Weekend reading

Recommending reading for a weekend that’s already ending is a little confusing, but this feature has become more timeless. Besides making a deal with the group around Filemon at the end of the week, I came across several interesting articles. I was especially pleased by the next installment of Sins for the mad proofreader, subtitled “autentizace, autentikace or autentifikace?”, three Czech forms for authentication.

From what occasionally makes its way into public view, I consider Google the most forward-thinking software company. Alongside the brilliant move of freeing up 20% of working time for activities outside employees’ projects, it introduced an internal blogging system called B.I.G. (Blogger in Google).

At first glance, it’s a brilliant way to improve the intranet. Google is certainly one of several companies to use blogs internally, but it’s probably the first large company to make it work on a substantial scale.

• (27 November 2004, Kryl Blog) An internal company blogging system
• (25 November 2004, Javalobby.org) yawiki 1.0RC2 (yet another wiki system)
• (25 November 2004, Interval.cz) Sins for the mad proofreader. Autentizace, autentikace or autentifikace?
• (25 November 2004, Rubicon) What is UML actually for?
• (24 November 2004, conBLOG) Comment spam. More tactics
• (24 November 2004, TSS) CodeFutures Ships FireStorm/DAO 2.3