Top 10 tips for organizing an Agile IT Security Team

Jeff Laskowski , author of the new book and eBook: Agile IT Security Implementation Methodology, gives his top 10 tips on organizing an Agile IT Security Team.

Titanium Best Practices

With the release of Titanium 2.0, a lot of new features and APIs were introduced, though the biggest change is the fully loaded integration of CommonJS. CommonJS started to appear at the end of 2011 and has meant a complete rewrite of the best practices and the application structure. Best practices are always open to interpretation; they are a good starting point but not a definitive solution.

With so many computer programming languages around, people are always trying to find better means to improve the way developers write code and come up with a standard set of practices. Some companies take this policy to a level where they define a complete set of standards. However, for most developers there are no predefined rules laid out or enforced, so they work out their own.

Not following a set of standards or best practices has various consequences, ranging from bad code layout (not a crime, unless you meet the next person to modify the code) to badly performing applications. To define these standards for Titanium we have to start with CommonJS, as it plays a major role in the whole framework. This article by Boydlee Pollentine and Trevor Ward, authors of Appcelerator Titanium: Patterns and Best Practices, looks at best practices directly as they relate to the Titanium Mobile API itself, before diving into writing Titanium applications using CommonJS.

Tips and Tricks: Report Page in IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio

In this article by Abhishek Sanghani, author of IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook, he from his experience shows some techniques to break boundaries and provides some features in reports that are not readily available in the Studio. It also talks about showing images dynamically (traffic lights), handling missing images, dynamic links to external website (for example, Google Maps), alternating drill links, showing tooltips on report, minimum column width and merged cells in Excel output.

In this article, we will cover

• Showing images dynamically (Traffic light report)
• Handling missing image issue
• Dynamic links to external website (Google Map example)
• Alternating drill link
• Showing tool tips on reports
• Achieving minimum column width
• Merged cells in Excel output
• Work sheet name in Excel output
• Changing column titles conditionally

Tips and Tricks on IBM FileNet P8 Content Manager

This article, in the tips and tricks format, takes a good look at the components in IBM FileNet P8 Content Manager and the role each of them plays and how the interconnection existing in those components builds the existing models available to deploy ECM in our organization. This article might provide the right background trivia to make your use of the IBM FileNet P8 Content Manager simpler when dealing with the smaller problems.

Tips and Tricks on Away3D 3.6

In this article by Matthew Casperson, author of Away3D 3.6 Essentials, you will learn how to optimize your Away3D applications, which will allow you to create spectacular 3D environments while maintaining a high level of performance.

• Determining the current frame rate
• Setting the maximum frame rate
• Setting the stage quality
• Modifying the size and scaling of the viewport
• Triangle caching
• Level Of Detail (LOD) 3D objects
• The Away3D filter classes

Tips and Tricks for using Alfresco 3 Business Solutions

Alfresco is an open source content management system written entirely in Java that can be run in a standard Servlet container, such as Apache Tomcat or a JEE server, such as JBoss. The Alfresco platform is built using many third-party open source Java libraries and it's good to know about these libraries as we will use many of them when building extensions and solutions.

This article will take a look at some tips and tricks for using Alfresco, such as:

• Executing patches in a specific order
• NTLM authentication
• Content modeling manageability

Tips and Tricks for Joomla! Multimedia

Joomla! is a Content Management System designed to organize and deliver content within a website environment. Multimedia provides us with stunning interactive user experiences and wonderful design options, but it requires discipline and knowledge to utilize it effectively so that we do not alienate our audiences.

In this article we will provide some tips and tricks for Joomla! multimedia, such as;

• Inserting custom code into your Joomla! Articles
• Creating a new directory using Joomla! Media Manager
• Publishing your Twitter tweets in your Joomla! site

Tips and Tricks for Effectively Using ASP.NET

A slow website with angry managers looking over your shoulder and raging calls from advertisers and clients is every web developer's nightmare.

The following article will take a look at some tips and tricks to improve the performance of your ASP.NET-based website, such as:

• Caching is one of the methods used to improve website performance
• Hotlinking should be avoided
• Reducing space taken by ASP.NET Ids

Tips & Tricks on MySQL for Python

Python is a dynamic programming language, which is completely enterprise ready, owing largely to the variety of support modules that are available to extend its capabilities. In order to build productive and feature-rich Python applications, we need to use MySQL for Python, a module that provides database support to our applications.

In this article, we will have a look at the tips and tricks presented thru-ought on MySQL for Python.