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Archive for October, 2006

What Skills Do You Need to Jumpstart Web Services Projects

20 October 2006

The exciting Web services technology promises to allow disparate computer systems and applications to communicate and interoperate. That’s a big deal in IT industry. Although this technology is still a work in progress, you should start to prepare yourself for this technology. When this technology matures, you should be ready to handle web services projects […]

Surviving from Aging

12 October 2006

1. Age Discrimination
2. Strategies in Workplace
3. Strategies in Job Hunting
4. Best Workplace for Aging IT Pros
1. Age Discrimination
For mid-aged and 50+ IT professionals, I have bad news and good news for you. Let’s check out the bad news first:
Bad News

(1) Age discrimination does exist in IT industry.
(2) IT industry workforce is very young. You’ve seen fresh college graduates […]

Bug Tracking Software Tools

2 October 2006

BugZilla
http://www.bugzilla.org/
Bugzilla is a Defect Tracking System or Bug-Tracking System that allows individual or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively. Despite being free, Bugzilla has many features its expensive counterparts lack.
IBM Rational ClearQuest
Expensive software as part of Rational Suite Enterprise.
Mantis
http://www.mantisbt.org/
Mantis is a web-based bug tracking system written in PHP […]

Version Control Software Tools

2 October 2006

Visual Source Safe
The most popular version control tool from Microsoft.
IBM Rational ClearCase
The high-end version control tool as part of Rational Suite Enterprise. Many powerful features such as creating version tree and view tag.
CVS
http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/
CVS - Concurrent Versions System is a version control system, an important component of Source Configuration Management (SCM). Using it, you can […]