Managing Up

IDS-Can you afford not to have one?

Everyone has an opinion as to the longevity of this type of technology, its validity and its capabilities as a security tool. Most security professionals will agree that an IDS cannot be used as your only form of defence. If an IDS is deployed in the correct manner, that is as part of an overall security program, with the correct processes and procedures in place…

Bankruptcy Basics

According to the American Bankruptcy Institute "household debt is at a record high relative to disposable income." The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts reported that the number of filings for the year ended March 31, 2003 "exceeded 1.6 million for the first time in any 12 month period," a 15.1 percent increase from the previous year.

Currency Converter Server with C#

Jeff Prosise has written an article "Currency Converter with ASP.NET Web Forms", he pretty much explained how to load XML data with ASP.NET from the "Rates.xml" file. In this article I have created Currency Converter Server which can be scheduled to extract the data from third party site and build the "Rates.xml" dynamically.

Use Case Management with Rational Rose and Rational RequisitePro

How do you organize your use cases? Can you tell in which release a particular use case is implemented? How do you know that the entire system functionality is tested? Which tests are affected by a change in a use case? If the inability to answer these questions has caused you frustration, schedule setbacks, or the delivery of products that have missed the mark, read…