Wednesday, January 26, 2005

VMware ships software for securing PCs. Firm starts selling tool to help customers lock down computers so people can't print, copy or transfer data unless authorized. [CNET News.com] 5:02:56 PM    comment []

The Microsoft Architects Journal 4 has just been published in PDF format. You can get it at the MSDN download center. There look to be some very interesting articles in there that I'll have to read as soon as I get a moment. Here's a quick table of contents of the articles in this edition: Choosing the Right Presentation Layer Architecture Information Bridge Framework Benchmarking a Transaction Engine Enterprise Architecture Alignment Heuristics Razorbills Next Generation Tools for OOD The first article is also online as an article, so you can read it there instead. And, the next generation tools article discusses model driven architectures (MDA). The Whitehorse toolset delivers some of what is being described there with the Distributed System Designers and the Class Designer, and the DSL (Domain Specific Language) Tools that had a preview release in Dec. But, we're discussing these issues as Software Factories rather than MDA. [Microsoft WebBlogs] http://blogs.msdn.com/PedroSilva/archive/2005/01/26/360893.aspx 5:01:00 PM    comment []

Ripe for Remixing. The iTunes music store shakes up "the album". Print-on-demand and Safari U shake up "the book". I've got a hit-list for the next things that need to be remixed. [O'Reilly Weblogs] 4:45:42 PM    comment []

IBM consultants model business services. IBM Global Services unveils service designed to help business customers rework their computing infrastructure to be more flexible and efficient. [CNET News.com] 4:44:30 PM    comment []

Blogosphere subscription trends. We've all seen the hockey-stick curve that shows the blogosphere growing like gangbusters. But I haven't seen much on subscription trends, so I took a look at the public information available in Bloglines. For a given feed you can ask Bloglines to show not just the count of subscribers, but also -- for the "public" subscribers who allow this information to be shown -- their usernames and the dates when they began subscribing. ... [Jon's Radio] 2:31:43 PM    comment []

The Iconfactory offers free system replacement icons. The Iconfactory today released its first freeware icon set for 2005. The new system replacement set ... [MacNN | The Macintosh News Network] 2:31:02 PM    comment []

Raskin Receives $2 million in start-up funding to develop RCHI. Jef Raskin, co-creator of the Macintosh and author of The Humane Interface, has received a $2 million dollar boost to his Humane Environment project (now know as RCHI). You can download an early version from the projects website, and Raskin hopes to finish the project within 18 months. Will this be a paradigm shift in user interfaces? [OSNews] 9:59:25 AM    comment []

OpenSolaris Web Site Goes Up. The source code to DTrace is now available for public download here, more info on a blog entry introducing the code here. [OSNews] 9:53:40 AM    comment []

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