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Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers,
testers and project managers.
Fall 2006 issue's content:
* Introduction to the Emerging Practice Software Product Line
Development
* Making an Incremental Transition to Software Product Line Practice
* An Introduction to Web Development Using the Ruby on Rails Framework

40 pages of software development knowledge.

To download or read this issue go to http://www.methodsandtools.com/

A recent poll asked to compare the quality of open source and
commercial software development tools. And the winner is... not
obvious ;o)

if you are interested, you can view the results on
http://www.methodsandtools.com/dynpoll/oldpoll.php?OSQual2

Submission Deadline: 9 October 2006


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                                   IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
APPLIED COMPUTING 2007
                                         February 17-20, 2007 -
SALAMANCA, SPAIN
                                               (http://www.computing-
conf.org/)

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* Conference background and goals
The IADIS Applied Computing 2007 conference aims to address the main
issues of concern within the applied computing area and related
fields. This conference covers essentially technical aspects. The
applied computing field is divided into more detailed areas (see
below). However innovative contributes that don't fit into these
areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to
conference attendees.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book. The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended
versions of their papers in specific journals, and in the IADIS
Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems.

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and
Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind
refereeing process.

* Topics related to Applied Computing are of interest. These
include, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Agent Systems and Applications
- Algorithms
- Applied Information Systems
- Bioinformatics
- Case Studies and Applications
- Communications
- Data Mining
- Database Systems
- E-Commerce Theory and Practice
- Embedded Systems
- Evaluation and Assessment
- Global Tendencies
- Grid Computing
- Information Retrieval
- Intelligent Systems
- Mobile Networks and Systems
- Multimedia
- Networking
- Object Orientation
- Parallel and Distributed Systems
- Payment Systems
- Programming Languages
- Protocols and Standards
- Security
- Semantic Web
- Software Engineering
- Storage Issues
- Technologies for E-Learning
- Wireless Applications
- WWW Applications
- WWW Technologies
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Usability Issues
- Virtual Reality
- Visualization
- XML and other Extensible Languages

* Important Dates:
- Submission: 9 October 2006
- Notification to Authors: 15 December 2006
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 8
January 2007
- Late Registration: After 8 January 2007
- Conference: Salamanca, Spain, 17 to 20 February 2007

* Conference Location: The conference will be held in Salamanca,
Spain.

* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE APPLIED COMPUTING 2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: ac_sec@... Web site: http://www.computing-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Conference and Program Co-Chairs
Nuno Guimarães, Faculdade de Ciências - University of Lisbon,
Portugal
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Committee Members:

for the full Committee Members list please access
http://www.computing-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located event
Please also check the co-located event Web Based Communities 2007
(http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/ - 18-20 February 2007

* Registered participants in the Applied Computing conference may
attend the Web Based Communities conference sessions free of charge.

Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers,
testers and project managers.
Summer 2006 issue's content:
* Preventing Project Failure
* Agile Adoption at British Telecom
* Managing an Open Source Project

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The last Methods & Tools' poll examined how software configuration
management (change management / version control) is performed by
organisations. Is it an informal activity or performed with formal
procedures that are validated by an automated tool?

Question: How is software configuration management (change
management / version control) performed at your location?

No formal procedure and no tool 15%
A formal procedure but no tool.  10%
A tool but no formal procedure 26%
A formal procedure and a tool 49%

Participants: 346

As you can see a large majority of participants is using a tool, but
the "managed" part of software configuration is less obvious if you
consider the procedural part. Around 40% of participants have no
formal procedure for software configuration. The need for a
procedure depends on the size of the team and the impact of the
developed system. You don't have the same requirements for medical
device software than for a web site. The good results for the
adoption of tools could also be explained by the good development
and adoption of open source software configuration management tools
like CVS or Subversion.

There are some participants that have neither tools nor formal
procedures, but this number should be considered with care as
smaller software development structure have different needs as far
as code sharing or versioning is concerned.

Source: Methods and Tools, http://www.methodsandtools.com