Monday, November 05, 2007
More Links for 2007-11-05
Joe Arnold provides insights into how software development should work in large enterprises. I suspect that he is indicating that it is less about process and more about values which are missing in action in most shops where IT executives don't distiguish between management and leadership.
I wonder if HP encourages all of their products to undergo extensive secure code review and whether they use tools such as Ounce Labs, Klockwork or Coverity?
It seems as if agile methods for software development are no longer being discussed by industry analysts nor magazines such as CIO. We need to figure out how to get these demographics to resume the conversation in order to assist all those IT
I wonder if this is James Robertson hiding out from the rest of the Smalltalk community
Sorry to disagree, but I prefer the Guardian and the Punch
Words of wisdom for the blogosphere.
Indian food is so much more tasty when not made from someone from India, but from Trinidad
Dave Kearns misses the point in that enterprises should focus on the platform and not the user. If you were to ask my boss, am I still an employee, he would say yes. The issue is whether folks have syncronization strategies where as if you ask my boss what am I allowed to do, he wouldn't have a clue. In fact, I don't have a clue either which is the more important architectural consideration that enterprises need to master. Identity is overhyped.
Anil Saldhana comments on PKI and falls for the hype of PKI equals expensive software vendors. Maybe the focus should shift away from products and towards problems which will cause a different type of conversation to occur. Anyway, I wonder what his thoughts are on identity based encryption?
I wonder if Apoorv Durga would be willing to step up and start a discussion on which security standards he would like to see Documentum, Alfresco and Stellent embrace?
