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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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Stack Overflow
Forgot to mention this, but recently the new programmers community Stack Overflow came out of beta and now is available to everyone. This
collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers
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Creating upgradable bookmarklets
I haven’t seen this technique before, but the implementation of Reading Blinds bookmarklet, a tool to focus your eyes on reading a page, really eases maintenance of a published bookmarklet.
Instead of embedding the JavaScript code in the link, this bookmarklet uses the DOM to add a script link the <head> of the page. This gives the developer an easy way to release improved version, just update the file and all users will automatically use the new version.
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Oracle producten beschikbaar op Amazon EC2
Amazon heeft aangekondigd dat de Oracle producten Database 11g, Fusion Middleware en Enterprise Manager binnen Amazon’s EC2 infrastructuur beschikbaar is. Meer informatie van Oracle in het Oracle Cloud Computing Center.
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Microsoft renames IE-specific CSS properties
With the intent to reach full CSS 2.1 compliance with Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft has announced their decision to place all CSS properties that fulfill one of the following conditions behind the ‘-ms-’ prefix:
- If the property is a Microsoft extension (not defined in a CSS specification/module).
- If the property is part of a CSS specification or module that hasn’t received Candidate Recommendation status from the W3C.
- If the property is a partial implementation of a property that is defined in a CSS specification or module.
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Creating photo mosaics with Yahoo! BOSS image search
Article that describes how to use Yahoo!’s BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) to search for images and Ruby to create a photo mosaic building program that stitches together a mosaic from any number of photos.
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Beyond Functional Requirements On Agile Projects
Article describing strategies for addressing nonfunctional requirements in an agile development environment. Nonfunctional requirements (NFRs), also known as “technical requirements” or “quality of service” (QoS) requirements, focus on aspects that typically cross-cut functional requirements. Common NFRs include accuracy, availability, concurrency, consumability (a superset of usability), environmental/green concerns, internationalization, operations issues, performance, regulatory concerns, reliability, security, serviceability, support, and timeliness.
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How Web 2.0 technology may form BPM 2.0
Take advantage of Web 2.0 for next-generation BPM 2.0 covers the convergence of Web 2.0 and BPM along with the use of other standards, which have helped organizations become more agile and dynamic and have given business analysts a greater role in modeling, managing, executing, and optimizing core business processes. Learn about the attributes of BPM 2.0, and see which IBM® products are available in this space.
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