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The Third Order of Order
I'm thoroughly enjoying David Wein berger's Everything Is Miscell aneous (The Power of the New Digital
Testing Velocity Part 2 - Why do we test?
A couple weeks ago, I began a series on keeping your test suite fast and effective. I now am going
Aptana Jaxer: ser ver-side Ajax
Aptana released Jaxer: the first ever Ajax server... you got that right, ser ver-side Ajax ... the co
App Engine and Java
The world is now split into Python pro grammers, making funny 'Goo' noises over App Engine, and every
GoogleAppE ngine -Not Delivering On the Promise So Far
Well, if you haven't heard of it yet, Google launched something called "Google App Engine", a highly
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Software Integrity

Glitch Watch - 250,000 cell phone subscribers without service
Approximately 250,000 cell phone subscribers lost service for most of Tuesday this week in Vermont and neighboring states. According to the Brattleboro Reformer, a “software issue” caused the problem, which caused the loss of Unicel̵
Video: New Features in Java 6
With JavaOne commencing this week, there will be much persuasion for those not yet upgraded to Java 6 to do so. Although not as rich in features as the move to Java 5 was, Java 6 still has benefits. My favorites include: - A scripting engine (Rhino)
Glitch Watch - Volvo recalls 65,000 cars
Ford Motor Company announced this week that it will recall 65,000 Volvo V70 and XC70 cars because of a problem with the software that controls the side-impact air bags. Apparently the recall applies only to cars in Europe. According to Volvo’
Book Review - Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash
Tom and Mary Poppendieck are two leading evangelists of Lean software development who share their experiences at conferences on a regular basis. Their first book was an excellent introduction to lean principles and tools, and this book continues the
Glitch Watch - Lower than low fares at Aer Lingus
Glitch Watch is a bit abbreviated this week by virtue of the fact that I am on the road which severely limits the amount of time I have available to sort through the mail bag. However, one story did catch my eye this week. Irish airline Aer Lingus
Video: Cease Inspections
When investigating Lean for the first time, books and articles that give an overview of the principles and tenets of Lean can appear to be contradictory. For example many managers may question how Cease Inspections can be advocated where a basic prin
Glitch Watch - Nuclear software fault goes undetected for 28 years
Stillwater, MN: the Stillwater Lift Bridge got stuck in the open position for more than two hours this week after its controlling computer got “confused”. According to Minnesota Department of Transportation spokeswoman Mary McFarland-Bro
Glitch Watch - TomTom gets lost in FLA
Problems with a new $3m automated trip reservation system caused difficulties last week for disabled users of Chicago’s paratransit system. Apparently, computerizing the dispatch system was supposed to make things better for the roughly 6,000
Video: Small steps
When your manager says: “We expect you to write good quality code,” many people, especially junior developers, will freeze, thinking about code structure, performance, best practices, company coding standards, patternsÂ… the list goes on a
Glitch Watch - Turkey hunters forced to wait in line
Wednesday last week in Lake Placid, FL, residents were warned to boil water after a computer glitch caused the town’s water storage tanks, which together hold some 300,000 gallons, to run dry. By Friday, the water was back on, and certified dr
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SOA World - HP Delivers!
HP News Desk wrote: Somewhere out there an ode is being written to HP - and some lady investor is explaining to her husband about her abiding crush on HP's CEO, the 'Great Deliverer'
HP May Accidentally Kill Black Duck & Palamida
Kirstan Vandersluis wrote: HP and its FOSSology initiative further legitimizes open source use for the large corporation. This is good news for Black Duck and Palamida, as they depend on open source adoption for market growth. Their business model must evolve, though, just ...
Oracle Buys BEA, Sun Buys MySQL: What's the Future for Developers?
Dean wrote: The future ? More users and developers will look at Open Source databases such as Ingres.
HP Still Playing Catch Me If You Can
HP News Desk wrote: If you listen to IDC, PCs were up a solid but still less-than-expected 15.5% worldwide in Q4. If you listen to Gartner the number was 13.1%.
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Fitch Affirms Hewlett Packard on Proposed EDS Acquisition; Outlook Stable
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Borland Finally Dumps CodeGear Tools Division
It's only taken Borland two years but it's finally dumped its CodeGear tools division, responsible f
Microsoft To Keynote 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo
Mike Neil is general manager for virtualization strategy in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft
Virtualization Conference Keynote Webcast Live on SYS-CON.TV
Brian Stevens, the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Red Hat, delivered
3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo: Themes & Topics
From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discu
Red Hat Named "Platinum Sponsor" of Virtualization Conference & Expo
Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan fo
Virtualization Meets DaaS - Desktop-as-a-Service
After a $1.5 million angel round, Desktone, which was started in 2006 by Eric Pulier, who also start
Carly a Heartbeat from the White House?
An on-the-beach IT executive who's been watching a lot of political coverage lately called to ask wh
Engelbart's Usability Dilemma: Efficiency vs Ease-of-Use
The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Cent
Steve Jobs Loses His Mind - Sues "The Big Apple"
Friday morning the local Fox television station in New York City broke the news - Apple was suing Ne
Web 2.0 Is Fundamentally About Empowering People
'Unlocking content to be remixed into new business value' is the driver of Web 2.0 in the enterprise
Why Do 'Cool Kids' Choose Ruby or PHP to Build Websites Instead of Java?
Here is a question that I have been pondering on and off for quite a while: Why do 'cool kids' choos
Billy Hoffman Explores AJAX Vulnerabilities at AJAXWorld
The work of Billy Hoffman, lead security researcher for SPI Dynamics (www.spidynamics.com), which wa
Hurd Remakes HP Labs
HP Labs is reorganizing to focus on research that brings in money. Its priorities are now the Inform
Drupal Creator Forms Company
Acquia has yet to price its maintenance and support subscriptions - there should be a variety of SLA
HP Labs To Pursue 20 to 30 Large IT Research Projects
In a press event today at HP company headquarters, HP announced that it has sharpened the focus of i
Burp Alert: Sun Swallows MySQL
Sun closed on its acquisition of MySQL today, calling the billion-dollar purchase the 'most importan
SOA World - HP Delivers!
Somewhere out there an ode is being written to HP - and some lady investor is explaining to her husb
HP Virtualization Adds Second IBM-Whacking Itanium Blade
HP has added a second Itanium blade to its IBM-whacking BladeSystem arsenal, its first quad-socket (
Microsoft's Old Number Three Turns Up at EMC on a Cloud
and Service Division that will include the four-year-old start-up EMC just agreed to buy off of him.
EC Threats Pry Microsoft Clam Open
Microsoft today attempted to exorcize the interoperability bogeymen that have haunted it since it wa
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