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2003-05-24System Architecture and DesignService-Oriented ArchitectureThere are predictions that SOA will dramatically alter the way that businesses develop, deploy, and maintain their systems. In a way, this is related to the apparent effort to commoditize programming and move the focus of attention on higher-leverage forms of reuse and reintegration that serve business operations. With the current downturn and major changes in the acquisition of IT services, something to look at for the future.ZapThink: XML and Web Services Research, Analysis, and Insight. Here's where the report on the impact of service-oriented architectures is posted. There is also useful information on SOA development, tools, and practices. ZDNet: Report - Web services to alter consulting. The notion is that systems-integration business will dry up once service-oriented architectures are in place. Meanwhile, there is a claimed opportunity in creating those service-oriented architectures. 2003-05-21Computer MilieuCollaboration and Coordination SystemsThis is what one might call a pregnant area. The impact is not only one of a computer application, it is also about how people, teams, communities, and enterprises can operate together using the Internet and computer technology as a medium.Social software: a new labelTCS: Tech - Social Software. A nice article on what it will take to make social software the next killer app.Quality CultureClippings related to our discussions of quality processes in the just-concluded MSC-SE course.ManageWithoutThem.com. What it is all about to have people so empowered that they are managing without management. European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions: home. A site devoted to quality of working life. What are Quality Circles. An odd little site that presents QCFI - Quality Circle Forum of India. The information on origination and dispersal of the idea is interesting. MAAW: MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTING WEB. James R. Martin's compilation at the University of South Florida. Found by classmate David Hilton. Welcome to IQD.com - HOME PAGE. The Integrated Quality Dynamics site provides information on Total Quality Management (TQM) and resources that may be useful. ISO 9001 Quality Assurance. Web site devoted to quality and quality assurance in ISO 9001 terms. They answer the question, What Is Quality Assurance? "What you need to do, to demonstrate that your product or service will satisfy your customers [my emphasis --dh:'" Route 2 Culture and Language in International Business. A nice thumbnail of all of the factors that go into effective communication, and what one must be attentive to regarding the chosen medium, language, and culture. Computing MilieuOpen Source and the Mainframe, sort ofOpen Source Software Institute An interesting initiative.Open source gets secure. An important treatment of work to gain FIPS 140-2 certification for OpenSSL and also th satisfy Common Criterial auditing for Linux systems. The general information on who the actors are, and the Open Source Software Institute. Financial Times: Computing's Dying Breed. Mainframes have demonstrated surprising resiliency, and can still be the most-economical TCO solution. Nevertheless, the problem is that the mainframe-trained IT community is rapidly approaching retirement age. Unsuspecting Computer Users Relay Spam. Interesting information about the social conditions around the current approach to hiding spam originations. ACM: Ubiquity - What's Bugging Ellen Ullman?. A great interview with the author of Close to the Machine and a new novel, The Bug. I am particularly taken with her ideas for the next novel and also her impressions of the open-source movement. System Architecture and Software DevelopmenteXtreme ProgrammingI am looking for information on eXtreme Programming in the large. I am still looking.Industrial Logic: eXtreme Programming. From the view of a company that promotes industrial XP processes for large and small organizations. Extreme Programming Roadmap. Well, sure, there would be something about eXtreme Programming on the original Wiki, now wouldn't there? Nice compilation of goodies. User interface/interaction design, writing, requirements - Sprezzatura Systems. found from a great discussion of documentation as a deliverable. Just having the definition of sprezzatura is reward enough (c'� migliore). XProgramming.com - an Extreme Programming Resource. Also very interesting. I like especially the introduction of discussion about C# and also documentation. Aramties on eXtreme Programming. A nice concentration of resources and experience traced back to the Chrysler C3 project. Extreme Rules. A page that provides the principles in a nutshell. Many of these fit into a larger picture, so the question is, who is providing the kind of over-arching management that works well with this? Extreme Programming: A Gentle Introduction.. Ah, that's it -- just use the right search engine. Now we are getting somewhere. Loads of links. Key Program Views. I am looking for where eXtreme Programming has been applied inside of larger software-engineering development activities. I want to see how scale issues are accomplished when XP is employed for small-team deliverable of integratable components. My quest is for the reflection of XP in SE risk management, requirements traceability, and system validation activities, as well as quality assurance and process quality generally. While looking, I came across this interesting way of presenting program approaches. 2003-05-19Software Architecture and DesignUI Interactivity and VarietyPanelSoft User Interface and Safety Consulting. A site devoted to embedded systems, including their UI design.The MathWorks - Product Family Overview. The home of MATLAB and SIMULINK. Interesting library and integration models for examination in terms of GUI development. Found by Norman Frisa. A Survey on Research in Graphical User Interfaces (ResearchIndex). Citeseer information on a 1996 paper. H9 itaku-kenkyu Proposal-22: A Constraint Language and System for Constructing Graphical User Interfaces. A contract research proposal written in 1997. More from Norm on GUI development and ideas. Generating Metaphors for Graphical User Interfaces. Another find by classmate Norm, the Firelily site has more on designs that may be interesting. I think that their paper on prototyping may have been cited by someone in the MSC-SE course as well. Elements of a Three-dimensional Graphical User Interface. Another find from classmate Norman, on 3D GUI prospects, from Melbourne. ISLE Home Page. Here's more rather old (1998) material on the Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise. I am not sure what happened to this operation, which was disipating when I was in Palo Alto at this same time. Pat Langley. This home page at Stanford's Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise leads to one of the papers that Norman Frisa dug up in our discussion of GUIs in the M.SC-SE course. Virtual Hand Laboratory. Another find by Norman, this is on work at the University of British Columbia. Electronic Music Interfaces. Here's an amazing find by Norman Frisa on the interface between musicians and their instruments, with the prospects for new interfaces for electronic music just part of it. A very comprehensive overview by Joseph Paradiso at the MIT Media Lab. VR Juggler - Open Source Virtual Reality - Homepage. We were discussing whether GUIs rot the mind and, more to the point, will cut people off from learning how computers work and becoming future generations of software developers (and especially software engineers). We went off in all kinds of direction, and classmate Norman, who is very pragmatic and down-to-earth in how he operates on computers, found a variety of interesting sites. Here's an interesting set of tools. General Computing MethodologyProfessionalizing Software DevelopmentWelcome to PEO website. The Professional Engineers Ontario site for the licensing of professional engineers in that Canadian province. This is in the heart of the Canadian movement concerning the restriction on use of "engineer" in software-related professional titles, and in the licensure of software engineers. A link contributed by classmate Madan.Computers That Cajole - Computerworld. There is this sense that there is something disreputable about using social engineering as a way to influence people's performance or other behaviors. At the same time, this could be used to provide people with an experience that they want, as well as with results that they want to develop themselves in being able to achieve. It would appear that a question of transparency arises. New hacking tool sees the light | CNET News.com. This article looks at what happens by disturbing circuits under a light to the point where a sandbox can be breached by provoking hadware misbehavior. Although it requires the combined ability to introduce a program into a machine and then basically have a virtual machine obey it in a way that breaches protections, it does raise the ante for allowing untrusted code onto a system under any circumstances, a problem that will impact distributed object systems that also distribute code in any way. Event-driven architecture poised for wide adoption - Computerworld. This is highly relevant to the notion of cooperating entities communicating and coordinating asynchronously to provide an emergent behavior. Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are seen to be hastening the day when event-driven architecture are ordinary. India seeks to be global R&D center. The goal is to move from sourcing inexpensive services to delivery of word-class IT technology, taking advantage of centers of research that are already there.&nbps; The prospect for developing hardware is also bein explored as an opportunity. Wiki as a CASE PlatformTWiki - A Web Based Collaboration Platform. The home page for www.twiki.org and information on the open-source Wiki implimentation.Business Is Toying With a Web Tool 2003-05-19 New York Times artilce on Wiki's and their promise to come of age. Troubling Times for ITQ&A: A 'bullish' Ed Zander on IT troubles, trends - Computerworld. A slightly different take from the former president of Sun. The emphasis on delivering ROI is a common feature though.Tarnished image: The state of IT credibility - Computerworld. Here's an interesting article on the state of IT and the experience in those places where IT is highly functional in an organization. Outsourcing can be a great factor in IT success, accompanied by rigorous business practices. TechRepublic - Hours on the job: More is not always better An interesting article on the cost of consultant's over-extending themselves not being a demonstration of dedication.
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