http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com Information technologies with passion! Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:10:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Revision control (also known as version control (system) (VCS), source control or (source) code management (SCM)) is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information. It is most commonly used in engineering and software development to manage ongoing development of digital documents like application source code, art ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/revision-control-concepts-revision-control-system-rcs-concurrent-versions-system-cvs-and-subversion/ Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is an enterprise-wide information system designed to coordinate all the resources, information, and activities needed to complete business processes such as order fulfillment or billing. An ERP system supports most of the business system that maintains in a single database the data needed for a variety of ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/enterprise-resource-planning-erp-concepts-methods-and-frameworks/ The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a graphical language for visualizing, specifying and constructing the artifacts of a software-intensive system. The Unified Modeling Language offers a standard way to write a system's blueprints, including conceptual things such as business processes and system functions as well as concrete things such as ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/se-radionet-bran-selic-on-uml-2/ [Def.] A pattern, from the French patron, is a theme of recurring events or objects, sometimes referred to as elements of a set. These elements repeat in a predictable manner. It can be a template or model which can be used to generate things or parts of a thing, especially ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/differences-and-similarities-between-design-patterns-and-architectural-styles/ The Turing Test was introduced by Alan M. Turing (1912-1954) as "the imitation game" in his 1950 article (now available online) Computing Machinery and Intelligence (Mind, Vol. 59, No. 236, pp. 433-460) which he so boldly began by the following sentence: I propose to consider the question "Can machines think?" ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/turing-test-on-six-machine-loebner-prize-in-artificial-intelligence/ I want to post the SE-Radio.net Episode 106 about AOP programming and two nice presentations from slideshare.net. AOP importance is increasing in the past few years, Spring are using it in a widely manner and also OSGi have announced few month ago your Aspect bundle for weaving at run-time (Equinox ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/new-episode-from-se-radionet-basic-introduction-to-aop-aspect-oriented-programming/ Mashups are new and exciting aspects of Web 2.0. As is often the case with new technologies or approaches the industry often gets caught up in promoting the value proposition of what’s emerging. The hype often muddies the water between the value of what can be created with the new ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/mashup-hybrid-web-application-new-generation-of-web-based-applications/ JavaFX is a family of products for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with immersive media and content. The JavaFX products include a runtime and tools suite that web scripters, designers and developers can use to quickly build and deliver expressive rich interactive applications for desktop, mobile, TV and other platforms. ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/javafx-tutorials-and-demos/ [...] Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency. The tactic exploits the internet routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) to let an attacker surreptitiously monitor unencrypted ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/the-internets-biggest-security-hole-exploits-the-internet-routing-protocol-bgp-border-gateway-protocol/ ECF Eclipse Communication Framework is a framework for supporting the development of distributed Eclipse-based tools and applications. It can be used to create other plugins, tools, or full Eclipse RCP applications that require asynchronous point-to-point or publish-and-subscribe messaging. ECF providing two things to developers: Real-time communication and collaboration features for ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/r-osgi-and-distributed-osgi-differences-and-similarities/