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

 

Più Miscellanea

I have no more class sessions until February 5, and I am not ready to go clean up all of these gleanings just yet.  I want to start writing about "Situating Data," especially about character sets and codes, and also do some writing on Trustworthy Computing.  Then as inspiration strikes, I may clean up this now-lengthy compilation of materials.

ONLamp.com: Myths Open Source Developers Tell Ourselves [Dec. 11, 2003].  An useful article on myths, with good examples.  Don't know that these are sharply defined, but useful.
posted by Dennis at 12/12/2003 05:38:56 PM

 
The Official Kwiki Web Site: KwikiKwiki.  I was reading an article that spoke of Kwiki as one with great attention to installation and configuration and making it effortless.  One thing I notice right away is how clean this page is.
posted by Dennis at 12/12/2003 05:33:25 PM

 
Massive sofware engineering reform is a must: Dan Farber.  A 2003-12-06 report on the National Cyber Security Summit and what it may take to train ourselves to deliver reliable, secure code.
posted by Dennis at 12/11/2003 12:48:24 AM

 
The XML Files: A Survey of Publicly Available Web Services at Microsoft -- MSDN Magazine, December 2003.  This is an interesting article about the web services that microsoft has available for access on the Internet.  These can be used for validating WS applications and protocol stacks.  It is also a way to verify use of Microsoft's set of WS libraries and development tools.
posted by Dennis at 12/10/2003 06:13:18 PM

 
Welcome to the Content Reference Forum.  Something just mentioned in today's on-line news, that speaks of a way for people to provide content references to each other that provide for referal to licensed works.  I haven't looked for how this fits in peer-to-peer, but it support that infrastructure in an interesting way with regard to clearances and possibly royalties.
posted by Dennis at 12/10/2003 05:53:41 PM

 
Computer Research Security Centre - LSE Department of Information Systems.  This abstract is about a paper on having Certification Authorities practice what they preach.
posted by Dennis at 12/10/2003 11:07:27 AM

 
THE PLEXUS INSTITUTE.  It is an odd thing to visit a site that deals with complexity and economic systems, only to find a story about how an appreciation for the setting in which we live can provide a touching, inspiring, and satisfying grasp of life's passages.
posted by Dennis at 12/10/2003 10:52:38 AM

 
Complex Systems Management Centre - About CSMC - What are Complex Systems?.  An interesting web site about a view of systems as complex, interconnected, and with evolutionary processes not predictable from within the system itself.  Thought-provoking.
posted by Dennis at 12/10/2003 10:43:07 AM

 
CNETAsia : Printer Friendly - Gartner sees "massive disruption" to IT workers.  This article proposes that by 2007, It will be unrecognizable in that there will be no on-shore, large development efforts.  It will all be model-driven and done with small teams.
posted by Dennis at 12/8/2003 06:04:41 PM

 
Hackers Steal From Pirates, to No Good End.  So it is going to be the white hats against the hackers and their malware. Life in cyberspace gets grimmer.
posted by Dennis at 12/8/2003 06:01:47 PM

 
Enterprise Group, Ltd.: Types of Strategies.  This is an article on delivery of data warehousing, with identification of top-down, bottom-up and other implementation strategies.  A nice read turned up by classmate Michael AbuZuluf.
posted by Dennis at 12/8/2003 12:28:52 PM

 
Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing - TDWI/  This is the site of The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI). There are great resources here.
posted by Dennis at 12/8/2003 12:13:29 PM

 
UK online for business: Information Security Healthcheck.  This is a nice little survey form backed up by an in-depth survey on key information-security topics.  I took the first part and weighed in heavily on the "your information security appears to be deficient" end of the scale.  I am not going to tell you what the deficiencies are, but it is clear to me that I need to go through this one with serious attention to what matters.
posted by Dennis at 12/8/2003 11:45:21 AM

 
E-Business Information Security < E-Business Resources < UK Online for Business.  The UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) operates an information security web site.  There is also a British Standard 7799 for security, and a glossary.
posted by Dennis at 12/8/2003 11:41:24 AM

 
N I: The ten most common IT security mistakes: ZDNet Australia: News & Tech: Security.  Here's a nice article on all of the ways to convince oneself that there is no problem!
posted by Dennis at 12/8/2003 11:23:44 AM

 
IBM Education: IBM Learning Alignment: Continuous improvement through strategic uses of technology.  Targeted to learning initiatives. I notice there is a button to shape the view of the material here (Business, Executive, or IT). Cute.
posted by Dennis at 12/8/2003 08:40:22 AM

 
IBM success story on Florida Hospital.  Here's a case report on data mining that provides some insight into the value in hospital systems.  I am particularly taken by the attention to best practices in delivering in-patient care and treatment.  Dealing with a regulatory jungle (400+ item questionnaires for nursing home patients) is also a major item.
posted by Dennis at 12/8/2003 08:28:05 AM