Yes, it is hard.
Lot of folks do not understand why Software estimation is so hard. The problem is folks who don’t understand the difficulty in estimating software make it more harder. I would compare software estimation to using a camera. The objects are fuzzy to begin with and slowly they get into focus. it [...]
Information distribution is a key issue for any business and the buzz words in the title of this blog are associated with this key concept.
RSS
Really Simple Syndication is a popular mechanism for receiving and publishing content from websites.Syndication is when information is categorized and normalized in addition to being collected.
Here are some key aspects [...]
There are different types of sessions, and the lifetime of the session may vary from one to another. Some sessions last for a few seconds while others last for the lifetime of the whole system. Axis2 architecture has been designed to support four types of sessions, and we observe that there are minor differences between [...]
Age
Type: Response header
If the response entity-body does not come fresh from the server, the Age header is a measure of how long ago it left the server. This header is usually set by HTTP caches, so that the client knows it might be getting an old copy of a representation.
Cache-Control
Type: Request and response header
This header [...]
200 (”OK”)
Everything’s fine. The document in the entity-body, if any, is a representation of some resource.
400 (”Bad Request”)
There’s a problem on the client side. The document in the entity-body, if any, is an error message. Hopefully the client can understand the error message and use it to [...]
This is a tricky question to me. I am an Engineering Director with mixed responsibilities. The primary focus is to make sure I meet the demands of the business unit(s) and also to make sure that the folks who work for me are in a happy place.
The main question for any leader is
“Are [...]
Application Layer
BOOTP: Bootstrap Protocol
DCAP: Data Link Switching Client Access Protocol
DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DNS: Domain Name Systems
FTP: File Transfer Protocol
Finger: User Information Protocol
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
S-HTTP: Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (S-HTTP)
IMAP & IMAP4: Internet Message Access Protocol
IPDC: IP Device Control
IRCP (IRC): Internet Relay Chat Protocol
LDAP: Lightweighted Directory Access Protocol
MIME (S-MIME): Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (Secure [...]
Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model is a reference model developed by ISO (International Organization for Standardization) in 1984, as a conceptual framework of standards for communication in the network across different equipment and applications by different vendors. It is now considered the primary architectural model for inter-computing and internetworking communications. Most of the network communication [...]
There is a lot of bad press around vista. Things get worse when folks start reviewing the 64 bit version. I don’t think vista is all that bad for a typical windows user. I would consider myself to be a power user and I do use my computer for heavy duty video-editing and programming.
I had [...]
Setting Up Your Development Environment
Android applications, like most mobile phone applications, are developed in a host-target development environment. In other words, you develop your application on a host computer (where resources are abundant), and download it to a target mobile phone for testing and ultimate use.
To write your own Android mobile phone applications, you’ll first [...]