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Microsoft as OpenId provider, but when as a consumer?
Microsoft announced the public availability of a preview of the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider. For users, having more providers is nice, but you only need 1. To make the system work you want all sites you use to accept that ID. So it’s not only the availability of more providers, more important is getting sites to be OpenID consumers and letting users log in with their portable ID.
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Ramsay Millar on trends in software process improvement
An interesting read is this DDJ article by Ramsay Millar in which he describes these trends he sees happening in software process improvement:
- A shift towards more collaborative, role-based teamwork and away from the “lone wolf” IT culture of code-and-fix.
- A wish to close the gap between business requirements and software delivery by applying an agile process and best-of-breed automation to the entire software development life cycle.
- An increasing acceptance and sophistication of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) standard.
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Early voting
De presidentsverkiezingen zijn pas op 4 november, maar het stemmen is nu al begonnen. Early voting heet het en vorige keer deed wel 22% van de kiezers mee.
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Floepvenster
Een mooi vertaling: floepvenster – voor een popup venster van een browser. Nu 4 hits op Google, dat kan vast omhoog.