Upcoming (via Many2Many) is interesting. But it immediately causes the following questions to come to mind; I'm sure I must not be the first to ask such things: Has a method to embed iCal into XML ever been approved or agreed upon? If so, let me refer to it as xCal. Has a method to… Continue reading Upcoming
Month: September 2003
Notes and Tips: Apple Security Responsibility
Notes and Tips: Apple Security Responsibility. Apple needs to address security problems with Mac OS X in a more timely way, as other Unix-system vendors do. [MacInTouch]
Why Mac's are more secure than Windows computers
Why Mac's are more secure than Windows computers. David Pogue in the N.Y. Times addresses this misconception: “Mac OS X and Linux are virus-free because they offer virus writers a much smaller “audience” than Windows — a notion that’s been much repeated in the press, most recently last week’s BusinessWeek cover story. That, as it… Continue reading Why Mac's are more secure than Windows computers
Calling All IEEE Members: Democracy Needs You
Calling All IEEE Members: Democracy Needs You. IEEE members: save democracy from a broken standards-committee! The IEEE, normally the sobersided epitome of integrity and accountability, has had one of its standards-committees jump the tracks. The people who are writing the IEEE standard for voting machines have been doing their best to rig their deliberative process… Continue reading Calling All IEEE Members: Democracy Needs You
Landline Numbers Can Go Mobile
Landline Numbers Can Go Mobile. Not only will cell-phone users soon be able to keep their phone numbers when changing carriers, but this fall, folks will also be able to convert their wired phone numbers to a cell phone. It's not clear, however, how phone companies will interpret the new rules. [Wired News]
Ask the PM
Ask the PM. Ask the PM: Jennifer Taylor, Product Manager for Dreamweaver, is participating in an offline interveiw at DMXZone… next Tuesday Bruce Lawson will collect the best questions from the forum and forward them to her for her reply, which will then be published on the site. (Posting requires membership.) [JD on MX]
Where's Central?
Where's Central?. Mike Chambers has just published an article on the Macromedia Developer Center which provides an update on Macromedia Central and talks about what folks can expect in the product after the various sneak peaks at different trade shows over the last year or so … [An Architect's View]
weblog
David “stupid networks” Isenberg has a weblog. [Hack the Planet]
Programming ColdFusion MX: Web Services
Programming ColdFusion MX: Web Services. A relatively new technology, web services seeks to provide a global object repository where applications can be assembled using using relatively simple protocols. Here is an overview of consuming, producing and security of web services. By O'Reilly. [WebReference News]
In the software industry we're always saying things like, “scheduling software is inherently difficult because it has never been written before, so it's science. It's not like the building industry, where everyone involved has done the same thing 100 times before and it's possible to make good reliable schedules. The software industry needs to become more like the mature trades with predictable schedules and budgets.”
Well, what I've learned from my first large construction project is that this is hogwash
In the software industry we're always saying things like, “scheduling software is inherently difficult because it has never been written before, so it's science. It's not like the building industry, where everyone involved has done the same thing 100 times before and it's possible to make good reliable schedules. The software industry needs to become… Continue reading
In the software industry we're always saying things like, “scheduling software is inherently difficult because it has never been written before, so it's science. It's not like the building industry, where everyone involved has done the same thing 100 times before and it's possible to make good reliable schedules. The software industry needs to become more like the mature trades with predictable schedules and budgets.”
Well, what I've learned from my first large construction project is that this is hogwash