06 08:48 AM
Ouch! and one month later Ouch! (follow the links) If you read through the posts and comments, the heart of the arguments come out. Agile methods and values are no longer the 'fair haired boys" of the industry. The early adopter phase is over and people Read More...
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Java and Debian
22 May 06 11:55 AM
A strange thing happened to me last week during my normal weekly (sometimes daily) refresh of my debian unstable distribution. A very unusual package showed up in the "New in Repository" list: Sun JRE 5. There were various binary and source packages, Read More...
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Congratulations Jimmy!
11 May 06 05:19 AM
Jimmy's book has been printed ! It is an amazing effort to pull together many of the things we have have been talking about for the last few years into a neat accessible bundle. Can you imagine trying to do something like that while you keep working? Read More...
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SOA-Q: Where are the semantics?
06 May 06 09:29 AM
So Jimmy asks the SOA question Where are the semantics? I'll ask a counter question. Where are the semantics in any type of specification? Has this been answered for any other specification unambiguously? It does seem like this working group is trying Read More...
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Whence WPF
05 May 06 05:46 AM
There has been more talk about the Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) lately as release is coming "real soon now". Channel 9 did an interview of Michael Wallent where the history, vision and roadmap of WPF is well covered. Definitely worth a view. Here Read More...
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Specialization vs generalization on development teams
30 April 06 07:59 AM
During the time since my l ast post about this topic my company has grown a lot. That growth has put the generalist idea to the test. A little while back Ralf Westphal posted about the topic too with his usual powerful voice. I have been meaning to follow Read More...
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Web Services vs REST grudge match
29 April 06 06:39 AM
OK, walk away from the discovery issues, lets talk about web services vs REST some more. Did you ever pull from the early days of Web Service visions the idea of tools working with services to enable simple construction of software? Same question but Read More...
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Service Discovery
26 April 06 06:59 PM
I met Udi Dahan in Cortina this year and was surprised to find someone that passionate about SOA. He wasn't alone. Then Jimmy started posing some questions and got some answers. I think that overall story of SOA hasn't resonated with me because for developers Read More...
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Jack and ALSA should become standard Linux features
25 March 06 08:11 AM
For my .net oriented readers this will have to be a little diversion to another world for you. I have been dabbling in an open source project for some time, the Demudi custom distribution of Debian . This distribution was created to provide a pro-audio Read More...
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OR Mapping analogy
12 March 06 10:19 AM
Mats Helander did a post comparing OR mapping to virtual memory in modern computers. It was a great post, comparing data oriented and object database visions of OR mapping. The key to his idea is that to fully embrace OR mapping in the object oriented Read More...
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Another season over
12 March 06 07:32 AM
It's been way over freezing here this week and the weekend looks even warmer with rain. That means the end of the ski season for us nordic buffs. I didn't have much to say this year except for posting about the team that I helped coach this year. What Read More...
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Time to dig into some of the new phenoms out there
11 March 06 07:19 AM
It's pretty easy to just keep focusing on the same old coding topics day after day. Meanwhile, real energy is moving towards new ways to use the web. I've been feeling a really tangible surge in that energy in the last couple of months so it's was time Read More...
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