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| 09 Oct 2008 |
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Transitioning to agile in the middle of a project
(StickyMinds.com)
Johanna Rothman details a potential survival guide for any project manager and team transitioning to agile in the middle of a project. |
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Practical defense in depth
(CrossTalk)
Microsoft's Michael Howard outlines some of the practical defensive measurements in use at Microsoft required by the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). |
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Outsourced testing: Friend or foe?
(Methods & Tools)
Outsourced testing offers many benefits, but it does take time and effort to do it successfully. |
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Help your people escape meeting hell
(PM Student)
Project managers need to make sure team members spend only as much time as needed in meetings. They, like you, have work to do. |
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| 08 Oct 2008 |
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Suggestions for scaling agile
EXCLUSIVE!
Scott Ambler and Damon Pool recommend practices to help better scale agile development. |
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| 07 Oct 2008 |
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Iron Man release brings down BD-Live service
(Security and the Net)
Following the release of the Blu-ray version of Iron Man on Oct 1, Paramount's BD-Live servers were brought down completely by the popularity of the disc. |
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Long-term problems at pioneer Cerner smartcard site revealed
(ComputerWeekly)
The first hospital in England to install a smartcard-based Cerner system under the health service's IT modernization scheme faces indefinite, multiple problems, according to an int... |
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Was Forever 21 wrongly certified PCI compliant?
(SC Magazine)
The case of Forever 21, which recently had nearly 100,000 credit card records stolen, shows that being deemed PCI compliant does not always mean one is secure. |
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"If Microsoft is so good at testing, why does your software suck?"
(James Whittaker on Test)
James Whittaker, a software architect at Microsoft, explains why Microsoft software has flaws and what its testers need to do. |
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Seven habits for writing secure PHP applications
(IBM developerWorks)
Security in a PHP application includes remote and local security concerns. Discover the habits PHP developers should get into to implement Web applications that have both characte... |
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Tester to look for the big picture in an Agile project
(Ainars Galvans's blog)
Ainars Galvans explains how he approaches agile projects and why he thinks it is the right way. |
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Questioning the value of certification
(James Bach's Blog)
James Bach describes an encounter with a representative of ASTQB, and other testers share their thoughts about the organization and certification. |
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Countermeasures to e-voting security flaws
EXCLUSIVE!
Election security researcher Eric Lazarus and computer security expert Steven Spoonamore explain what can be done to eliminate e-voting security flaws. |
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| 06 Oct 2008 |
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A software quality crisis is brewing
EXCLUSIVE!
A large number of companies reportedly have little regard for the quality of their software. This must change, says Colin Armitage. |
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E-voting machines still vulnerable in 2008
EXCLUSIVE!
Security researchers have concluded that e-voting machines are vulnerable to serious attacks. However, safeguards can be enacted to offset these risks. |
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| 02 Oct 2008 |
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The Ajax Experience 1: Google Chrome shakes up the browser firmament
(SearchSOA.com)
Responsiveness of Ajax apps can only improve as browsers get faster. Google's shiny new Chrome browser is just one of several in a very active browser segment. The ins and outs of ... |
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Amazon puts Windows on Elastic Compute Cloud, thrills e-commerce VARs
(SearchITChannel.com)
Microsoft-aligned e-commerce VARs may now get to deploy in Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud. |
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At The Ajax Experience 2 Continued: Browser competition moves Web applications forward
(SearchSOA.com)
The Ajax landscape continues to be a place of many frameworks, but several of these library frameworks seem to have gained ground in terms of general acceptance. They are also begi... |
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CSRF flaws found on major websites
(Dark Reading)
Researchers from Princeton University revealed their discovery of four major websites susceptible to the cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack. Three of the sites have since fix... |
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Hack-and-tell student quits school, awaits trial
(Security Focus)
The 20-year-old student who allegedly hacked Carleton University's email system refused last week to agree to penalties. Instead, he quit school and now awaits his trial on compute... |
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Attention developers: Your SESSIONIDs are showing
(The Register)
Protecting passwords is important, but do you take the same care with your SESSIONIDs? You should. |
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New XP practice: Actually doing it
(Jason Gorman's Blog)
Don't just say you're doing agile development; actually do it. |
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Twenty testing tips you should read before testing an application
(Software Testing Help)
Many testing practices are learned through experience, but there's no reason why you can't learn them before you start testing. |
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