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Comment get away from CMM if you can (Score 2, Informative) 200

by Vo1t (#34356702) Attached to: What Software Specification Tools Do You Use?
Let me recommend a book : "Lean Software Strategies: Proven Techniques for Managers and Developers". It containes throrough analysis of craft, mass and lean production strategies and their reflections in software (CMM being on the mass side = already obsolete approach). If you can't abandon CMM because of market conditions, think about embracing CMM with as much lean as possible as Peter Middleton describes, and find auditors who would understand and allow you advance on CMM scale without sacrificing productivity and adding waste to your process. In terms of tools, good issue tracking system with customizable workflows is what I recommend.

Submission + - China is cheating (skunkpost.com)

Submitted by crimeandpunishment
crimeandpunishment writes: If a lazy college student gets caught using a ghost-written or plagiarized paper, he might fail the course. But if a college professor or researcher gets caught doing it, it could have far-reaching implications. That's what could happen in China....where academic cheating is so widespread, it could seriously impact China's goal of world leadership in science.
Iphone

Submission + - Adobe Advises Apple to "Go screw yourself" (theflashblog.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Apple's recent decision to restrict the languages that may be used for iPhone and iPad development has provoked some invective from Adobe's platform evangelist Lee Brimelow. He writes on TheFlashBlog, 'This has nothing to do whatsoever with bringing the Flash player to Apple’s devices. That is a separate discussion entirely. What they are saying is that they won’t allow applications onto their marketplace solely because of what language was originally used to create them. This is a frightening move that has no rational defense other than wanting tyrannical control over developers and more importantly, wanting to use developers as pawns in their crusade against Adobe. This does not just affect Adobe but also other technologies like Unity3D.' He ends his post with, 'Speaking purely for myself, I would look to make it clear what is going through my mind at the moment. Go screw yourself Apple. Comments disabled as I’m not interested in hearing from the Cupertino Comment SPAM bots.'
Iphone

Submission + - iPhone SDK prevents choice of programming language (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Ars reports that the new iPhone/iPad SDK license agreement prevents the use of any programming language other than Objective-C, C, C++ or Javascript running on WebKit. The license also states that code must directly link against the APIs and no intermediary layers are allowed and that the code must be originally written in the aforementioned languages.
Unix

Submission + - SCO vs Novell: Novell wins

Submitted by Aim Here
Aim Here writes: Breaking News: According to Novell's website, and the Salt Lake Tribune, the jury in the SCO vs Novell trial has returned a verdict: Novell owns the Unix copyrights. This also means that SCO's case against IBM must surely collapse too, and likely the now bankrupt SCO group itself. It's taken 7 years, but the US court system has eventually done the right thing...

Submission + - Novell has UNIX copyrights, SCO does not (sltrib.com)

Submitted by RichMan
RichMan writes: The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting that the jury has reached a verdict in SCO's slander of title case against Novell. Apparently SCO does not own the copyrights it accused Novell of slandering.
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  A federal jury Tuesday found that Novell Inc., and not The SCO Group, owns the copyrights to the Unix computer operating systems used by many businesses.
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Programming

Submission + - Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Ted Dziuba can't wait for NoSQL to die. Developing your app for Google-sized scale, says Dziuba, is a waste of your time. Not to mention there is no way you will get it right. The sooner your company admits this, the sooner you can get down to some real work. If real businesses like Walmart can track all of their data in SQL databases that scale just fine, Dziuba argues, surely your company can, too.

Submission + - Adobe Prefer jQuery To Flash

Submitted by tingentleman
tingentleman writes: I just got my CS5 preview invite (for April 12th) and viewing source on this slick site ( http://cs5launch.adobe.com/ ) shows that the visual wizardry comes from jQuery + Cufon rather than Flash. Do even Adobe now realise that Flash is not the best technical solution for accessible visual magic?
Databases

Submission + - Digg says yes to NoSQL, bye to MySQL

Submitted by donadony
donadony writes: After twitter, now is Digg who decided to replace MySQL and most of their infrastructure components and move away from LAMP to another architecture called NoSQL that is based in Casandra, an opensource project that develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database. Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008 and is licencied under Apache Licenses.
The reason of this move as explained by digg is that their primary motivation for moving away from MySQL was the increasing difficulty of building a high performance, write intensive, application on a data set that is growing quickly, with no end in sight. This growth has forced them into horizontal and vertical partitioning strategies that have eliminated most of the value of a relational database, while still incurring all the overhead
Displays

Companies To Invade Your Retinas As Soon As Next Year? 245

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the play-with-it-and-you'll-go-blind dept.
Engadget is one of many reporting that Brother and NEC both seem to have retina display technology in the works for release next year. Brother, at least, seems to have a fully functional prototype, while so far NEC is mostly talk. "Naturally, there are a few considerable limitations compared to more traditional displays, but the company's as yet unnamed goggles do promise to beam an 800 x 600 image directly into your retina that'll appear as a 10-centimeter wide image floating about one meter in front of them -- which is certainly no small feat, even if it may not be the most practical one. Slightly less specific, but also working on a retina display of its own is NEC, which apparently hopes to incorporate a microphone into their display and use it as a real-time translation device that would quite literally display subtitles as you talk to someone."
Government

White House Website Switches To Open Source 219

Posted by Soulskill from the what-world-is-this dept.
Falc0n writes "WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the latest version of the open-source Drupal software. Dries Buytaert reflected on this, adding: 'this is a clear sign that governments realize that Open Source does not pose additional risks compared to proprietary software, and furthermore, that by moving away from proprietary software, they are not being locked into a particular technology, and that they can benefit from the innovation that is the result of thousands of developers collaborating on Drupal.'"

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