<$BlogItemTitle$> Welcome to Orcmid's Lair, the playground for family connections, pastimes, and scholarly vocation -- the collected professional and recreational work of Dennis E. Hamilton

 
Security in the Microsoft .NET Framework.  Coverage of the security tapestry that provides useful concepts and descriptions in appraising any security arrangement.
posted by Dennis at Friday, March 07, 2003

 
Adelard: Standards and guidelines.  A source on guidelines and standards that apply to software development.  A nice find by classmate Olive McKenzie.
posted by Dennis at Thursday, March 06, 2003

 
CS 2511: Lecture Notes.  Tim Colburn's notes on CS 2511: Software Analysis and Design, at the University of Minnesota.  More useful material for the upcoming Software Engineering course.  Fascinating that the A* Search algorithm is featured.  I'll have to take a look at that. A link provided by Kimberly Watson in her electronic lecture notes for the on-line Computer Structures course.
posted by Dennis at Thursday, March 06, 2003

 
Systems Analysis Interesting Web Sites List.  A set of links on Systems Analysis and related topics, including Software Engineering.  Something to hold onto for the Software Engineering course that begins in two weeks.
posted by Dennis at Thursday, March 06, 2003

 
The Global Grid Forum.  The GGF web site is not quite ready.  Check back later.
posted by Dennis at Wednesday, March 05, 2003

 
DRMAA WG: Distributed Resource Management Application API Working Group  The DRMAA development group.  The specification is available as a PDF.  The Sun reference-implementation and reference-engine implementation site is focused on Unix solutiosn.  We will have to wait and see what else emerges.
posted by Dennis at Wednesday, March 05, 2003

 
Grid Engine Open Source Project.  This project is co-sponsored by Sun and the code is available under the Sun Industry Standards Source License.  When DRMAA reaches an appropriate level of approval, a compliant reference implementation will be developed here.
posted by Dennis at Wednesday, March 05, 2003

 
ACM: Ubiquity - Information Access on the Wide Open Web.  An interview with James Michalko of RLG (originally the Research Library Group) and how cultural-memory institutions such as libraries, museums, and archives are struggling with providing access.

Interesting sidelight: the card catalog has gone the way of the punched card.  They aren't being printed any more.  It is on-line catalogs now, and only if they were searchable by Internet engines!
posted by Dennis at Wednesday, March 05, 2003

 

Systems Architecture

Software Engineering and Development

Development methodologies

posted by Dennis at Wednesday, March 05, 2003

 
Design Corner: Technology and Intimacy - a tribute to IM from the voice of this customer.  More on community through connectivity.  I sense a theme.  Also from Gerrit on CoWorking.
posted by Dennis at Tuesday, March 04, 2003

 
Joel on Software - Painless Software Management.  Joel was cited by Geritt on the CoWorking list for an article with an interesting observation on social engineering via software (Building Communities with Software). The articles are fascinating, as is the view of software management as centered around bug tracking and feature requests.  A place to watch for several reasons.
posted by Dennis at Tuesday, March 04, 2003

 
Joel on Software - Strategy Letter V.  This is about the basic principle of commoditizing your product's complements, and how it works in practice.  It also explains to me why IBM always wanted software to be free and resisted intellectual property coverage for software.  When some court rulings and intellectual-property regulations went otherwise, IBM responded with appropriate self-interest.  And now they are busily making software free again, thanks to Sun!  And you can see why IBM and Microsoft (which is busily working to make hardware free) were on a collision course from the beginning.  Nice article.  I'm subscribing to the newsletter.
posted by Dennis at Tuesday, March 04, 2003

 

Computer Science

Logic and Computation

The Calculus of Structures.  Alessio Guglielmi's page on his area of research in logic.
posted by Dennis at Tuesday, March 04, 2003

 
ProofTheory.ORG.  A site by Alessio Guglielmi for people interested in Proof Theory.  An interesting way to start a new site.  the Frog is worth the visit.
posted by Dennis at Tuesday, March 04, 2003

 
EWSCS 2003/EATTK 2003: Patrick Cousot, Abstract.  The Cousot seminar is an Introduction to Abstract Interpretation.  Again, there are links to background materials and to further materials via the lecturer's web site.
posted by Dennis at Monday, March 03, 2003

 
EWSCS 2003/EATTK 2003: Gregory Chaitin, Abstract.  Chaitin has pulled together a nice seminar on Algorithmic Information Theory, with good background materials and links to his information elsewhere.
posted by Dennis at Monday, March 03, 2003

 
EWSCS 2003/EATTK 2003: Home page.  The Estonian Winter School in Computer Science (EWSCS) is being held now in Palmse, Estonia.
posted by Dennis at Monday, March 03, 2003

 

Systems Architecture

Architectural Frameworks

TOGAF 7 Certification.  The Open Group Architectural Framework (TOGAF) is at Version 7 and there is now a certification process for it.  Certification is applicable to tools, training, architects, and other professional services.
posted by Dennis at Monday, March 03, 2003

 

Computer Milieu

Information Technology Industry

Near-shore and off-shore trends

Panel Advises U.S. IT Pros To Consider Changing Roles - Computerworld.  Reporting on a September 2002 Outsourcing conference.  All of the suggestions are for domestic IT workers to stop programming and move up the food chain.
posted by Dennis at Monday, March 03, 2003

 
Big shift in IT jobs to outsourcing predicted - Computerworld.  Prediction is replacement of 35-40% of US and Canadian IT workers by contractors, consultants, offshore technicians and part-time workers by 2005.  It is based mainly on ideas of affordability and the prospect of cutting costs in half.  Not everyone intends to outsource or off-shore their entire IT operation, as some find they can do it better themselves with supplemental resources from outside.
posted by Dennis at Monday, March 03, 2003

 

Collaboration and Groupware

Electronic Document Management

Idea Group Publishing: Integrative Document and Content Management - Strategies for Exploiting Enterprise Knowledge.  New book by Len Asprey and Michael Middleton.

Why content management software hasn't worked: March 03, 2003 issue of New Thinking by Gerry McGovern.  Hmm, important words.
posted by Dennis at Monday, March 03, 2003

 

Systems Architecture

Software Engineering and Development

Development methodologies

Builder.com: Large Systems Development -- Points to Consider.  More on DSDM, this time in approaching large systems projects. A 2003-01-28 article by Scott Robinson.
posted by Dennis at Monday, March 03, 2003

 
Object Mentor - Extreme Programming at the Speed of Change.  A source of information on the work of Robert C. Martin.
posted by Dennis at Monday, March 03, 2003

 
Object-Oriented Design Metrics Ensure Robust Software.  Introduces some structural metrics about objects that have to do with abstractnesss and stability. A 2003-01-06 Builder.com article by Kirk Knoernschild.
posted by Dennis at Monday, March 03, 2003

 

Cyberspace

Orbital Junk

Dealing with Spam

I'm one of those people who believe that Spam must be dealt with at the edges.  There is no easy way to provide a gateway filter that satisifes all requirements or that won't be subverted more quickly than it can be updated.  There must be a way to move it to the leaves and to take the profit incentive out of it for spammers.  Meanwhile, this does make on-line-only e-mail services more difficult to deal with, unless they open up APIs or other avenues for controlled access by the recipient.

Wired News: Net Gurus Rally Anti-Spam Forces.  The Internet Research Task Force (a companion of the IETF) has launched an Anti-Spam Research Group. It will meet for the first time at March's IETF meeting in San Francisco.  I think this is promising.  I don't expect any kind of centralized or hosted solution, but an edge solution.  This article suggests that there is going to be emphasis on consent-based processes.  That is intriguing.
posted by Dennis at Sunday, March 02, 2003