http://www.tigersi.com/index.php Type description here... en-us Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:52:24 -0700 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:52:24 -0700 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss FURPS is an acronym representing a model for classifying software quality attributes ( functional &amp; non-functional requirements ): F unctionality - Feature set, Capabilities, Generality, Security U sability - Human factors, Aesthetics, Consistency, Documentation R eliability - Frequency/severity of failure, Recoverability, Predictability, Accuracy, Mean time to failure P erformance - Speed, Efficiency, Resource consumption, Throughput, Response time S upportability - Testability, Extensibility, Adaptability, Maintainability, Compatibility, Configurability, Serviceability, Installability, Localizability, Portability <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1283195016 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1283195016&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1283195016 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:03:36 -0700 Great article on user interfaces here .<br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1274288303 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1274288303&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1274288303 Wed, 19 May 2010 09:58:23 -0700 Assume your visual modeling tool will generate great code for you, and hire a bunch of junior college students to handle coding. Ignore the analysis and design models you have produced, write the code, and reverse-engineer all the code you've written into an as-built object mdoel. Take a team of 20 or so VB programmers, hand them a C++ compiler and visual modeling tool, and leave them to their own devices. ... <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1274119376 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1274119376&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1274119376 Mon, 17 May 2010 11:02:56 -0700 There should be at least one test case in place to verify each requirement. The detailed design, as reflected in your sequence diagrams, should be defended against the use case text as part of design review. The text of each use case "contract" must appear on a sequence diagram so that the development team is constantly reminded of the "contractual requirements" they are working against as they design. The team ... <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1274118936 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1274118936&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1274118936 Mon, 17 May 2010 10:55:36 -0700 Sometimes information is too complicated, especially political information. This link shows how proper visualization can illuminate and clarify. &nbsp; A Left and Right world <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1256156706 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1256156706&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1256156706 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:25:06 -0700 IT pros would prefer to make a good decision than to get credit for it. What will make them seek credit is the danger that a member of the group or management who is dangerous to the process might receive the credit for the work instead. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137708/Opinion_The_unspoken_truth_about_managing_geeks?taxonomyId=14&amp;pageNumber=1 &nbsp; <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1252626247 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1252626247&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1252626247 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:44:07 -0700 &nbsp; Check out this amazing video of a new image resizing technique. Rather than just cropping or scaling, this technique determines the least valuable information in a picture and removes it, or adds in data at the elast valuable location allowing you to extend a picture. You can also mark an area as not valuable and erase people! <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1252626155 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1252626155&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1252626155 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:42:35 -0700 Here is handy one liners to either enable or disable triggers in TSQL: &nbsp; sp_msforeachtable “ALTER TABLE ? DISABLE TRIGGER all” To enable all triggers, you can use following statement sp_msforeachtable “ALTER TABLE ? ENABLE TRIGGER all” <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1247172556 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1247172556&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1247172556 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:49:16 -0700 Of all the endeavors we humans are now engaged in, perhaps the grandest of them all is the steady weaving together of our lives, minds, and artifacts into a global scale network. This great work has been going on for decades, but recently our ability to connect has accelerated. Two brand-new technological achievements-- <THE div works. &nbsp; I wish I wrote this. I didn't, but it's profoundly true. It came up in one of my RSS subscriptions ... <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1232760584 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1232760584&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1232760584 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:02:58 -0700 I know its late, but I wanted to share this site. This sculpture was done for burning man in 2007. I still admire it after almost 2 years. Kudos to Kate Raudenbush. Check her web site. http://www.kateraudenbush.com . &nbsp; <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1232416414 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1232416414&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1232416414 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:00:34 -0700 I don't know about you, but I always like having cheat sheets about for the myriad of tasks I do each day. Here a link to a site that has quite a few useful cheat sheets. <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1231790879 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1231790879&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1231790879 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:07:59 -0700 I'm going through my day like I usually do, sifting through Amazon material my project needs to get to our end point and I find that the book I i need is only in Kindle format. I put down my pen for a moment, because I'm momentarily stunned. All the pundits said this device wasn't worth the plastic that was used to make it. Besides who wants to read the electronic version of the New ... <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1231446395 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1231446395&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1231446395 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:26:35 -0700 Totally insane things to do, but fun to watch. &nbsp; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttz5oPpF1Js&amp;NR=1 &nbsp; &nbsp; <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1230317035 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1230317035&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1230317035 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:44:32 -0700 I found this great post on business plans: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/business-plan-wont-sit-shelf/ &nbsp; <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1229630539 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1229630539&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1229630539 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:02:19 -0700 Crystal reports have been a part of my development tool pack for most of my career. It's also been hodge-ponged forever within the Vistual Studio environment and out side. So if&nbsp;you create a report in the standalone designer, you won’t be able to work with it in the embedded designer in Visual Studio. Ack! &nbsp; If that's not enough for you to rebel then consider this. One of the improvements touted on the website is ... <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1228260557 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1228260557&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1228260557 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:03:40 -0700 Songs, such as Ku'u Home O&nbsp; Kahalu'u, lamented the loss of place, specifically Maoli places with the contagion of&nbsp; development.&nbsp; Ku'u Home O Kahalu'u Composed by Jerry Santos &nbsp; I remember days when we were younger, we used to catch 'o'opu in the mountain stream 'round the Ko'olau hills we'd ride on horseback, so long ago it seems it was a dream Last night I dreamt I was returning, and my heart called out to you But I fear you ... <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1228259843 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1228259843&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1228259843 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:51:49 -0700 Here is an iconset with&nbsp;consistent style and a quite glossy look. Included are some of the main Social Media Icons such as: Design Float, Digg, Delicious, Furl, Technorati, Flickr, Stumble Upon, and Twitter. &nbsp; http://wefunction.com/2008/07/function-free-icon-set <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1226458459 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1226458459&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1226458459 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:03:49 -0700 Many people are under the illusion that more is better when building a web page. That I only have a few moments of my visitors attention, so I better cram as much on the page that I can. unfortunately this has the opposite effect, the visitor gets overwhelmed, looses focus and interest in anything you say and moves on to something else. &nbsp; Simple designs let the visitor quickly discover what they need and focuses ... <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1225657320 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1225657320&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1225657320 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:04:00 -0700 I was pleasantly surprised this morning when a colleague forwarded my the annoucement that Microsoft had adopted jQuery and plan to keep it intact under it's MIT license. I hope this is a harbinger to Microsoft supporting open source more in the future. It's been difficult as a developer having to support the Microsoft flavor of many open source items like NUnit. Here's a link to the article .<br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1222711024 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1222711024&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1222711024 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:04:49 -0700 I ran across a blog entry posing this question asking, "What is great content"? People like to retreat into safe comfortable, emotionally satisfying&nbsp;corner as say that great content is subjective. I think this is cop out, everything is quantifiable. Content on blogs and web sites are conversations. They should sound human and communicate how we feel. If this concept is alien then google " Cluetrain manifesto ". There are reasons we feel that content is great, and ... <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1222278873 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1222278873&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1222278873 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:54:33 -0700 My favorite kit of free user interface components designed for creating professional looking applications in just minutes. Includes full design time support in Visual Studio 2005, extensive source code samples and tutorial documentation. &nbsp; Toolkit Highlights &nbsp;NEW - KryptonNumericUpDown &nbsp;NEW - KryptonBreadCrumb &nbsp;FIXED - KryptonComboBox bugs Ribbon Highlights NEW - NumericUpDown group element Navigator Highlights NEW - Page Drag and Drop added FIXED - Memory ... <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1222160613 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1222160613&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1222160613 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:03:33 -0700 I downloaded Google Crome and was not that impressed, it was ok. I only downloaded it because it was yet other browser I have to test against. After I downloaded it, I learn that it has some security flaws. Well I'm used that with IE, I thought. Today I learn in the fine print of the license agreement that Google can do whatever they want with the data you send and receive using their services. ...<br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1221605478 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1221605478&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1221605478 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:04:40 -0700 I have to say my first impressions of Goggle Analytics are very positive. The generated reports are very comprehensive and don't require much explanation. The drilling down into geographic locations of my visitors was really cool. You can map your campaign goals to the actual statistics gathered by Google Analytics. Since the service is free, I can't anything that really compares to it. <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1221601967 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1221601967&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1221601967 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:52:47 -0700 I've just discovered Google Analytics. It appears to be a very robust free offering. I was able to sign up and integrate it quickly into my site without much difficulty. I'll be posting about it as I review the results. Google's analytics: http://google.com/analytics <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1221035338 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1221035338&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1221035338 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:28:58 -0700 I was blown away recently by a link that was passed to me. It essentially demostrates that rendering for virtual worlds will have to leave our PCs in order to evolve further graphicly. This post appeared on TechniCrunch . <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1220213902 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1220213902&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1220213902 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:18:22 -0700 It's funny how people like to categorize things, especially on the web. For quite some time I was facinated with building virtual communities, facilitating people's ability to manage content and exploring social networks. Then I recalled a blurb from the Clue Train Manifesto, its all just a conversation. As it so clearly stated: &nbsp; The Net is a real place where people can go to learn, to talk to each other, and to do business ... <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1220213652 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1220213652&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1220213652 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:14:12 -0700 &nbsp;I had this posted on my previous blog I think how we think about things is colored by the input we receive. This opened my eyes to many subsequent paths. &nbsp; Shift Happens. <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1219471277 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1219471277&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1219471277 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:01:17 -0700 After having the ability to have great atmospherics in Second Life, it's awesome to find how you can load and share settings. Here is a list of Torley's WindLight settings, no restrictions on them. I use these to create great photos in SL. <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1219468852 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1219468852&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1219468852 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:20:52 -0700 Linden Labs released Mono into Second Life. This has the potential to seriously shift the coding paradigm within SL. I'm sure life in the grid will be a little bumpy for bit, but performance of converted scripts will begin to seriously stabilize SL. <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1219390545 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1219390545&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1219390545 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:35:45 -0700 I was surfing about the other night and discovered Flypaper . Its a tool to develop rich media presentations and other multimedia communications without the cost and complexities of Flash programming. I was able to develop my first presentation in 1/6 the time it would have taken me in Flash. Technorati Profile <br clear="all"> http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1219352118 General http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1219352118&comments=comments http://www.tigersi.com/index.php?entry_id=1219352118 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:56:17 -0700