IT Enterprise Systems and Services
Let us
change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead
of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do,
let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want
a computer to do. –Donald Knuth, author of the CS classic The Art of Computer Programming
Start by doing what is necessary,
then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
–St. Francis of Assisi
In a time of universal deceit, telling
the truth is a revolutionary act. –George Orwell
What lies behind us and what lies
ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. –Oliver
Wendell Holmes
This article discusses the importance of business rules to rounding out functional requirements and especially how to integrate business rules with requirements captured through use cases.
A tongue-in-cheek checklist for how not to manage a project. While the approach is humorous, the goal of the article is all business.
This article looks at the importance of eliminating scope creep on projects, especially in light of budgeting tightening during lean times.
Reader feedback and suggestions to a previous editorial that discuss how better IT-to-business relationships can improve the success of IT projects.
In this time of lean budgets and attention to all expenses, it is vitally important that a testing organization demonstrate their value to the business and process. This article explores some very practical concepts and measures of value for testing that appeal to the sensibilities of business folks and senior management.
This article examines techniques which can be used to reduce the complexity of black-box testing suites while maintaining their effectiveness at finding behavioral/functional problems. The focus of the article is on test automation, but the underlying techniques are generally applicable.
While emphasizing Oracle with Visual Basic, this article demonstrates some useful general principles for improving the efficiency of complex queries often necessary in reports.
We often hear about the "next big thing" in the world of optical networking equipment. But, without the fiber cable itself, optical networking wouldn't even be possible. Read this article to learn about the various types of fiber cable and how it works.
This article introduces the most basic structures of the Java language. It gives a very gentle initiation to the language for the programming novice or someone not familiar with Java.
The author of the book Managing Workplace Negativity talks about the problems of and tell-tales signs of negativity and why it often affects IT workers, particularly.
Want to improve your online interpersonal skills and develop appropriate protocol when using e-mail, etc.? This site includes the entire text of book Netiquette, a modern classic.
Overview of talk by well-known technology/telecom pundit George Gilder. Gilder gives his position on how telecom companies can succeed in the market.
Lucent scientists report that optical fiber is capable of carrying up to 100Tbps. However, some observers believe that even higher capacities are possible.
Ciena has announced equipment capable of 3.2Tbps transmission rates without the need for multiplexing of signals.
No, not the X-Files… X-Find, a handy graphical alternative to grep. It allows you to specify a file pattern and search text. However, X-Find goes one better in that it has a built-in window to display the file (text or binary) and highlight the search text. Furthermore, it displays the number of occurrences of the search text in the file.
The Windows "Send To" context (right-mouse) menu is one of the handiest features on the system. But did you know you that you can use it to create a desktop shortcut for a file? Here's how:
When you want to create a desktop
shortcut to a file or document, simply right-click on it and choose
Send To à Desktop as Shortcut.
Most people
find that the Outlook Rich Text Format (RTF) or HTML e-mail formats
serve most of their needs for regular e-mail. However, once in a while,
a more complex e-mail may be needed. In those cases, you can selectively
use MS Word as the Outlook editor. To do so, simply double-click on
the Email.oft Outlook template. A new message window will be displayed
with all of the Word features available, such as numbering and the drawing
tools. Typically, Email.oft is located in the MS Office Templates folder
(C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Templates\Outlook).
For those extra special occasions, check out some of the other templates,
including Midnight.oft and Urgent.oft.
Typically,
to sort the Inbox (or any folder) in MS Outlook using multiple columns,
you must select View | Current View | Customize Current View…
and select Sort… To quickly sort the Inbox on multiple columns,
click on the header for the first column of the sort criteria, then
hold down the <Shift> key and click on other column headings in
the order by which you wish to sort. To switch between ascending or
descending order on a secondary column simply click again (while depressing
the <Shift> key). This technique is a quick temporary alternative
to using the Sort By Sender view.
Many of the new words born of the technology industry have made it into the latest version of the arbiter of the English language: the Oxford English Dictionary.