Else

Literary devices and literary terms literarydevices.net

You are in every situation to teach or learn. Make the effort to understand which role

you are playing at any given time and then be accountable. Heather Ross, 11/2014

The Deming Cycle - PDCA

Plan-Do-Check-Act

Dr. W. Edwards Deming, the noted quality scholar, popularized what we identify as the PDCA cycle. The Japanese quality guru, Kaoru Ishikawa , expanded the work to identify that determining objectives is a key activity during planning.

Ishikawa's enhancement is very applicable for service improvement. During the stages for planning objectives and methods, including planning for people (human factors, including organizational and cultural change - not just head count), process, technology and business management must be defined. To do the work, education and training are needed, and the changes (new and revised services) are introduced to the production environment. Moving on to check section, the impact of the changes are reviewed, and then required corrective actions are taken. The cycle is then launched again.

[source?]

MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters research.google.com

Special characters wikipedia.org

List of named special characters, such as "bang" for '!' and "bling" for '$'

FTDI chip ftdichip.com

Federal Standard 1037C

Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms, 1996 its.bldrdoc.gov

Table Mountain radio quiet zone its.bldrdoc.gov

Transaction Processing Council tpc.org

NIST prefixes for binary multiples physics.nist.gov

yes there is such a thing as a gibibyte.

the IT Skeptic itskeptic.org

Cognitive Radio - An Integrated Agent Architecture for Software Defined Radio

- crazy

A rational design process: How and why to fake it David Parnas, Paul Clements, 1986, ics.uci.edu

Risks and issues

A risk is a future event that may have an impact on project constraints (schedule, cost, scope, and quality.) A risk has a probability of occurring. We can plan for risks based on probability of occurrence and impact on the project. Risks can be avoided, mitigated, accepted, or transferred to another party.

An issue is a present problem or concern influencing triple constraints. An issue is raised when something has gone wrong and will impact the project.

A risk can become an issue, but an issue is not a risk - it has already happened.

[this is paraphrased from the original; the source is unknown]

Society for Organizational Learning solonline.org

Sharable Content Object Reference Model | SCORM wikipedia.org

SCORM 1.2, 2001

new: Tin Can API

The Public Library of Science plos.org

The Museum of HP Calculators hpmuseum.org

The 8-Step Process for Leading Change kotterinternational.com

Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States dsl.richmond.edu

zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation tech.dropbox.com

Blue ice wikipedia.org

Ice is blue for the same reason water is blue: it is a result of an overtone of an oxygen-hydrogen (O-H) bond stretch in water which absorbs light at the red end of the visible spectrum.

Why is water blue? wikipedia.org

The light turquoise blue color is caused by weak absorption in the red part of the visible spectrum.

Why is the sky blue? wikipedia.org

Rayleigh scattering wikipedia.org

Rayleigh scattering causes the blue hue of the daytime sky and the reddening of the sun at sunset.

ISA99, Industrial Automation and Control Systems Security isa.org

ISA99 wiki isa.org

ISA-62443-1-1 Terminology, concepts and models - draft isa.org

- final versions require payment; drafts are available free

Web economy bullshit generator dack.com

Stitcher's top 100 shows stitcher.com

- on-demand and talk radio

Microsoft Research research.microsoft.com

Treemaps

Treemapping wikipedia.org

Treemap history cs.umd.edu

Tree visualization with Tree-maps: A 2-d space-filling approach cs.umd.edu

Link charts

Link chart examples support.visualanalytics.com

Escape from Alcatraz photo gallery fbi.gov

The Chicago Manual of Style chicagomanualofstyle.org

100 best novels modernlibrary.com

MIT OpenCourseWare ocw.mit.edu

TV Tropes tvtropes.org

- this is movies too; it started as TV only and they did not change the name...

Figure of speech - tropes wikipedia.org

Bitcoin

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System bitcoin.org

- the original thesis paper

Bitcoin education center secondmarket.com

Bitcoin forum bitcointalk.org

SoX Sound Exchange sox.sourceforge.net

- open source command line tool for audio file conversion

SoX Sound Exchange GUI justmastering.com

- uses Excel as user interface for SoX

The Art of Worldly Wisdom, by Balthasar Gracian sacred-texts.com

Document templates

Technical note template oasis-open.org

- borrowed from OASIS

Online education

Coursera coursera.org

Creating an investment policy manual joshuakennon.com

gimp: how to remove white background acedar.blogspot.com

Open Platform 3.0 opengroup.com

Gartner 'Nexus of Forces' = IDC '3rd Platform' = Open Group 'Open Platform 3.0

- convergence of mobility, social media and social enterprise, big data, cloud computing, devices, and application architecture

FreeFormatter.com freeformatter.com

online tools for developers: formatters, validators, encoders, minifiers, converters

Remote Database Access | RDA

Remote Database Access | RDA wikipedia.org

application level protocol for database access, 1993

Remote Database Access nist.gov

Remote Database Access provides standard protocols for establishing a remote connection between a database client and a database server. The client is acting on behalf of an application program while the server is interfacing to a process that controls data transfers to and from a database. The goal is to promote the interconnection of database applications among heterogeneous environments.

[SQL Server Compact] Using Remote Database Access (RDA) technet.microsoft.com

Remote Data Access | RDA

[is this the same protocol?]

Introducing Remote Database Access technet.microsoft.com

Because of design limitations, remote data access (RDA) will be removed in a future release. If you are currently using RDA, you should consider transitioning to Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET. If you were planning to use RDA in a new application, you should instead consider merge replication or Sync Services. Note that Sync Services is available for both desktop and mobile devices.

- used here for a SQL Server Compact database for remote access to a SQL Server database

Resource Description and Access | RDA

- cataloging standard

RDA Toolkit rdatoolkit.org

Google SMS google.com

Innovation is Executive Porn informationweek.com

- funny

Software development estimation

Structured Analysis wiki - Appendix B Estimating Guidelines yourdon.com

Software Estimating Rules of Thumb compaid.com

The Mythical Man Month archive.org

Fred Brooks classic

For some years I have been successfully using the following rule of thumb for scheduling a software task:

1/3 planning

1/6 coding

1/4 component test and early system test

1/4 system test, all components in hand.

This differs from conventional scheduling in several important ways:

The fraction devoted to planning is larger than normal. Even so, it is barely enough to produce a detailed and solid specification, and not enough to include research or exploration of totally new techniques.

The half of the schedule devoted to debugging of completed code is much larger than normal.

The part that is easy to estimate, i.e., coding, is given only one-sixth of the schedule.

[this means 50% allocated to testing]

Technical Communication Body of Knowledge | TCBOK stcbok.editme.com

EverySpec everyspec.com

EverySpec provides free access to over 46,000 Military, DoD, Federal, NASA, DOE, and Government specifications, standards, handbooks, and publications.

This data warehouse includes standardization documents with the designations of MIL, MIL-STD, MIL-PRF, MIL-DTL, FED, CID, JANS, MS, AND, USAF, DID, CID, UCF, and FIPS, including their Amendments, Notices, and Supplements.

The Open Group opengroup.org

Open Group webinar recordings opengroup.org

convert Vine to animated GIF

http://www.gifvine.co/ gifvine.co

Portable applications

KeePass update instructions keepass.info

no; use the portable apps updater...

Understanding the APQC Process Classification Framework orbussoftware.com

Process frameworks are an excellent means of helping you scope your business process initiatives and they provide best practices against which to benchmark you process improvement efforts.

This paper touches briefly on the four most well-known process frameworks available (APQC, eTOM, SCOR and VRM) before focusing on the APQC Process Reference Model (PCF) and examples of how it can be applied in the context of your project or initiative

Compression

LZMA open standard 7-zip.org

Richard Schroeppel richard.schroeppel.name

Hasty pudding cipher

ASTM International astm.org

Formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

ASTM reading room astm.org

No cost, requires registration

National Archives - online publications archives.gov

MuleSoft webinars mulesoft.com

Printer Steganography

Printer steganography wikipedia.org

List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots eff.org

Electronic Freedom

Benford's Law

Why Benford's Law Works For Function Point Analysis softwaremetrics.com

Function Point Analysis training manual softwaremetrics.com

DropboxPortableAHK nionsoftware.com

Portable dropbox, does not encrypt

GNU Wget gnu.org

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

arXiv.org arxiv.org

Open access to 785,772 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics, Cornell University Library

System for Cross-domain Identity Management [Simple Cloud Identity Management] | SCIM

SCIM: System for Cross-domain Identity Management simplecloud.info

SCIM overview simplecloud.info > overview

SCIM specifications simplecloud.info > specifications

Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM) pingidentity.com

Tutorial

The Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM) specification defines a simple, RESTful protocol for identity account management operations. SCIM’s model is based upon the experience of existing schemas and SaaS deployments, with specific emphasis on simplifying development and integration, and wherever possible, applying existing authentication, authorization, and privacy mechanisms.

The Covered Call: An Income-Generating Options Strategy aaii.com

Requires AAII membership for access

A Mathematical Theory of Communication alcatel-lucent.com

Claude Shannon, 1948

- Contains the first printed use of the word 'bit' for 'binary digit' from a suggestion by J. W. Tukey

- Contains a description of the redundancy of the English language and Finnegan's Wake in particular as an extreme example of low redundancy because Joyce "enlarges the vocabulary and is alleged to achieve a compression of semantic content."

Hot new fonts myfonts.com

The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies nanotechproject.org

Blender blender.org

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

Top 100 tools for learning c4lpt.co.uk

Personal Wikis c2.com

Lists wikis that don't need servers

Windows Web App Gallery microsoft.com

Process Knowledge Initiative processknowledge.org

The Process Knowledge Initiative is a collaborative industry and academic endeavor with the sole purpose of creating an open source body of knowledge on process management.

The resultant Process Knowledge BoK (PKBoK) will be the go-to information source for process management professionals, academics and industry technology and service providers.

Process Knowledge BoK (PKBoK) bok.processknowledge.org, 404 as of 3/2012

Tomcat and Apache

If you are running Tomcat, is there any reason to run a separate instance of Apache?

Separate static content from dynamic content?

What is best practice here?

Tomcat-Apache HOWTO tomcat.apache.org

Tomcat-Apache HOWTO - Introduction tomcat.apache.org

While it is entirely possible to have Tomcat serve both your static and dynamic document provision needs, there are several reasons why you might not want want to do this. With respect to the Apache web server,

1. Tomcat is not as fast as Apache when it comes to static pages.

2. Tomcat is not as configurable as Apache.

3. Tomcat is not as robust as Apache.

4. Tomcat may not address many sites' need for functionality found only in Apache modules (e.g. Perl, PHP, etc.).

For all these reasons it is recommended that real-world sites use an industrial-strength web server, such as Apache, for serving static content, and use Tomcat as a Servlet/JSP add-on.

XPN desert island songs 2009 xpn.org

Seven free tools Windows managers shouldn’t be without techtarget.com

BlueScreenView nirsoft.net

View BSOD (blue screen) crash information stored in dump files

NirSoft nirsoft.net

Windows utilities

Virtual Volumes View | VVV sourceforge.net

VVV is an application that catalogs the content of removable volumes like CD and DVD disks for off-line searching. Folders and files can also be arranged in a single, virtual file system. Each folder of this virtual file system can contain files from many disks so you can arrange your data in a simple and logical way.

Ant renamer antp.be

Bulk file renaming utility

CamStudio sourceforge.net

Desktop screen recorder

Using Windows ReadyBoost in enterprise settings techtarget.com

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters comp-arch-letters.org

The Multi2Sim Simulation Framework multi2sim.org

A CPU-GPU Model for Heterogeneous Computing

Dependency-Tracking Trace-Based Network-on-Chip Simulation cs.utexas.edu

HOT CHIPS Symposium on High Performance Chips hotchips.org

Hot Chips hotchips.org

Conference archives