28-Mar-2006

Urban Legends

TrickyDicky in Zenit Translations publishes Urban Legends, Translation of Leyendas urbanísimas published in Los 4 on 14-Mar-2006. These give an interesting insight into contemporary Spanish society.

CMMI for Services

Juan Palacio in Navegapolis posts a link to the news by the SEI of the CMMI for Services Project. Currently, some service organizations do apply CMMI to their work, but this requires significant interpretation by both the organizations and their appraisers. A CMMI for Services model will improve consistency and payoff for service organizations because it will include service deployment practices that are not covered by the current CMMI model. The page has a link to further information.

Ruby on Rails 1.1 released

Epaminondas Pantulis in Sobre Raíles posts a link to the news that Version 1.1 has been released: Rails 1.1: RJS, Active Record++, respond_to, integration tests, and 500 other things! The star of our one-one show is RJS: JavaScript written in Ruby. The other things are also described in the post.

Open Source application for prediction markets

Joserra in Najaraba.com: Software libre, negocios y más. posts a link to Zocalo, a toolkit for building prediction markets, markets in securities that pay out depending on outcomes of future events. They provide estimates of the likelihood of specific outcomes that are more reliable than other sources of predictions.