OSCON 2013: John Graham-Cumming, "Turing's Curse"

The wonderful John Graham-Cumming debunks some new trends in IT as quite old... nice and excellent talk.

How to recognize malware?

The best indicator if a piece of software is malware (i.e. any kind of malicious software that wants to harm you or others) is that it does NOT come with a 4-10 page disclaimer and license agreement that you actually have to scroll down and read - page by page - and accept.

If it comes with one of them, its legitimate software that actually ran through a legal department. No malware there.
If it does not come with it... be afraid, be very afraid...

Then again, if a legal department was involved with the release of software, ... be afraid as well... or even panic!

SOA: CRUD is CRAP

Nice post on Service Architecture - SOA: CRUD is CRAP.

I especially like the sentence:

"The single most depressing thing for me in IT is how many applications are really just Mainframe data processing solutions with better screens."

about beta software...

Thanks to userfriendly.org

Great SOA vendor review

Well, one might still argue about the term "SOA vendor" ... but here's an excellent rating
Service Architecture - SOA: SOA Vendor Ratings - Q1 2007

(and it is an excellent blog, btw)

What a non-event...

CXOtoday.com > News > Business > BEA, CA Ally for IAM: "BEA Systems, Inc. and CA, Inc. have announced a partnership for identity and access management (IAM) across the enterprise."

so what...

Scott Rosenberg: Dreaming in Code

Open Source conversations have a good interview by
Scott Mace with David Rosenberg about his new book
Dreaming in Code about the software development of the Chandler project.

Seems to be a good reading; I'm gonna buy it and probably report on it.
There is also a website with it.