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Lessons Learned from a Failed Business
It is important but not sufficient to create good products, you must be able to market them. The experience needed to market/sell product is not less than the experience required to develop it. Experience has no substitute to make sure of someone. A good seller in some business area is not necessarily good in other…
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Four Fantastic Phrases at Work
Let’s say you agree with me, that being happy at work is really important. That coming to work day after day, year after year, simply for the paycheck is just not enough. Hey, we spend most of our waking hours at work, so we might as well enjoy it, right? Assuming that: What can you…
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Authenticating Users with Windows Active Directory from Java
Authenticating Users with Windows Active Directory from Java Here is a sample code that works with me: ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// import java.util.*;import javax.naming.*;import javax.naming.directory.*;public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { try { Hashtable env = new Hashtable(); env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, “com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory”); env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, “LDAP://my.ldap.server:389”); //replace with your server URL/IP //only DIGEST-MD5 works with our Windows Active Directory…
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Prepare to be a Champion: Dream . Plan . Execute . Achieve!
Prepare to be a Champion: Dream . Plan . Execute . Achieve! ® Dream….BIG! The many GREAT people that we all remember were initially average people who simply had a dream! Plan…..individual and team short/long term goals for your own personal and team success. Execute….. the plan with a commitment to excellence. “Every DAY is…
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Kids and Computers, Not Just Games
I have a relative whose age is 12 years, he is very interested in computers, but he knows nothing more than playing games. He plays a lot with Windows XP, reinstalls it, explores all Windows options, and so on. He is excited and capable to do more. I got the idea of researching Web to…
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Requirements Document Template for Small Projects
Requirements document is an important document in system – hardware/software – development. There exist a well known methodology called Volere, they have a very good template, but it too big for our small project, I developed a small template that is just sufficient to us. In all cases you have to read basic info about…
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Source Code Changes Exchange Using Patches
The current process of coding – in my company – is to make peer review before committing changes to subversion – our version control system – I want to enforce code reviews, usually developers have permissions to update svn – subversion – directly, but we request them to not commit until the peer review. I…
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I want to backup my blog!
I want to make backup to my blog (), I made some research and found some alternatives. 1) blogspot have a way to backup all your blogs. Change the template to show ALL your posts in one page, then save it and just return to your old template. I did not like this way, I…
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Public-Key Cryptography with Open Source Software
Public key cryptography, also known as asymmetric cryptography, is a form of cryptography in which a user has a pair of cryptographic keys – a public key and a private key. The private key is kept secret, while the public key may be widely distributed. The keys are related mathematically, but the private key cannot…
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Agile CMMI: No Oxymoron
…CMMI (1.2) focuses on learning at the organizational level (and provides both project-based and organizationally based mechanisms for such learning). But some organizations implementing CMMI struggle to create the necessary environment and infrastructure for individual and team empowerment. TSP provides a “how to” solution consisting of team roles and other guidance that directly implement most…
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Arabic Whitepaper About Open Source
I found a nice Arabic article about open source, have a look at:http://www.freesoft.jo/The document itself is at: http://www.freesoft.jo/people/kefah/freesoftware_whitepaper_arabic.pdf Thanks to Mr. Kefah Eisa From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Sending email from the command line
In developing automated scripts that scheduled to run periodically, I need to send email from inside the script to know about the script execution status and if there is any error. Here what I did to install, configure and test an email tool. Prerequisite:– This is tested on Windows XP, sure it works on any…
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Nice Linux Console Editor, nano!
When I try to be familiar to command line, I always need a simple and good editor, of course vi is great but I always find myself unable to save the opened file or save my changes, I always forget the shortcut keys, I find a very good editor called nano. nano has all basic…
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Open Source Software For Windows
I have found a large list of open source software on Windows, look at: http://www.opensourcewindows.org/ http://www.opensourcewindows.org/page2.php Before trying to master Linux, try to taste the open source products even on your current Windows operating system. For server administrators, start using cygwin to experience the power of automating tedious tasks. There exist also tons of open…
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cygwin text and graphical consoles
cygwin can run console based programs and GUI programs like gvim, xman, and xemacs; But you have to run startx to start graphical system at first. Typically xemacs can run form the text console but gvim and xman need to run from the graphical console. In order to develop good automated shell scripts you have…
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Building Voice Infrastructure in Developing Regions
The “VoIP-4D Primer” is a free guide available in four major languages. The work is an effort to disseminate the use of telephony over the Internet in developing regions. The 40-page guide targets both technical and non-technical readers. The first part presents the essentials of telephony over the Internet. For those interested in the more…
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Ignorance is Bliss!
– Ignorance sometimes means we don’t have to worry.– Knowledge that does not help is like ignorance that does not harm.– Some doctors believe ignorance is bliss and don’t give their patients all the facts.– Ignorance of things that have no effect on our lives frees our mind to learn about things that affects us.…
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What is ONE?
ONE is a new effort by Americans to rally Americans – ONE by ONE – to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. ONE is students and ministers, punk rockers and NASCAR moms, Americans of all beliefs and every walk of life, united as ONE to help make poverty history. ONE believes that…
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cygwin can run GUI applications!
cygwin can run GUI applications! Cygwin not only run console applications but also can run GUI applications such as gvim, xman, and xemacs; But you have to run startx to start graphical system at first. Typically xemacs can run form the text console but gvim and xman need to run from the graphical console, i.e.…
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What is Open Source Software?
This is actually my answer to one of my friends who wonder, what is open source software. An excellent Arabic white paper about open source software:http://www.freesoft.jo/people/kefah/freesoftware_whitepaper_arabic.pdf Wikipedia, have have a good article about open source software, look at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_software List of open source software for Windows:http://ahm507.blogspot.com/2007/01/open-source-software-for-windows.html List of open source software packages:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_software_packages From ahm507.blogspot.com