Sunday, July 22, 2007
Links for 2007-07-22
Sometimes advice in the blogosphere is dangerous. I wonder if those demanding stronger password complexity have ever thought about the correlation between strong passwords and weak security. The harder you make something, the faster someone will write it down and store in an insecure manner. Besides, what if the password is complex yet the web site stores it in plaintext? You wouldn't know...
Maybe the better answer is to not name drop clients using your technology and instead provide ideas of how it could be used for those that aren't. For example, none of the names listed in this blog are Fortune Enterprises from the Insurance vertical. Maybe suggest how it could be best used to sell automobile insurance
It is ashame that Kathy Sierra convicted folks in the court of public opinion and then decided to hide. Maybe she needs to stop being the example of what modern women shouldn't do
Pretty cartoons for Federal Enterprise Architects
James Taylor of Fair Isaac probably has thoughts on where enterprises should draw the line in terms of letting business users do programming.
If Java, .NET, Ruby and other languages have rules engines, how come Smalltalk doesn't? I wonder if James Robertson of Cincom is a reactive product manager and does only what his customers ask or is proactive and supplies what they need?
Nicholas Carr is usually the plaque within the house of IT but has a thoughtful posting on old fat men
I suspect most of the identity community will avoid these questions
It's okay if most blogs suck, because most people are irrelevant to any one individual. I wonder what others think about my blog?
