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Archive

17 May 2005

Roleplaying and modeling

You can capture end user requirements in many ways: use cases, business rule definitions, user stories, feature definitions, shall statements and personas, to name a few. Wait a minute. Personas?

Guidance Automation Toolkit

Using the patterns & practices of the Guidance Automation Toolkit, you can make reusable code and pattern assets directly available in Visual Studio 2005.

Information, Downloads and Community Discussion: go to the msdn pages.

IEEE creates services computing community

Using the umbrella phrase 'services computing' the IEEE this morning announced the IEEE Services Computing Community. Within the context of the newly created community, IEEE classifies services as Web services, service-oriented architectures (SOAs), business process integration, autonomic, grid and utility computing.

InfoWorld: IEEE creates services computing community

Big Blue Dips Into Federated ID

IBM has formally joined the red-hot federated identity fray, revealing new single-sign on software that helps enterprises safely let users tap into their computer resources.

Big Blue Dips Into Federated ID

14 May 2005

IT en de wet van Murphy

Dit artikel was eerder te lezen op Infoworld.

Managers worden links en rechts ingehaald door de wet van Murphy, die ook van toepassing is in de it. Omdat de ontwikkelingen in de it-sector steeds sneller gaan, wordt het vermogen om succesvolle voorspellingen te doen, namelijk steeds kleiner. Uw intuītie houdt u voor de gek.

Akzo Nobel (2005/2006)

In 2005 and part of 2006, I was technical officer at Akzo Nobel HQ. I was project leader and lead architect for a project that took the worldwide Internet initiatives of Akzo Nobel to the next level.

The deliverable was to change most of the 200 Akzo Nobel websites into 4th generation websites, steered by heavy use of rich internet applications... but there's a lot more than meets the eye.

Decision-making is an art

According to a study of 376 real-life business decisions, managers tend to use decision-making tactics that are the easiest -- and, consequently, the least successful.

Performance targets miss target

Would performance targets, otherwise known as "work quotas," prevent your team from slacking off? Probably not, according to a recent paper by economists at the University of Bonn.

Two Gorillas Come Together

Industry titans Microsoft and SAP today announced a partnership that should be giving competitors pause.

Oracle to meld Web Services

SOA Software will add Oracle's BPEL engine to its security and management software to shore up its Web services delivery.

Oracle, SOA Software to Meld Web Services

ESB, app servers, brokers: what's best?

"While developers often focus on the system-to-system aspects of SOA, the business audience is more concerned about the larger business agility, cost of ownership, and governance benefits."

ESB, fabric, app servers, brokers: What's best?

01 May 2005

Dynamic Data Entry User Interfaces

Scott Mitchell demonstrates one method of dynamically generating ASP.NET data entry forms based on the data you're editing.

ASP.NET Home: Creating Dynamic Data Entry User Interfaces

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