This week a simple tutorial on how to build your own proxy, 1.5 million stolen Facebook IDs up for Sale. Why you stop chasing followers, 6 best practices for E2.0 implementations and the top 5 things Social is not. Run Your Own Free Proxy Through...
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Alzheimer Architecture
Let’s suppose for a moment that it' is 1986. And let’s suppose you are starting a new company. A company that sells products or services to customers, as most companies do. Let’s say you selling (surf) board wear. You start selling your first...
Read moreWeekly digest of week 14 2010
This week a lot of noise about the iPad, however it doesn’t save the publishing industry and there seem to be a lot of complaints about it. There is no time normalization in social media and the new SDK for the iPhone doesn’t help programming...
Read moreBeyond agile testing. Or: how to become a pro-active tester
Agile – in all it’s variations – becomes an increasingly popular process for realizing software. The roles testers and testing plays in these projects is challenging and new. Testers are no longer considered code-killers, but can play – and...
Read moreAvatar, reuse and model driven software development
Last week my daughter Sam (13), her friend Joey and I went to see the movie Avatar in 3D at the IMAX theatre in Rotterdam. Following up on the hype and reading reviews I just got curious. Especially after reading an interview with director James...
Read moreQuestions on smart use cases. Part III - Stereotypes and minimal use case specifications
Smart use cases have become a fairly straightforward requirements technique that we have introduced in many different types of projects, such as Java, .NET, BI, SOA, SAP projects. Often I receive questions on how to apply smart use cases in...
Read moreQuestions on smart use cases. Part II - The smart use case life cycle
As you might have heard from me before (endlessly), smart use cases are a fairly straightforward reqirements technique that we have introduced in many different types of projects, such as Java, .NET, BI projects apply smart use cases, but also in...
Read moreDoes Agile mean no Processes and no Governance?
There are two generally held perceptions about agile. One, that agile is a kind of anarchist model with no processes, and second, that agile means no governance. Let’s look at the first perception that agile means no processes. We can understand...
Read moreThe perfect business application
Cost is becoming an ever increasing player on the market. Total cost, not just project cost. Time-to-market is good, but time-in-market is better, so to say In the end, there are questions that need to be answered. 70% of those questions are asked...
Read moreWriting better software faster
Looking back on twenty years of software development, I think I must have spent most of that time on trying to improve both the quality and productivity of software development. Ever since I started to write small civil engineering calculation...
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