The easiest Jolt vote I've made in years was for stpBA Storyboarding, a product which every architect and team lead owes themselves to evaluate. I would say it is revolutionary, but it is better than that -- it simply makes the way you probably already work vastly more efficient.

Essentially, it …

The Jolt Awards were announced last night. The list of winners is below. We had some particularly competitive categories this year (in Technical Books, I advise you to simply fill your shopping cart with the finalists). Most delightful, this was a year where there was some real innovation, which I'll …

I started to write a post on version-control patterns ("How to pack your trunk") when I realized what a can of worms it was. Essentially, every time I wrote down "the way I've always done it" I realized that there were always trade-offs -- that what worked in some situations wouldn't …

Perhaps Twitter is the rock-and-roll of a generation that I am too old to get, but even with my vast ego, I find it inconceivable that anyone would want to receive an SMS of the minutiae of my life ("Driving to Costco," "Taking a break and throwing some darts").

However …

Thee UMPCs up for grabs in this CodeProject programming competition:

...must allow new means of input: ink, touch, and more. Build a great application that encompasses these needs, write an article about what you've done, and you may win one of three cool Samsung Ultra-Mobile PCs.

One winner per month …

Unusually, I find myself disagreeing with Jeff Atwood and his statement that "Any 404 page that has the characters "404" on it, if not already an outright failure, is already well on its way to becoming one." Jeff's larger point is that one not use the default 404, which is …

I wasn't going to name names, because I do not know the vulnerability which allowed a rootkit to be installed on my system. I may well have been the source of whatever vulnerability by which the system was compromised.

But this "Hacker Safe" blaze front and center on the iPower …

Jon Udell suggests that if we have travel-like learning experiences online, then perhaps some of the non-obvious benefits of travel would also accrue in online environments. It's a nice thought, but I'm thinking that you don't necessarily choose "Gears of War" as your meeting ground.

However, the real-world development of software product lines is hampered by the real-world limitations of maintaining a stable center as the product-line offerings spin off in a widening gyre...

Going Over the Software Product Line is the title of my latest SD Times column.

So one of my servers is totally compromised by a rootkit called Hacker Defender. I've spent the day trying to clean it off, and I think I just pronged it for good (cross my fingers). It's funny how I discovered the problem (and by funny, I mean, there's nothing funny …