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SNEEZES Around the World
This is very interesting article about sneezes in different cultures. I enjoyed it. http://www.netlaputa.ne.jp/~tokyo3/e/sneeze_e.html It is very interesting for me to find other cultures says something like Muslims in case of someone sneezed. It is something like international culture. In English, “God bless you” or “Bless you”. From ahm507.blogspot.com
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8 signs it’s time to change jobs before you get fired
This article about “8 signs it’s time to change jobs before you get fired” is interesting from the point that, these signs – from employee point of view – let him left his company. I know many development managers who suffer from turnover. This article could help them avoid making things that enforce employees to…
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Pidgin, a nice chatting tool
I really hate distractions and interrupts, but nowadays I am very busy that I begin to lose contacts with my close friends. Chatting although annoying to me but at least an initiation channel that could lead to phone calls or meetings. I found pidgin (http://www.pidgin.im/) a nice tool that can read many protocols at the…
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Move Outlook Data Files
If you sadly have to use Outlook. You should save your emails data location to a convenient place so you can easily backup and restore them. Here is a useful link: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011124801033.aspx From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Thunderbird and Firefox Profile Location
I like to have all my data at a convenient place, so I can easily backup and restore it. Nowadays email data is crucial to any person. I hate the idea of saving my valuable (I hope so) emails in some cryptic location under C:Documents and Settings. I want to put my profile on some…
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Artistic Style 1.21
http://astyle.sourceforge.net/ Artistic Style is a source code indenter, formatter, and beautifier for the C, C++, C# and Java programming languages. When indenting source code, we as programmers have a tendency to use both spaces and tab characters to create the wanted indentation. Moreover, some editors by default insert spaces instead of tabs when pressing the…
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Fully Elaborated Documents As a Completion Criteria …
In May 1988, Bary W. Bohem published an article about Spiral Model. He described the available, at this time, software models and write some of its advantages and disadvantages. I liked the following paragraph from his article. “A primary source of difficulty with the waterfall model has been its emphasis on fully elaborated documents as…
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FireFox Profiles
I access the Internet using my Laptop from work, home and at many clients sites. I always adjusting FireFox proxy settings to match my current location settings. I want to have an end to this repetitive task. I found that FireFox can have multiple profiles feature. So I can have profile for “Home” with direct…
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Software Process Improvement
In this article, the author highlights a software process improvement approach that works effectively in his opinion. Next, he will highlight the importance of having central knowledge base to store organization assets. Finally the IDEAL methodology is briefed. SPI in a nutshell: For Software Process Improvement (SPI) new comers, process improvement seems to be confusing.…
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ANT hate white space
I am trying to install Bonita workflow engine, it uses Jonas application server. Jonas requires ANT. I have ANT installed in “C:Program Filesant”. Bonita gives me very misleading error messages. After some research I got the idea to put ANT in a path without spaces. I moved ANT to be on “C:ant” and every thing…
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Still Researching for a Wiki
These are useful links for research: List of wiki software Comparison of wiki software From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Open Source Projects Metrics
Ohloh.com is a new kind of web site, it monitors open source projects, crawl their source code repositories and give you some interesting metrics. Try JSPWiki (A Java based Wiki) and you will find interesting facts like:Code Base: 65,670 LOCEstimated Effort: 16 Person YearsIt will cost you $879,389 if the average programmer salary is $55,000.…
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The Three Elements of Communication
Albert Mehrabian stated in his theory that verbal communications have 3 components:1) words,2) tone of voice and3) body language. He stated that words stands for 7%, tone of the voice is 38% and body language is 55%. Look at this example: “You are a smart man”, you may mean it or mean “you are supposed…
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Thunderbird and Calendar
I am a fan user of Thunderbird, but I was missing a calendar features. Today I am happy to find what I was dreaming of. I found addon that did more than what I wished. It also exist also a separate application for tasks and calendar if you wish. Enjoy all of these at: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/…
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Software Process Improvements. The Fastest Way!
You want process improvement. Let me tell you about the fastest way ever. Just buy that commercial package that has complete Quality System that let you achieve CMMI maturity level 2/3/4/5, whatever you want. Just copy and paste and you are almost done. What is remaining? Just enforce your team to follow the new Quality…
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Is Waterfall Still Valuable?
I wonder if Waterfall methodology still valuable. I see many companies that apply CMMI L2 is just using waterfall. Is it consistent to be a small business and still work with strict Waterfall? I think many companies are comfortable using waterfall as the artifacts required are classic and generally simpler. One complete requirements document with…
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ActiveCollab, Project Collaboration Application
http://www.activecollab.com ActiveCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool. Set up an environment where you, your team and your clients can collaborate on active projects using a set of simple, functional tools. 100% free! My experience installing, using, some advantages and disadvantages: – Very easy to install especially…
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Select the Best Wiki, Weblog, Forum, or Podcast
When I try to decide about a new open source product, I get overwhelmed by the number of choices available. Always I have no no guidance on what to choose. Today I found 5 websites that helped me to know about many alternative products and select the suitable one for my needs. Select a Wiki…
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Code Reviews Considered Hurtful!
Code Reviews Considered Hurtful, why? First, read this link from extreme programming website: http://www.extremeprogramming.org/stories/pair7.html The same principle applies to any project artifact review, whatever it is requirements document, design document or plans. What is we should stress is collaboration on the artifacts with all involved people and all people who could give feedback per their…