Well I've upgraded to a later version of Drupal and this version conveniently has a nice third party module to support OpenID. That's good because the provider I used originally seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. Now I can use my website as my OpenID and have the whole thing handled by VeriSign. Yea!

Well one year into the iPhone era. Millions have been sold and now the next generation is cheaper and better. The issues that enterprises were unhappy about seem to have evaporated in this new version of the phone. Software developers finally have an API that can be used to write more than a simple widget and a store to sell and download their applications into people's phones. GPS has been added. All that seems to be missing is a video camera function and voice dialing.

Forgotten software is busy at work on software to pre-masetr HD DVDs. Keeping busy on this new project has left ¡Toro! a bit behind schedule but not forgotten. If you want to learn about mastering DVDs or want to help build software using XCode and Cocoa then send an email to dvdafteredit@mac.com and we'll talk.

If you can talk, or press a button you can also control Skype from your Mac or PC. If you use Skype on the Mac or on the PC you'll love some work forgotten software has done for it's friends over at Speakables.

Howard Schmidt, former White House cybersecurity advisor is quoted in an article suggesting just this. Like many politicians his comprehension of the real issues borders on ignorance.

By now you've probably heard about it. Agile Software Development is the rage. It is said to bring to software development benefits that are usually attributed to Just In Time inventory management. It is a development strategy that deals with change easily and produces results. The Agile Manifesto and its Principles lay the groundwork. It combines the best of traditional engineering wisdom with the best of a late night self-help guru.