Here is a tool which generates loads of random passwords: pwgen. On Debian you can install it with ‘apt-get install pwgen’.
Archive for July, 2008
I am glad to announce: Our new release of LSIS – The Life Science Search Engine is online. Check it out: Frontend: Flex We eliminated the boolean AND for the user utilizing term-boosing, result-scoring depending on search terms and intelligent sorting instead. No paging through results, just scrolling Feedback very welcome!
I had the case to build a WebService which had to be called transporting an array with some user data. This was the first time I was using an array as parameter in a SOAP-Service. Here are some examples that show what I figured out about how to setup the WSDL: Example WSDL describing use [...]
For those who like working on the terminal, this wrapper for Google-Search is a must: http://goosh.org It emulates a shell-like interface in your browser. Short intro: ‘s webdev-notepad’ – performs a search ‘m’ – shows more results after you searched for something ‘video pigor’ – searches for videos of pigor ‘gmail’ – lets you log [...]
The five stages of innovation: 1. People deny that the innovation is required. 2. People deny that the innovation is effective. 3. People deny that the innovation is important. 4. People deny that the innovation will justify the effort required to adopt it. 5. People accept and adopt the innovation, enjoy its benefits, attribute it [...]
A nice list of developer mantras: http://www.pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/extracts/tips Excerpt: Don’t Repeat Yourself Eliminate Effects Between Unrelated Things Don’t Assume It – Prove It Design with Contracts Finish What You Start Refactor Early, Refactor Often Test Your Software, or Your Users Will Don’t Think Outside the Box – Find the Box Coding Ain’t Done ‘Til All the [...]
Inspired by a talk of Joseph Pelrine http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Agile-Adoption-Joseph-Pelrine about why agile methods sometimes fail in organizations, I became aware of the following point: The cycle to successful progress in agile teams is NOT Inspect > Adapt but rather Apply > Inspect > Apadpt. Agile teams operate in complex environments (systems). Often there are no direct [...]
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