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Comment So earlier this week I found myself in east London, getting kitted out in very big boots and a hard hat to visit a part of the Northern Outfall Sewer, built in 1862-3 and one of the city's six main interceptory sewers. [24 Jul 2008]
Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers
Photo This sewer is a masterpiece of Victorian engineering - part of a giant project aimed at reducing the foul smells in the city and reducing the incidence of cholera - as reflected by this plaque. This is part of the Northern Outfall Sewer, designed... [22 Jul 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (RAL), near Oxford, has a 10-gigabit connection to Cern capable of 1,250Mbps upstream and downstream that will pipe in almost raw data from the LHC via the UK part of the LCG - the GridPP. [15 Jul 2008]
Exclusive: Barclays to offshore 1,800 UK tech jobs
News Barclays is to cut 1,800 IT posts in the UK as part of plans to create centrally managed technology "centres of excellence" in key offshore locations around the globe. A spokeswoman for Barclays said: "Barclays ambition is to become one of a... [14 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! 'Boss' offers up search to build on
News Open Strategy, the company's effort to expose its own technology for outside developers in an effort to become a more indispensable part of the internet.silicon.com Classics One idea is a visual search presentation that shows miniature versions of... [10 Jul 2008]
MSDN Webcast: Essentials of Application Security (Part 1 of 3) - Secure Communications (Level 200)
White Paper Part one specifically addresses Secure Communications in the context of secure application development. This webcast is the first of a three-part series about the importance of Application Security and its best practices and guidelines. [10 Jul 2008]
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
News Nobody's suggesting Microsoft will release code for its big name applications in the near future but some industry watchers are speculating that post-Gates, open source and interoperability will become increasingly part of the Microsoft culture. [07 Jul 2008]
The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation - Chapter 1
White Paper This paper is part one of a two-part series -- download Chapter 2: "The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation - Chapter 2" to learn more. Storing data on a disk has become less expensive and more convenient in modern times. [07 Jul 2008]
MSDN Webcast: Writing Secure Code (Part 1 of 2): Best Practices (Level 200)
White Paper This webcast is part one of a two-part series to help experienced developers build their knowledge of secure coding best practices. The attendee of this webcast will learn about established threat modeling methodologies and tools and how to apply... [05 Jul 2008]
Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment Implementation of the optional, challenging retail internal ratings basis approach as part of the Basel II capital adequacy requirements. But by displaying increasing sophistication in their risk management and lending decisions, lenders will play... [03 Jul 2008]
From CIO to consultant: Project manager or salesman?
Comment As with all projects of this kind, the initial estimates proved to be too optimistic and in fact the design process took the best part of six months. So much for resolution number one. We managed to do it but it was one of the toughest projects I... [02 Jul 2008]
Services-Based Enterprise Integration Patterns Made Easy, Part 3: Web Services and Registry
White Paper Part 1 and Part 2 of this series covers the basic concepts necessary to develop services-based integration patterns. This paper, the third in the series, and the upcoming Part 4 further develop these ideas so the services-based integration patterns... [02 Jul 2008]
Adopting Agile Development, Part 2: Understanding the Different Facets
White Paper Part 1 of the agile development series introduced agile processes, the benefits of using them, and the requirements placed on the organization that uses them. One will also learn how culture and pricing affect the process and outcomes. [02 Jul 2008]
Develop and Deploy Multitenant Web-Delivered Solutions Using IBM Middleware, Part 1: Challenges and Architectural Patterns
White Paper One example is multitenancy, where a single instance of the software, running on a service provider's premises, serves multiple organizations. Also learn how IBM software products can help one build and deploy scalable, configurable, and cost... [02 Jul 2008]
Documenting Software Architecture, Part 1: What Software Architecture Is, and Why It's Important to Document It
White Paper In this new series, learn why and how one should document software architecture. One will learn about the five different views, or aspects, that one should document for any medium-to large-scale software development project. [02 Jul 2008]
