- Application Platform Strategies Blog: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services – "SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM, SaaS, Cloud Computing, and all other architectural approaches that depend on “services”."
- has_many :through – Agile git and the story branch pattern – "I've been using git for source code management for over a year now and I'm totally hooked. I won't rave about all the usual reasons WhyGitIsBetterThanX since it's been done already. Instead, I'm going to share how I use git for easy agile development."
- InfoQ: Difference Between Internal and External Release – "Traditionally, software release is considered to be a handshake between engineering and business. Engineering passes on the tested code to business, which in turn promotes it to the market, thereby completing the cycle. However, with Agile, software release could be bucketed into two categories of internal and external releases. This helps in creating a loose coupling between the two. Internal releases are made by engineering and business has the option of using one of them as an external release."
- Bringing Macs into business: Real-life IT stories | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2009-01-06 | By Leon Erlanger – "A perfect example is virtualization provider Citrix Systems, which has instituted Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC), a program that lets employees choose their own laptop computer, which they can use for both work and play. "We wanted to give employees the opportunity to use the device they're most comfortable with," says CIO Paul Martine. More than a third have chosen Macs. (IBM has a similar initiative.)
Martine estimates that the traditional IT procurement, imaging, and tracking process costs Citrix about $2,500 to $2,600 every three years, so under the BYOC program, Citrix IT gives each participant a $2,100 stipend to get whatever system he or she wants. And IT has no problem if users spend more than the stipend — from the users' budget, of course — to get their preferred systems. " – Very "Semler-eqsque"
- Dr Nic » Using Git within a project (forking around) – Description of collaboration with multiple repositories using git.
- Wincent Colaiuta's weblog: A look back: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds – "I just stumbled across a fascinating mailing list thread in which there's a fairly nasty exchange between two open source poster children, Bram Cohen (of BitTorrent fame, but in this case writing in his capacity as Codeville developer) and Linus Torvalds (of Linux fame, original author of Git)."
- Coding Horror: Software Branching and Parallel Universes – "Source control is the very bedrock of software development. Without some sort of version control system in place, you can't reasonably call yourself a software engineer. If you're using a source control system of any kind, you're versioning files almost by definition. The concept of versioning is deeply embedded in every source control system. You can't avoid it. "
- » BNN On The Radio – The (Un)Solved Double Homicide Of Ronald Schraff And Patricia Freeman – Blogger News Network – "I managed to get Paul Scharff, Holly Hager, and author Dennis Griffin to join me on the radio. Feeling slightly out numbered I dragged my good friend Mondo from DBKP.com into the fray."
- Top 500 worst passwords – Boing Boing – Boing Boing posts the top 500 worst passwords of all time. Take note and if you're using one of these – change it!
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