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- Panel: How to sell SOA governance to a skeptical audience
- SOA governance needs more automation to reduce the 'chaos' by Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Misinformation travels fast
- One of the amazing things about the age we live in is the speed at which information propagates, whether correct or not. Matthew Brown of Forrester Research touched on this recently on September 11th (an infamous date of course, which seven years ago had everyone clamoring for information to find...
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- iTKO's SOA testing and validation role supports increasingly complex integration lifecycles
- We like the fact that we're changing systems more frequently. We're not doing that because we want chaos. We're doing it because it's helping the businesses get to market faster, achieving regulatory compliance faster, and all of those good things. We like the fact that we're changing, and that we...
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- The Dark Side Of Web 2.0 And Technology Populism
- So before my flight West today, I picked up the recent Jeff Howe book Crowdsourcing. I was looking for a little inspiration for a speech I'm giving at Forrester's Business & Technology Leadership Forum on a trend we call "Technology Populism." Like other edgy, Web 2.0-ey books of our era...
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Reviewing an IRS web services report
- Reviewing an IRS web services reportWhere's Anton?This is a great example of his "empower the users" by letting them run whatever M$ software they "need" on their PCs. To hell with those big bad IT admins - we'll just do it ourselves! Unfortunately now the security of the entire IRS...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticism
- Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticismWell, everything MS does is carefully calculated to make you think they aresupporting standards, at the same time creating a lot of confusion and dragging their feet. But, maybe Opera is being a little picky here, they should just talk about the overall...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Tech giants may face dollar daze
- Tech giants may face dollar dazeMerchants of chaos strike againand they can't resist putting a negative spin on ANY news, even items that are contradictory. So, when the dollar declines, it's bad. When the dollar stops declining, it's bad.Journalists must be some amazingly depressive people to be around.The most important...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Is SOA an elixir or real fix for 'medieval' data practices?
- Is SOA an elixir or real fix for 'medieval' data practices?All about the dataI can't agree more with Ash. The data is a pivotal piece of an SOA (most IT approaches, really), and is often under-served by SOA initiatives and projects. Data is diverse, duplicated, dispersed, dirty, and...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Technology: where on the scale from cure to curse?
- I'm old enough to remember the many apocalyptic scenarios conjured up by nuclear weapons and the Cold War. From Alas, Babylon to "The Day After", from Godzilla himself, the second half of the Twentieth Century was repeatedly haunted by vivid imaginings of the post-nuclear world, or its ending....
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- News to know: Microsoft's Fiji; Apple; Green IT
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft finally speaks out on 'Fiji' Zack Whittaker: Windows Fiji: a world class failure Gallery: Windows Fiji - Screenshots right Gallery: Windows Fiji - Setup Garett Rogers: Google Translate for iPhone has...
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Qantas IT problems cause Sydney airport "chaos"
- Poor staff training on Qantas' new Altea Departure Control-Flight Management system led to delays on flights departing from Sydney, Australia. Given the airline's poor IT record, no one should be surprised. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Zittrain explains the future of the Internet
- Zittrain explains the future of the InternetThe internet is...A series of tube-like structures that can get clogged with too much information. Some tubes will be made bigger in the future to enhance the flow of information, but in reality we will discover that the new, wider tubes, will be filled...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Day 2: iPhone Dev Camp 2
- Yesterday I learned a few lessons about live blogging. Not many people are refreshing it as much as I was. I should list my posts with most recent at the top instead of the other way around. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-03
- Apple finally ships DNS flaw fix, patches 16 other Mac OS X holes
- Apple finally ships DNS flaw fix, patches 16 other Mac OS X holesScary combination of arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation!!!Very, very scary. Makes me glad I use more secure OSs.RE: Apple finally ships DNS flaw fixHi NZ, We are all grateful your unstinting efforts to point out the failings...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
- Death Track: Resurrection demo (exe)
- Death Track: Resurrection is a successor of Deathtrack, one of the founders of the combat racing genre. Death Track: Resurrection is a racing/action title that plunges players into in the not too distant future, into a world of chaos. Traditional sports are replaced by far more aggressive, violent and thrilling...
- Software downloads 2008-07-29
- Ready for real Indian medicine?
- Ready for real Indian medicine?Reply from C.A. ChienDear Mr. Blankenhorn:Thanks for your note. To clarify: (1) I wanted to document my inventive system-design and inter-connection work on [i]Medical Onshoring[/i]; thus, the USPTO filing; (2) as to the "how," head to --http://tinyurl.com/6c4tj4" .. Covering the professional world (e.g., health care, computing),...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position
- Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : "A recent...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- TTProtect (zip)
- TTProtect is an advanced software protection tool, it protect software against cracker. It absorb the advantages of the other protections, and adding own characteristics, use of a unique anti-tracking methods, make it difficult to debug protected application. TTprotect features Debugger Detection, Anti-Attached, Drx decoding, Code Chaos and confusion, Virtual Machine...
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
- News to know: Apple, Crapware; Icahn and Yahoo; Brocade
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple reports record Q3 08 Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan? Dennis Howlett: Apple chaos theory Jason O'Grady: Apple Q3 2008...
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- 600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddance!
- Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! As the great Obi-Wan Kenobi once said "I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced." Click on the "Read the rest of this entry" link below...
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
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