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Comment on The Folly of Password Standards by Peter H. Coffin

Peter H. Coffin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:25:24 +0000

The more specific the password requirements, the smaller the keyspace, it seems to me.

Comment on Fading Personal Data by Peter H. Coffin

Peter H. Coffin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:07:21 +0000

Random snippet sort of related to this: on a large scale, about 1% of email addresses go permanently bad per month for individual reasons, like the person has left the company, or they quit using the ISP, or they abandon an identity in favor of something else, or they quit using an address because they’ve no other resource handy to deal with the spam level. Another 0.25% to 0.5% or so go bad for organizational reasons: ISP/company bought by another finally stops forwarding addresses, or vanity domain is left to lapse, etc.

Comment on Training by Agile Training from Adept Technologies | Adept Technologies

Agile Training from Adept Technologies | Adept Technologies — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:23:38 +0000

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Comment on Time, Resources, Scope… and Quality. by Peter H. Coffin

Peter H. Coffin — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:13:13 +0000

Quality doesn’t really sit in the center of the chart, though it’s sometimes easier to draw that way. It’s off in the Z-axis; it’s its own tone in the harmony. It’s just a little too close to “Scope” in its characteristics to get talked about much, and you need to shift the pitch (for either metaphor) to pay attention to it. Go grab a 4-sider die, sight along one of the edges, label the front corner “Scope”, the back one “Quality”, and the other two “Resource” and “Time”. What do you see then? Why, the Iron Triangle staring at you. With a sloppy hidden bit. And what goes into that hidden bit? Pretty graphics. Cross-browser compatibility in web applications. A very large chunk of it is help files, documentation, and cross-reference. Better input handling. Error messages that provide more than a code that uniquely identifies where something blew up.

Now, how many software packages that were otherwise very big Triangle-wise got delivered missing some of the above?

Comment on Unit testing using in-memory databases by Keith McMillan

Keith McMillan — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:00:34 +0000

Hello Felipe,

I have a pretty good guess what’s going on. HSQL with the in-memory database creates files in the PUBLIC schema, regardless of what you tell it to use. Since you’re using annotations, it may be difficult for you to swap out what schema hibernate is using in production vs unit testing, but that’s what you need to do. If you externalize your Hibernate mappings into XML, you might have an easier time.

Good luck!
Keith

Comment on Unit testing using in-memory databases by Felipe

Felipe — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:31:45 +0000

Hey, Keith,
I’ve tried using this class you’ve created but for some reason it doesn’t seem to be creating the schema.
My create_database.sql (maybe you could post an example of create_database.sql) has a single line:
CREATE SCHEMA UM5P AUTHORIZATION DBA
My hibernate entities are annotated as the example:
@Entity
@Table(name=”PTC”,schema=”UM5P”)
public class Ptc …

Funny thing is if I use HSQLDB in file mode, and put the UM5P schema creation in the .script file generated by HSQLDB, it works fine, but I can’t seem to make it work in mem mode. Any wild guesses?

Thank you

Comment on Enabling TDD by Integrating Spring and StrutsTestCase by Gaston Acevedo

Gaston Acevedo — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:29:04 +0000

Very good post. Really what i need.
Clear, concise and good explained.

Thx

Comment on I Miss my Treo by Julia

Julia — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:57:13 +0000

Only when my Treo finally bit the dust and I had to replace it, I too have made the switch from Palm to a Blackberry. I went into Sprint and asked them what would be the best replacement for my Treo that had ease of messages and the best calendar, they suggest the PalmPixi. At first I was excited because I loved my Treo so much I thought nothing but good things of Palm. The only thing I didn’t like about my Treo was that it wasn’t compatiable with Pandora’s Internet Radio, I love that. But the Pixi did offer this feature so I wanted to upgrade.. Boy was that a mistake! I had the Pixi for not but a week and I couldn’t take it. There was too much going on and the mostly touchscreen menu was not for me, I like to be able to scroll around with a left,right,up,down. So I opp for a BlackBerry that so many of my friends had raved about. I’m still trying to adjust. I do like the apps that are offered and the navigation and themes that I never had on my Treo. But yes, the messages are scattered in 4 different places! This makes no sense to me. I do also like having the BlackBerry Messenger. But one thing I can not get over is how awful the calendar is!! I miss my Treo so much. I like having the color coded events to easily look at a month view see what colored icons I had going on that week and quickly be reminded what I had going on. I am actually amazed Blackberry has nothing similar. In fact, I don’t know that any other device has a calendar that suits my needs like the PalmTreo. I struggle with this everyday, still waiting for someone to get on this. I love my blackberry, and am growingly getting attached to it, but I still consider giving it all up just to have my calendar back.
I miss my Treo.
Does anyone know of any solutions? Or calendar options? Or should I just go back to my Treo?

Comment on I Miss my Treo by John Wirtz

John Wirtz — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:29:20 +0000

The problem with smart phones is that once you start using one brand it becomes habit. Like so many other things in life we get use to what we use regularly. In my case, I started with a basic phone and seperate pda when I switched to the Blackberry. So the BB was my first smart phone and I have become use to it. Smart phone maker’s biggest problem though was until Apple got into the game with integration and marketing, none of them pushed software beyond what was preinstalled on the device. Now everyone is playing catch up with Apple even though there are plenty of sources already out there for other devices, except Android which didn’t exist before.

I’ve tried the iphone, sidekick and treo and haven’t been impressed with any of them. The Treo seemed old but capable and wasn’t very satisfying. The Sidekick seemed like someone took the much maligned but very capable WinMo OS and put it in a toy. Finally, oy, the iphone, don’t get me started. As you mentioned the upgrade train you lock into with Apple just to get the functionality that should have been built in from the start and only to end up with a mediocre product. The only thing Apple has done right is to create an integrated app store. For me, the problem is that its integrated with itunes which I lothe. Contrary to popular belief, I’m not an Apple hater, I think they make some fairly good products. They lock you into their draconian hardware and software rules. If you deviate, they’ll happily brick the hardware you paid for. So you really don’t own your Apple products.

At least with the BB, WinMo device, Android, and Treo devices you could buy third party software without voiding your warranty. If you haven’t found it yet, try Crackberry.com for software and recommendations. They were there before RIM created App World. I know, not much help with what you need.

Comment on I Miss my Treo by Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:31:51 +0000

Unfortunately I have come to the sad conclusion that phones are no longer made for users, they are made for the people that review phones. The wow factor is more important than the usability of the phone.
I really think that there has been no better smart phone series that the Treo’s. My biggest frustration is with Palm. They did a lousy job marketing the phone to the public and showcasing all the apps that were available. I am always anoid at the fact that people seem to think that the IPhone is the only phone that can do what it does. Palm has failed to learn the lesson that Apple learned the hard way, it’s the apps that sell the phone and the customer will want the largest selection of apps, even if they don’t come from palm. I think Palm didn’t push these apps because they wouldn’t make any money from them directly. But they may have held on to more market share.
When I dropped my phone for the 150th time and finally killed it, I switched from my palm 700p to a Blackberry Storm. What a disaster. The only good feature that the Blackberries had was the e-mail push technology which is now available everywhere. What I really hated about the Blackberries is the way they lump all messages together. I would look at my phone to see I had messages then it was like an Easter egg hunt to figure out what kind of message it was, (voice, text, etc.). THEN, when you want to reply to a text message for example, the phone asks you if you want to send an; e-mail, Text message, MM message, or voice mail. If you get an e-mail and want to reply the phone asks you if you want to send an; e-mail, Text message, MM message, or voice mail. If you get a MM message and want to reply the phone asks you …well, you get the idea.
Contact management was awful and the calendar was useless. The touch screen, which requires you to use your fingers often selected the wrong text on websites or in trying to edit a message. Couple that with the slow response from touch screen and you could go mad trying to send an e-mail. Plus I had to use two hands to manipulate the phone, all that swiping made the phone more inconvenient to use.
I finally went on e-bay and purchased a 755p which was in mint condition. I have since started to use p-tunes heavily to listen to internet radio and I have added a Bluetooth GPS. I expect to be buying another off of e-bay to that I can have another back up. My only dwindling hope is that Palm will see the light and make a phone that will similar button layout as the Treo’s and can run the Palm OS emulation software that has come out. The fact that there is Palm OS emulation software to begin with ought to be a big hint to palm. I myself started on a Palm 5000, (remember those?) and have almost 20 years of contacts in my phone. Switching that over will be no easy task so I will give up my Palm OS device when they pull it out of my cold dead fingers, or until I can’t get another one on e-bay.