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101 project management tips

Inside CRM has a list of 101 tips for being a better manager. Here are my picks for the ten best: Only promise what you can realistically deliver. Don't create deadlines that you know you can't meet. By only promising what you know you can do, you'll ...

Tags: Project Management, Milestone, Ethics, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-08-28

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Firefox 3.1 alpha 1 code freeze is next Monday

Firefox 3 has only recently shipped but the first public milestone for its successor is fast approaching.  The Mozilla team is expecting that the code freeeze for alpha 1 of Firefox 3.1, code named Shiretoko, will be next Monday and that alpha 1 be available for early adopter testing on July 25....

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Tagging, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Team, Web Browsers, Internet, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2

Sometime in August, Microsoft plans to release Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8. Yesterday, I spoke with Austin Wilson, Director of Windows Client Product Management at Microsoft, about some of the security-related changes due in this milestone, and got a preview of the changes announced today. Here are some details...

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Site, Web Browser, IE8, Microsoft Windows, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Phishing, Web Browsers, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Anti-malware blocker, cross-site scripting protections coming in IE 8

When Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 hits the Beta 2 milestone in August, the browser makeover will feature a full-fledged anti-malware blocker and new protections against some forms of cross-site scripting attacks. The existing phishing filter IE 7 has been renamed SmartScreen Filter and will include blacklist-based blocking...

Tags: XSS, Microsoft Internet Explorer, SmartScreen Filter, Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Search-ability in Flash

Last night Adobe announced that we've given a special version of the Flash Player to Google and Yahoo that will more accurately let them crawl through Flash content. Even though Google has been indexing .SWF files for a while and even been able to pull out some text, they haven't...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., Search Engine, Flash, Search, Marketing Research, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadership

Many large-scale government technology initiatives are failing due to an exodus of qualified systems engineers away from the public sector to private industry. An in-depth analysis of the problem conducted by the National Research Council reveals the considerable impact of this problem. The...

Tags: Leadership, Systems Engineering, Computer, CAD, Productivity, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-27

Microsoft Releases Hyper-V

I just received a message from Microsoft about the release of Hyper-V. It has some interesting details about platform support and availability. Here's what Microsoft had to say Tomorrow, June 26, Microsoft will reach a significant milestone for customers and partners with the release of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Intel X86, Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Hyper-V, VM, SMP, Microsoft Windows, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Mobile Firefox "Fennec" critical to maintaining Mozilla's momentum

Now that Firefox 3 has launched, the Mozilla team is hopefully after a vacation at work on the next updates, including a major mobile version. Mozilla's mobile web browser, which is under development as part of Firefox 4 platform and code named Fennec, won't launch until 2009. Still,...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Mobile, Mozilla Corp., Fennec, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-06-19

The Associated Press plays role of Metallica in Napster-esque war with bloggers

The Associated Press plays role of Metallica in Napster-esque war with bloggersHey, Jennifergood and HOT blog. Exactly what we needed :)Good Job, Jen...As a published author and a blooger of sorts myself, I am damned happy to be a part of the Internet and what it has done both professionally...

Tags: E-books, Postal Service, Metallica, e-book

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Yahoo: Does Jerry have to go?

Yahoo: Does Jerry have to go?Icahn's here, Yang is gone and Microsoft will own...Yahoo before the end of the year.RE: Yahoo: Does Jerry have to go?This guy is unbelievable to say the least! It seems that every decision Mr. Yang has made is for the benefit of Mr. Yang's ego,...

Tags: Operating systems, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yang, Does Jerry, Icahn

Discussion threads 2008-06-13

Dell's Esser: Green tech is not just about the data center (P.S. It doesn't have to cost a lot more.)

I spoke with Dell's green guru (aka Albert Esser, vice president of power and infrastructure) about two weeks ago, just before I disappeared on vacation. I hadn't gotten around to writing about that conversation yet, but today seems like a pretty good day to do so, what with the company...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Green Technology, Power Supply, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Apple's biggest threat: High expectations

Apple has notched another milestone in its iPhone international expansion by inking a deal with Softbank Mobile to bring the device to Japan "later this year." In a statement Softbank Mobile said: SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to bring...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., 3G iPhone, Com, Pacific Crest Andy Hargreaves, 3G, Cellular Phones, Apple Mac OS X, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Araxis Ketura (exe)

A different approach to project management and issue (bug/defect) tracking. Organize your work. Track time. Manage customer requests and other work issues. Schedule and deliver your team projects on time and within budget.Benefits: Accurate project schedules. Ketura predicts when work will be done and how long it will take. Designed...

Tags: Project, Team, Araxis, Ketura, Team Management, Management

Software downloads 2008-06-04

AMD makes its notebook move; Puma goes live

AMD on Wednesday unveiled its notebook microprocessor platform, formerly known as Puma, and notched a small win over rival Intel. AMD's notebook platform (AMD Turion-X2 Ultra), which aims to integrate graphics capabilities with its processors, stays off Intel's ultra mobile PC turf, but has hit the...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Notebooks, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-03

OpenSUSE 11 RC1: The Mercedes-Benz to Ubuntu's Volkswagen

2008 will be a very good vintage for community end-user Linux distributions. So far, we've seen the release of Ubuntu 8.04, which is universally considered to be  a major milestone release in usability and device compatibility, and one of the easiest distros to install. While not as widely lauded, we...

Tags: Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Volkswagen AG, GNOME, Software Update Utility, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Can Rubinius bring Ruby back?

Can Rubinius bring Ruby back?Ruby should be the next language for Google App Engine. Google should hirethese guys!!!RE: Can Rubinius bring Ruby back?I wasn't aware that Ruby had actually gone somewhere else. Last I checked the language was still adopting highly: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.htmlRE: Can Rubinius bring Ruby back?That's great news, but...

Tags: Scripting languages, Ruby, Rubinius, Ruby back

Discussion threads 2008-05-29

Can Rubinius bring Ruby back?

Can a Ruby virtual machine written in Ruby bring back excitement to the open source scripting language? Rubinius, the Ruby virtual machine Engine Yard has been promising, is finally ready, said project lead Evan Phoenix. It passed the milestone of running Ruby on Rails a week ago,...

Tags: Ruby, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-29

XenDesktop, VDI, SolidICE offer benefits but no panacea for IT managers

I am always skeptical about new technologies that "threaten" to transform the traditional PC desktop. In my 20 years following the PC industry, I've seen them all – server-based models, thin clients, application streaming technologies, hosted ASP and newer software-as-a-service models, even Linux.  I still use a...

Tags: Desktop Management, Benefit, Server, ScriptStart, Leostream, Desktops, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Topography, roadmaps and directions

Very few of us are fortunate enough to start with a clean slate when planning 2.0 business collaboration projects; depending on the size and age of your enterprise you are likely to be dealing with powerful existing and legacy systems and their associated processes and departments. Navigating...

Tags: Collaboration, Environment, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Windows 7: The information lockdown continues

Windows 7: The information lockdown continuesOnce burnedtwice shy. MS isn't going to risk the kind of PR flak that they caught over the slipped schedules, withdrawn features, etc. the last time around.My notoriously unreliable crystal ball predicts that the first anyone sees of their next platform will be when...

Tags: Operating systems, PDC 2008, Microsoft obviously, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, information lockdown, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-19