This script enables you to check the spelling of your model descriptions, by country codes, in U.K. English, U.S. English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish.

This script enables you to quickly generate a Participating Classes (or participants) diagram from a use case realization or package.

This article shows you how to generate Unified Modeling Language (UML) models from structured text by using the IBM(R) Rational(R) Software Delivery Platform API, in particular the architecture management piece of the Rational Software Delivery Platform (Rational Modeling Platform, for short). This can save you time if you already have structured information that you would like to use for building UML models. The article gives an overview of the modeling architecture and the programming model. It also provides a detailed code example, along with a code walkthrough and an outline of the steps required to run this sample code.

This article guides you through the steps needed to create a Web content management portlet that enables users to add comments to a content item. The proposed solution enables administrators to specify various levels of moderation for the comments. Moderation can be either fully moderated, where administrators have to approve comments before they are posted, or no moderation, requiring nothing on the administrator’s part but posting all user comments. Users are also able to review and recommend the comments as well; accordingly, the comments are sorted based on that recommendation.

Research conducted by online recruitment specialist Theitjobboard.co.uk revealed that of 500 IT workers surveyed for a report on working hours, nearly half said their hours had increased in the last two years. 42.5 percent cited the increase in the volume of work as the main reason for their working overtime, but 6.8 percent said the economic uncertainty made them feel the need to put in extra hours. Only 10 percent of those that worked overtime were actually paid for it.

Of those surveyed, over a quarter (27 percent) worked between 48-60 hours a week, with five percent working between 60-75 hours. Despite this amount of overtime being worked, only 15.8 percent had taken up the issue of working long hours with their manager. But of those that complained, 84.4 percent said it had not reduced the hours they worked.

HHD, or hybrid hard drive, disk storage is a technology that will generally give way to the simpler, more efficient SSD, or solid-state drive, form factor. Want proof? Seagate Technology, Western Digital, Samsung, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Micron Technology, SanDisk and LSI Logic are well into flash development as the next generation of processors begins to take shape. Some companies are working on advanced solid-state technologies such as Spansion and Virident Systems’ EcoRAM. NAND flash memory forms the core of the removable USB storage devices known as USB flash drives and the Apple iPod and Apple iPhone. EMC, Dell and Sun Microsystems are among the first systems vendors to come out with optional solid-state drives for servers and storage arrays. Here’s why SSD storage will kill HHD storage.

The Best Western Hotel Group had more than bathroom towels ripped off over the past year. According to reports over 8 million guest records were nabbed by hackers and, according to authorities, many of the hotel patrons personal information, including home addresses, phone numbers, place of employment and credit card details, are now for sale by the Russian Mafia.

The investigation led by The Sunday Herald discovered late last week that a previously unknown Indian hacker managed to breach the online booking system of the Best Western Hotel group, one of the largest hotel chains in the world.

The Indian hacker managed to gather the personal details of every customer booked into any of the Best Western group’s hotels since 2007 and the stolen data contains addresses, telephone numbers, credit card details and employment places of Best Western hotel guests.

TimeTrade Systems, which makes software that helps harried professionals schedule appointments, released a personal SAAS scheduling application for sales and service workers Aug. 25.

TimeDriver, in beta and available for free on both Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac desktop computers, lets an individual worker who wants to book appointments with a prospective client set up invitations through their Google or Microsoft Outlook calendars. The application runs on Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox.

Like Salesforce.com, Zoho Apps or Google Apps, TimeDriver is one of many software as a service tools designed to run on the Internet, instead of making professionals download yet another application that will clutter their already overburdened PCs.

The lack of software security and application security is becoming a greater source of network vulnerability for many companies. In order to strengthen network security, it’s important to adopt a security-enhanced software development process. Companies should reduce exploitable weaknesses by integrating software security practices throughout the software development lifecycle. Knowledge Center contributor Julia Allen explains just how to do this and spells out why increasing application security should matter to you.

IBM and Hewlett-Packard once again topped Gartner’s quarterly survey of the worldwide server market. IBM took top honors when it came to revenue in the second quarter of 2008, and HP shipped more systems than IBM and Dell did.

The latest survey, released Aug. 21, showed that despite the downturn in the U.S. economy, server sales continued to grow at a modest pace. In the second quarter of 2008, worldwide server revenue topped $13.8 billion, an increase of 5.7 percent from the $13 billion revenue seen in the second quarter of 2007. Shipments increased more than 12 percent for a total of more than 2.3 million units.