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Sunday, February 10, 2008

Save Sick PC with UBCD4Win

UBCD4Win is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem.

UBCD4Win is based on Bart's PE©. Bart's PE© builds a Windows® "pre-install" environment CD, basically a simple Windows® XP booted from CD. UBCD4Win includes network support and allows you the ability to modify NTFS volumes, recover deleted files, create new NTFS volumes, scan hard drives for viruses, etc.

UBCD4Win download includes almost everything you need to repair your system problems. This project has been put together to be the ultimate recovery cd and not a replacement OS (Operating System). Please visit the "List of Tools" page for a complete list of what is included in the latest version of UBCD4Win.

Website to download - http://www.ubcd4win.com/index.htm



Saturday, February 9, 2008

Top Freeware - Your Personal Magazine Cover using U.R. Celeb 2.011



It’s your dream come true!!!

Your face on Time magazine’s cover with the caption: “Person of the Year.” Or do you prefer to be on the cover of People’s: “Sexiest Man Alive”issue? Not at all and you don’t have to spend $20 at the local amusement park to fake your 15 minutes of fame.

U.R. Celeb will allow you to put any supported image of yourself, a loved one, or a not-so-loved-one on one of several popular magazine covers in less than 15 minutes.
You can edit the captions, their colors, and add other “mini” images with their own captions (i.e., to indicate other stories inside the issue).

When you’re done designing your custom magazine cover, you can save it to your hard drive, print, or e-mail it to friends and family.

Website to download - http://urceleb.oniton.com/

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

Risk based selection for agile iterative lifecycle methods

This overview helps project management and teams in selecting the best iterative method(s) for their projects, based on the major risks they want to tackle. The overview highlights the focus of the different methods, ie. which risks are mainly addressed. This is not a detailed course on all the methods, but references to literature are provided.During the last decade agile software development

Monday, August 14, 2006

Pair Programming Benefits and Rules

Pair programming is one of the more successfull technique from the agile movement. However it may require a cultural change in traditional software shops. Paying attention to explain the benefits and giving some guidance will help:General benefits:Produces better code coverage. By switching pairs, developers understand more of the system.Minimizes dependencies upon personnel.Results in a more

Thursday, August 3, 2006

Most Useful Requirements Processes

Understand and communicate requirements that align yout IT prioritieswith your business needs.No process is more fundamental than the process of defining and managing business and technical requirements. It's no surprise that studies cite inaccurate, incomplete, and mismanaged requirements as the primary reason for project failure.The Requirements-engineering process consists of two major domains

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Outsourcing: Rationale, Criteria, Concerns, Challenges, Lessons Learned

Diamondcluster did a study on the Global IT Outsourcing, here are the highlights:Top 3 Outsourcing Rationale1. Reduce or Control Cost2. Better Manage Variable Capacity Needs3. Free Up Internal Resources for more Critical PurposesTop 3 Key Selection Criteria1. Technology Expertise2. Cost3. Flexibility in Structuring Operating Model (offshore, onshore, ...)Top 3 Outsourcing Areas1. Application

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

10 Continuous Integration Best Practices

Frequent integrations with automatic build and test leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly. Since the first publication of Martin Fowler's article on Continuous Integration the method fastly gained popularity. In the latest version he focusses more on the best practices: Maintain a Single Source Repository. Automate the