"The Dark Side of the Internet" Lecture, Tuesday, June 24th at 6PM in Rochester NY
19 Jun 2008 7:23pm GMT On Tuesday, June 24, at 6:00 pm, the BlueTie Unlimited Bandwidth Lecture Series will host Mr. Scott Forbes as our guest lecturer. This lecture will deal with the prevention of the dangers found on the Internet including topics such as; SPAM/Chain Letters,Virus/hackers, Hoax/Urban Legends, Identity theft, cyber-terrorism, cyber-bullies, and ebay/internet scams. Mr. Forbes has over 30 years experience in the Information Technology field and currently teaches IT at Nazareth College where he...
Sun Snaps Up Database Firm, MySQL
17 Jan 2008 1:25pm GMT "Sun Microsystems elbowed into the enterprise database market Wednesday with the announcement of a proposed $1 billion acquisition of MySQL, an open-source database software company." For more see, the Forbes article. You know, one thing that MySQL buys Sun is experience in making money from GPL software. Now that Java is Sun's ticker symbol, perhaps they are ready to create more Java revenue. Maybe it's not about becoming a "database" company, but about becoming a "GPL" company.
Eight Habits of Highly Effective Programmers (5-8)
13 Aug 2007 2:20pm GMT Last time, we covered habits 1-4: Estimate (Be Proactive), Test-First (Begin with the End in Mind), Iterate (Put First Things First), and Narrate (Seek first to understand, and then to be understood). Refine (Think Win/Win) Stable requirements are the holy grail of software development. If we do pursue the myth of stable requirements, clients and developers both lose. We may ship what the requirements describe, but we probably won't ship what the client really wants and needs. When...
Eight Habits of Highly Effective Programmers
1 Aug 2007 11:07am GMT Next to the gospel, my favorite self-help book is the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. The Habits apply to any endeavor, and I like to say that the Seven Habits is the first book any novice programmer should read. To help underscore why, here's my humble homage to brother Steven Covey: The Eight Habits of Highly Effective Programmers. Estimate (or Be Proactive) Programmers invent the future. It's often hard for us to know how long something will take, because, often, we've never...
How many techs does a web dev use?
22 Apr 2007 1:00pm GMT Sofware engineer might be the best job in America, but when you tally them up, most web application developers still need to use, on a regular basis, a stunning array of technologies. Desktop operating system Telnet or Remote Desktop Server operating system Email Web Browser Internet Relay Chat or Instant Messenger An IDE (Eclipse, Visual Studio, Aptana) or programmers editor Image editor HTML CSS JavaScript DOM HTTP HTTPS XHR (XMLHttpRequest) Cookies POP / SMTP ...