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By jettro, on November 30th, 2008
Again a blog post about the tools I use on the mac. I have written about this before and therefore I have decided to create a separate page with a list of all the tools. That way you can find the tools a lot quicker. This post focusses on new tools I have found. You can find the page “Mac osx tools” at the top of the screen.
 The first tool I want to talk about is a nice utility that can create applications out of website. With Fluid you take a url, give it an icon and create an application. This application can have it’s own links and preferences. Looks nice and it comes with some advantages. You can place it on your dashboard. It has it’s own icon when going through you apps with command-tab. Very easy interface and free to use.
Find out about more tools by clicking on more
Continue reading Mac osx killer apps III
By jettro, on November 18th, 2008
I have reached a new Milestone. More than three years ago I blogged about a framework called Rome. This is a framework that enables you to create Rss feeds without to much hassle. I found the framework and created a base class that was put into springmodules. This blogpost Creating-an-rss-feed-with-spring-and-Rome explains what I have [...]
By freddie, on November 16th, 2008
Ben his article “Consultancy” != “Cover your ass” is all about ethics and “How to Help your Customer in the Best Possible Way“. Recently, but also quite often in the past, I was involved in RFI & RFP processes and i can say, I was good at it. Master in discovering the hot buttons [...]
By jettro, on November 15th, 2008
This is a short post, still I want to give it a little bit of attention. A while a go I have written an article about flex and security for Adobe. It is published on the developer network. If you want to read it, you can find it here : Integrating Flex, BlazeDS, [...]
By Ben, on November 15th, 2008
As you might have deduced from some of my previous blog entries, I work as a software engineer for a large consulting firm. That firm works on a project basis, in which personnel works at the client site rather than from a central office. As a result I have quite a bit of contact with our customers; I talk to other developers (who work for the client) to cooperate on development; to architects to talk about software design and the IT landscape; and from time to time to the business for requirements analysis and test coordination. I’ve been doing this for a couple of years now and have developed a style of working based on full honesty and willingness to cooperate as much as I can with whomever I am talking to. I’ve found this to be a style that gets good overall results. I’ve had compliments on my way of working from almost every manager I’ve reported to and it has gotten me a number of promotions.
Some consultants have a different way of working. Some consultans feel that the primary concern of the consultant is to deliver “on time and within budget”. Which means that “managing expectations” and “limiting the scope” and “preventing scope creep” are their primary concern rather than weighing the needs of the customer. For example, I recently had a minor disagreement with a colleague from my firm who sees things differently than I do. Some days ago he was in late, so he missed a meeting we were supposed to have with a team we are working with on a project for the client (referred to commonly as “the business”). The business had come to them complaining very vociferously about response times in our common software. The other team (led directly by people working for the business) had come up with some ideas for improving the response times and asked us (i.e. me) if we could investigate the feasibility of one of the ideas and do an estimate for the implementation. We both agreed that as ideas go, this one was horrible — but we both saw the necessity. So I agreed to investigate on our side and do an estimate, under the understanding that the business architects and this colleague should all agree to the solution before implementing.
The colleague didn’t agree with my course of action. He felt I shouldn’t even have agreed to the investigation. It might lead to extra work on our side and at least discussions. Undesirable. Which left me wondering: what the hell are we doing here?
Continue reading “Consultancy” != “Cover your ass”
By jettro, on November 14th, 2008
Last week I was at the NLJug J-Fall. This is a conference for Java developers organized in the name of the Dutch Java Users Group. One of the keynotes was given by Reginald Hutcherson from Sun. He talked about Sun and of course also about making Java and many related products open source. He explained why this was very good. Since we all love free software. This was obviously a comment with a humorous undertone. Yet there are still many people who truly believe open source is just free software. What is really free in this context? Like many others I am think that open source software is not free.
Read on to learn why
Continue reading Open source as in free
By freddie, on November 5th, 2008
Although initially sceptic I have decided after checking with Jettro to put the press release also on our Gridshore blog. I can not deny that we have around 400 to 500 hits a day, which is more than most sites can tell. The Whitepaper is in Dutch, it covers a specific Dutch topic and is only of interest for people that have to do with certain types of Contracts that can be sent and signed digitally when a new Dutch law is approved. So think twice, if you want to sign-up for the whitepaper, i am going to contact you  .
Amsterdam, 6 november 2008 – ISIS Papyrus een wereldwijde organisatie met 16 kantoren waaronder Nederland presenteert een nieuwe informatieve Whitepaper.
 Bedrijfsleven en burgers kunnen naar verwachting al op 1 januari 2009 kiezen voor een digitale verzekeringspolis in plaats van een papieren polis. Het wetsvoorstel dat hiervoor moet zorgen wordt naar verwachting in de 2e week van November 2008 door de kamer behandeld. De business case voor de digitale polis is vanuit het oogpunt van kostenbesparing snel gemaakt. Door het nagenoeg wegvallen van de kosten die gemoeid zijn met het maken en verzenden is het mogelijk de investering in maanden terug te verdienen. Besparingen van 1 miljoen euro per jaar die oplopen tot ettelijke miljoenen per jaar zijn niet uit te sluiten. Besparingen die gehaald kunnen worden in de processen rondom inkomende en uitgaande bedrijfscommunicatie.
De communicatie via Internet in handen van IT, maar uw Business verantwoordelijk voor communicatie met de klant?
Met ISIS Papyrus slecht u deze barrière. U geeft uw afdelingen de regie over hun communicatie. U opent nieuwe mogelijkheden via nieuwe communicatiekanalen. U kunt blijven voldoen aan de hogere eisen die aan u worden gesteld. De digitale polis is dan ook veel meer dan een PDF document en de tijd dringt. Onder de vlag van Sharing Experience™ zal ISIS Papyrus haar kennis en ervaring op het terrein van bedrijfscommunicatie en processen met u delen. In het bijzonder zullen we in deze Whitepaper stilstaan bij het wetsvoorstel en zullen we uitleggen hoe met ISIS Papyrus de verschillende eisen gerealiseerd kunnen worden waarbij de business weer de regie krijgt over het proces en de inhoud.
U kunt de Whitepaper aanvragen op http://www.isis-papyrus.com/digitalepolis
Continue reading ISIS Papyrus presenteert Whitepaper De Digitale Polis
By Ben, on November 5th, 2008
 On November 4, 2008 a great wish came true for most of the United States and the rest of the world: a great alliance of liberals, progressives, new voters, young voters, men, women, blacks, hispanics and people who wanted change in general rose up and dropkicked George W. Bush and his neoconservative cronies out of power in Washington D.C.
So now it is November 5. It’s the morning after and instead of being just the junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama is now the president-elect of the United States. Which means that the time has finally come for those of us who cannot vote to start thinking about what we can expect in the way of change. Of course we all know about the big things that have been central themes in the campaign, like the economy and the war in Iraq. But for us who work in the technology sector it is also interesting to wonder what changes might be on store.
Now, I am not a real political pundit. So I might be talking out of my ass in the rest of this article. But nevertheless what follows is, in no particular order, the topics that I think will be interesting to watch in the next few years in the United States under new management.
Continue reading Yes We Can….the day after
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