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Run down on current cloud based IAM standards

There has been some activity on cloud based IAM lately, most recently with the release of the new Intel Cloud based IAM solution. It looks pretty expensive for high volumes, but it might make sense for something that has total … Continue reading

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Some analysis of Royce’s own concerns with the Waterfall model

Over at the Art of SW Dev is a very good post giving some historical analysis on Waterfall vs Agile, using Royce’s original paper, and a good understanding of what is agile in the present day. It finds that Royce … Continue reading

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Water-Scrum-Fall is Water-Scrum-Fail

ADT has an interview with Dave West discussing the promise of Agile and the reality of its use. It draws on over 300 interviews and surveys undertaken by Forrester in the area of enterprise Agile adoption and provides attendees with … Continue reading

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Google releases tool to convert Flash to HTML5

I just wrote about the Last Call for HTML5, much of the hype around being concerned with the move to shift out of plug-ins to browser support for RIA, presently driven by Flash and Silverlight. Google has just releases Swiffy, … Continue reading

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HTML5 Draft Last Call by W3C

The W3C HTML 5 Working Draft has reached Last Call milestone, meaning that final testing and broach public comments for the spec are in their final months. The expected candidate recommendation should occur in 2012 Q2. Tweet

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Do you have any of the top 25 coding errors in your code?

This year’s list of the top 25 coding errors was released by the Common Weakness Enumeration project. Development teams and management should be aware of these trends and use them as quality requirements lists in their own development processes. Tweet

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NIST has published a report on Clouds

NIST has released a report that is thorough on cloud computing along the private-public specturm and the types, e.g., SaaS – IaaS. Worth a look as a reference. Tweet

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SOAP vs REST

I was in a discussion the other day with someone questioning REST over SOAP and why on earth one would use REST rather than SOAP. Following are some thoughts on the matter. Tweet

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Errors arising from faulty approaches

Yes, we all get them, foibles of the human condition. Faulty reasoning that traps us in the hell of our errors. But this quote from George Polya is like a little prayer and should be incanted when anyone forgets, or … Continue reading

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Where forward for UHI VC From HD 1080p?

So, here at UHI we are just finishing installing a refresh of our entire VC infrastructure, which we depend upon in a critical fashion. We have the highest number of 1080p capable codecs deployed in any HEI in Britain, if … Continue reading

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