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 Managing an application release and its distribution is a complex piece of the development process. A release may pass every test in QA, then quickly go haywire when in production. Components can get left behind, destination targets are missed or files get installed in the wrong locati...May. 17, 2010 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,662 |
Though I am a strong believer in Agile process, I always get a feeling that a product backlog does not give the full picture of the expected product and we need something more to define it.
Let us first look at how product backlog is prepared?
You start with either a business p... Jun. 18, 2009 01:02 AM EDT Reads: 1,943 |
 Like technology, everything in life tends to repeat, although in newer, fresher and more useful applications. The fashion trend toward slim fit clothes shifts to baggy, then back again; suits go from three to two button and back to three; pastels and bright colors to earth tones as it ...Jan. 30, 2010 02:45 PM EST Reads: 1,676 |
 Intel, which just got its ass whooped by the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly smothering GPU competition and for looking like it’s gonna move its CPU monopoly into the GPU market, announced its first big Atom chip rev on Monday. It integrates graphics directly into the single- an...Dec. 23, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,001 |
 Breach Security has announced the release of the WebDefend Global Event Manager, a solution developed to work in conjunction with the new Web Application Firewall service offered by Akamai Technologies. When deployed with Akamai’s Web Application Firewall service, the WebDefend Global ...Dec. 15, 2009 06:30 PM EST Reads: 2,400 |
 Run Drupal, WordPress, SugarCRM, or other PHP-based apps on Windows today with the free Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Microsoft WebsiteSpark is a specially designed program for PHP Web developers and designers to help you explore running on Windows. This program enables you to get ...Dec. 11, 2009 03:30 PM EST Reads: 2,941 |
 Dell has broken out a mobile device unit to develop phones and portable widgets. It will be headed by Motorola import Ron Garriques, who currently runs Dell’s consumer division. That division will now be joined to Dell’s SMB unit under Steve Felice, which should cut costs. Dell moved t...Dec. 11, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,006 |
 Us “Baby Boomers” tend to believe we have accomplished a lot in the years ranging from our roots of hard rock, to the birth of basic internet technologies in the early 1970s. We started our generation with black and white television, experiencing everything from the assassination of P...Dec. 1, 2009 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,178 |
 "As companies such as MySpace continue to expand the richness of their site, the big thing is trying to seek a higher level of customer experience by replicating "beyond capacity" in a test environment, so that a company can see what it is exactly that they will need when traffic surge...Nov. 26, 2009 09:30 PM EST Reads: 4,246 Replies: 2 |
 Microsoft’s CFO Chris Liddell, 51, a New Zealand import, is bored and wants a better job. So he’s “looking at a number of opportunities that will expand his career beyond being a CFO” – according to a statement out of Microsoft – and will be leaving at the end of the year.
Microsof...Nov. 25, 2009 03:15 AM EST Reads: 1,768 |
 I’m willing to make this little bet with you: Most people of a certain age are more than willing to bet folding green that IBM ‘invented’ virtualization. Gen-any-letters will bet VMware with confidence. You will win either way.
Today’s burgeoning virtualization market is a differen...Nov. 17, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,134 |
 Two Madoff computer programmers who authorities say made the whole decades-long $65 billion Ponzi scheme possible were arrested Friday and brought up on criminal charges of conspiracy, falsifying the books and records of a broker-dealer and falsifying the books and records of an invest...Nov. 14, 2009 12:15 AM EST Reads: 2,744 |
 Zend has gotten Varien, apparently a hot e-commerce platform, to ship the free Community Edition of Zend Server, the PHP web application server with the free Community Edition of its open source Magento e-commerce software. Varien, in turn, will contribute a number of native e-commerce...Nov. 13, 2009 03:30 PM EST Reads: 2,420 |
 Microsoft was in one of its interoperability moods Wednesday and said that developers using Eclipse, the great open source IDE, will be able to target Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, its Azure cloud operating system and Silverlight. This renewed open source invasion – Microsoft’s no...Oct. 30, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,561 |
 Zend Technologies, the PHP company, has hung Zend Server 5.0, which support IBM i as well as Linux and Windows, out for public beta. A production release should be out by the end of the year. The widgetry is a major new version of the company’s enterprise-ready PHP application server, ...Oct. 28, 2009 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,050 |
 The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter and join data across Web services in real-time. With YQL, applications run faster with fewer lines of code and smaller network footprint. In this session Jonathan Trevor, who works in the Y! Platf...Oct. 28, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,654 |
 A round-up of the problems, issues and opportunities due to be discussed October 6, 2009 in Washington, DC, at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com), a 1-day deep dive into the new wave of Internet-based technologies that are changing the way that Fed...Sep. 27, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,367 |
 Half the apps on the Internet are written in PHP. That gives Zend Technologies, the PHP house, a stake in the cloud. So it’s rounded up cloud merchants Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, GoGrid and Nirvanix and has gotten them to support its new open source drive to create a so-called Simple A...Sep. 23, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,778 |
 PHP/Zend, Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, GoGrid and Nirvanix have launched a new low level cloud API for PHP called the "Simple Cloud API". The API can best be described as low level storage focused API (An API for other API's). In a sense it's a way to create other higher level programmat...Sep. 22, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,153 |
 Keynote Systems, a provider of on-demand mobile and Internet test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience, today announced Version 3.0 of KITE (Keynote Internet Testing Environment). KITE 3.0 is Keynote’s free desktop tool for real time testing, diagnos...Sep. 16, 2009 08:12 AM EDT Reads: 1,133 |
 Build Release Management (BRM) is truly the next generation of IT Change Management. With BRM, you can get compliant and implement total process automation while continuing to work with whatever version control tool, testing application or IDE you are currently using. Download this ess...Sep. 14, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,462 |
 The Magnetic Sales Professional doesn't see their role as job. They see it as a calling.Sep. 6, 2009 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,493 |
 The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has rescued Microsoft Word from being clamped in injunctive leg irons, barred from sale on the US market.
On Thursday the court gave Microsoft the stay it was looking for while it appeals the decision of a Texas district court that it ...Sep. 4, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,845 |
 While so much of the buzz around Web 2.0 has focused on the business-to-consumer market, the greatest opportunity today for vendors is in the business-to-business collaboration space.
Aug. 31, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,566 |
 Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing - pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However, enterprises are also concerned about secu...Aug. 18, 2009 12:15 AM EDT Reads: 13,640 |
 IT presenters are being hard-hit by a rampant new disease: the F5 Flu, a variation of Death by Power Point. Read on to find out about transmission, symptoms, and most importantly, how to get vaccinated.Aug. 17, 2009 02:54 PM EDT Reads: 2,677 |
 In my recent blog post – Get more out of functional web testing: How to correlate test reports with server side log information? – I discussed the problem that testing results are usually not linked to the log and diagnostics information captured by the application under test. The blog...Aug. 7, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,006 |
 As more and more data become available as a matter of course, the examples set by organisations such as MySociety become increasingly attainable for us all. Other than ensuring that it is ‘open,’ do we need to be asking for more from those making data available? And once it’s there, wi...Aug. 2, 2009 04:34 PM EDT Reads: 2,976 |
 This article describes a method to use a perl debugger on trigger scripts without advanced interprocess debugging tools.
Using a perl debugger with a V4.x server side trigger launched by the server is very difficult and encounters two known obstacles:
The server will fire the tri...Aug. 1, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,147 |
 Many have discussed and commented on Cloud computing’s benefits, as well as its risks, though I have heard few discussions on Cloud computing’s impact on business process re-engineering, and how to get from the existing internal business processes to a Cloud computing model.
For sm...Jul. 28, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,402 |
 Zend Technologies, the PHP commercializer, has put out a major new release of Zend Studio, its IDE for the PHP language.
Designed to improve productivity for professional-grade web application development, Studio 7.0 supports the newly released PHP 5.3 language as well as tight integ...Jul. 31, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,214 |
 Rackspace Hosting Thursday open sourced the specifications for its Cloud Servers and Cloud Files APIs under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license.
It says it worked with developers in an open community to create the specifications and they can now copy, implement and modify t...Jul. 23, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,794 |
 IT managers can look to an unlikely source for career inspiration: the late Walter Cronkite. The guiding principles that made Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America" can help impact your career in the world of high tech.
The late Walter Cronkite as a role model for IT managers? ...Jul. 20, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,673 |
 Step by step instructions to configure Eclipse for PHP with the WampServer on a Windows platform. The most recent version of Eclipse, version 3.5 RC4, is used.Jun. 29, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,472 |
 Microsoft announced at TechEd India — a show running simultaneously with TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles, a new software development kit for people interested in building apps in PHP for Windows Azure cloud. The PHP SDK for Windows Azure, a.k.a. PHPAzure, is an open source project, availabl...Jun. 12, 2009 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,772 |
 Online commerce is no longer just for consumer products, but also for direct and indirect goods and services. As a result, new demands are placed on classic customer relationship management (CRM) applications. While most have successfully automated customer-facing interactions (such as...Jun. 7, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,578 |
 Altor Networks announced today that Network Products Guide, industry’s leading publication on information technologies and solutions has named Altor VF virtual firewall a winner of the 2009 Best Products and Services Award. This respected annual award honors products and services that ...May. 19, 2009 12:16 PM EDT Reads: 1,427 |
 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told Reuters in an e-mail interview that then got put in a filing and shipped to the SEC that, despite all the armchair speculation, he's keeping Sun's hardware business. Not only that but he's going to pour money into Sun's Sparc chip.May. 16, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,788 Replies: 1 |
 Joel Spolsky doesn't need my help in defending himself. But since he's my favorite blogger and a person I highly respect, I feel obligated to speak up. Mr. Curt Monash has written an article implying that Joel overestimates his importance while not achieving that much since he was able...Mar. 9, 2009 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,566 |
 Ulitzer.com, which initially made the headlines with its “job descriptions from the future,” announced today that it will launch its Ulitzer “beta” site with more than 16,000 authors and more than 1 million original articles, published in more than 5,000 topic-specific online journals....Feb. 3, 2009 09:30 PM EST Reads: 31,426 Replies: 2 |
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