More Portal Highlights

Jeremy Chan continues his blogs from the LinuxWorld and NetworkWorld Conference & Expo, focusing on Bdale Garbee's keynote speech "The Community Development Model: Mission Critical or Warm & Fuzzy?"

Jeremy's other blogs include:

• In the Security track, Tony Howlett examines open-source tools available for performing network security audits, covering network discovery and mapping, TCP/IP service enumeration, network vulnerability, firewall and router auditing, and wireless security.

• In the Smalltalk Solutions Conference, held in conjunction with the conference, Avi Bryant presents Seaside, a Smalltalk-based web application framework.

And speaking of open source:

• Mulyadi Santosa and Eugeniy Meshcheryakov use the CHPOX tool for checkpointing in Linux.

Checkpointing lets you grab a snapshot of the current state of a program in execution, then save it on disk.

Meanwhile, over in the Windows/.NET department:

• Scott Swigart sits down with industry experts who use Visual Studio 2500 on a daily basis to get their impressions about its stability and usefulness. "Visual Studio 2005: Unstable and Highly Recommended" is a must read if you work with VS2005.

In the Java department:

• Gigi Sayfan dives into Maven, a software project management and comprehension tool for developing large-scale Java systems.

Don't miss Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz's blogs on Architecture and Design in, well, the Architecture & Design department as he examines:

• Agile Architects and Architecture.

and ponders the question "Should Architects Code?".

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