Archive for July 22nd, 2011

How to Build a Tire Swing – A Case for Agile Development

According to the Project Management Institute, in 2007 61% of all “IT” projects failed or were halted before completion. In 2008, more than 75% of all projects exceeded budgets by 30%. All too frequently, IT projects fail to meet customer or user expectations. There are many risks inherent with creation in an enterprise IT environment: […]

A Data Mining Approach to Spam Detection in Social Bookmarking Sites – Part 1

With the growing popularity of social bookmarking sites, spammers typically use these kind of services as a playground for their activities. As we sll know, one of the main disadvantages of Social Bookmarking Systems is Spam. The intention of spammers to use these systems is to pursue two goals: Place links in the sites to […]

12 Things to Get Your Portal in Production Quicklty: Part 4 – Visualization Tools

Many of you have experienced the wonder of the written word.  You ask a question, the client says something which no one understands, you write it down and everyone agrees to it.  Several months later, you deliver something and it was not what they wanted.  Agile methodologies like SCRUM can get you part way there […]