John Qualls wrote: I agree with Douglas Gourlay. Cloud computing is a great solution for companies seeking survival strategies during the economic downturn. With capital shortages, a monthly subscription allows companies to manage their c...
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The experts are promulgating many esoteric ways to determine the financial condition of the economy. It's irrational to base one's mood on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). After all, (a) what does that have to do with the real world? And (b)
I've been to many interesting places, but nothing compares to my twenty-four hour visit to the USS John C. Stennis, an aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy. I hope that you enjoy these pictures and videos. I would be overjoyed if you spotted someone you
Nancy Ortberg of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church recently gave a sermon called "Every Life Needs a Truth-Teller." It contains excellent advice about telling people the truth--admonishing them well if you will. Get the audio version here or the video v
I posted an entry called "What You Can Learn From Hollywood" over at the American Express small business blog. I derived these lessons from the work of Scott Kirsner. He studied the movie industry and ended up writing a book called Inventing the Mo
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Chris Pirillo is on the cutting edge of live stream media. The 35-year-old web whiz knows how to generate online community by hosting videos on UStream and other websites such as CNN.com. In this interview, he discusses ho
I posted an entry in American Express blog entitled the "The Art of Customer Surveys" based on some information sent to me by Dave Wanetick, the managing director of IncreMental Advantage. He points out deficiencies in typical customer surveys that y
"Dear Henry" certainly generated passionate comments. Here's another marketing thought: If people want the House to pass the bailout, all they'd have to ask is, "Do you want China and Abu Dhabi to come in and buy America at fire sale prices?" The bil
With nothing better to do on a Saturday night, I was browsing through this blog's archives, and I came upon this posting: "Frame or Be Framed." It examines the work of U.C. Berkeley professor George Lakoff--specifically, how Republicans are good f
These are some photographs from a recent trip to Mumbai, India. This is one intense city with a population of approximately thirteen million people.
Clearly, this is not Santa Cruz, California. This is the view you'll most frequently see when
A common assumption is that communicating face-to-face is more persuasive than email. That's not always true, according to a 2002 study. Researchers found that men are often more responsive to email because it downplays their competitive tendencie
Haven't done one of these in a while.
On Twitter we're talking, to the extent you can converse on Twitter, about where we'll go if McCain wins the Presidency. Last time it came up, a couple of weeks ago I think, I was saying Vancouver -- because it's just up the coast, about a 2-day drive from Berkeley. Easy to get to, and it's got an American-friendly border, at least so far. Maybe if McCain wins they'll start turning us away so many people will want to emigrate. It's one likely response to his
Didn’t John already say something along these lines a while ago? Larry Ellison’s Brilliant Anti-Cloud Computing Rant Earlier this week, we wrote that the term “cloud computing” now seems to apply to just about anything even loosely associated with the Internet, making it effectively meaningless. But our rant is nothing compared to what Oracle’s chief executive unleashed [...]
In conjunction with the CS4 release, the Adobe Developer Center has just post some new articles on Flash Player 10, and Flash Professional CS4.
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Introducing Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
Generating sounds dynamically in Flash Player 10
Creating blends, filters and fills with Adobe Pixel Bender
New Flash samples
Updated Flash quick starts
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Introducing Adobe Flash Player 10
Detecting Flash Player versions and embedding SWF files with SWFObject 2
Adobe Flash Player Administratio
When most people think of computer games, they think of escapist titles like World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, or Super Mario. Even most games that label themselves as simulations, like the ever-popular Madden football series, are meant to more for fun than realistic training.
Development studio Intelligence Gaming is behind a different kind of game, dubbed “serious gaming” - games that are designed to teach users rather than entertain them. The company has previously created games
Zack Exley, who knows a thing or two about political organizing, writes about the Obama campaign’s use of top-down and lateral connectedness to get out the vote. And Patrick Ruffini, at The Next Right, is worried that Obama got it right. (Via Andrew Sullilvan)
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Microsoft recently released Silverlight 2.0 to the public. After the Olympic games, Silverlight ended up on a LOT of people's computers, but Silverlight 2 has more importance to application developers in the future. I discuss that in this post
I laughed when I heard Sarah Palin say in last week's debate: “...and I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also” (this is straight from the CNN transcript). I laughed because it’s such overt “spin” to say you’re not going to answer what the moderator wants to hear. And, incidentally, it's exactly what the moderator wants to hear.But that’s beside the poin
Joe McKendrick recently commented in his Fast Forward blog, Mashups: So Easy a Caveman Can Write Them? He makes a good case of the continued involvement of IT despite the claims of some mashup supporters. Joe quotes Ovum analyst, Tony Baer, “...no matter how visual mashup tools are, you still need developers or power users at some point of the lifecycle, whether it be to vet objects or sources than can be safely mashed up without violating some corporate policy, or to deal with some complexiti
Tonight's game was not exactly the stellar performance we are used to see from Jon Lester. Quite the contrary, actually. Jason Varitek, shown here as he walks across the field from the bullpen to the dugout, brought home the only run for the Red Sox in game 3 of the ALCS on Jacoby Ellsbury's sacrificial flyout, avoiding a complete shutout game.
I’m giving a keynote address at the New Jersey Software Process Symposium on October 14th … somewhere in the wilderness of New Jersey. (All I know is that I’ve checked in at the New Brunswick Hyatt Regency hotel on the evening of the 13th, in the midst of pitch-black darkness all around, and I’ve got a Google Maps set of directions to get me to the conference tomorrow morning). I’m supposed to be talking on the “Impact of Web 2.0 on Software Development, Proj
The experts are promulgating many esoteric ways to determine the financial condition of the economy. It's irrational to base one's mood on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). After all, (a) what does that have to do with the real world? And (b) it reflects the buying (and selling) decisions of the same investment bankers who got us into this mess.
Instead, here are my ten+ ways--GIA (Guy's Index of Absurdity)--to tell if the economy is really bad:
Venture capitalists attend board meeti
In 2002, I wrote a lengthy response to Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker piece on The Social Life of Paper. Gladwell was addressing a recent book at the time, The Myth of the Paperless Office, and coming to the conclusion, with them, that all this gee-whiz computer technology is not leading to a paperless office, and paper is great, and computers aren’t so great, and hey, you kids, get off my lawn.
Actually, he didn’t say, “hey, you kids, get off my lawn,” but I’v
Stephen Fry recently published an article on cloud computing. Like many others he got it completely wrong and was describing nothing more than what the Internet is. Cloud computing is not the second coming.
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“A couple of years ago, I went into a big-box shoe store and bought a pair of sneakers. At the checkout counter, the cashier grabbed a can of that bogus silicone spray stores always try to up-sell you. It's supposed to make sneakers shiny and waterproof, but it doesn't seem to do anything.”
From my latest Inc. column: Sins of Commissions
My dad emailed to add:
The same problem arises when you set measurable incentives (money for better test results) in educational policies
I've said a lot of times that I don't like scripting languages, and in fact all of my work is currently done in Java. I see it as perfectly fitting my needs, from JME to JEE, through the Desktop. But...
The JavaScript language currently does not provide a good way to distinguish between objects and arrays. The typeof operator is broken: It identifies arrays as objects. Comparing a value's constructor property doesn't work because arrays created in a different frame will have a different constructor. There are do-it-yourself tests for arrayness, but they are complicated and unreliable. Mark Miller of The Google, by closely reading the ECMAScript standard, has discovered
From the press some of the initial iPhone apps have been getting, it seems that there are going to be quite a few Apple iPhone App Store millionaires this year ! So why not write your own and join the crowd ? Don't know Objective C or XCode - then get learning ! A nice resource is theiphonedevplace , which has many tutorial links now that Apple rescinded their NDA . So what you waiting for ? Get going - beat the credit crunch !
One of the more obvious up-and-coming IT “best practices” is the area of “decision management” – as evangelised by James Taylor at Smart Enough Systems – which postulates that separating and managing decisions is as important as managing business processes. In a “conventional event processing” or synchronous SOA world, this means separate “decision services” invoked to make important decisions during automated processes, or prior to BPMN
Fred Brooks’s law of ‘adding manpower to a late software project makes it later‘ is one most of us have tried to prove wrong…….and failed!
I was at Agile 2008 and saw an interesting session, “Breaking Brooks’s Law” from Menlo Innovations, a Michigan based Java development company. They claimed to disprove this law and demonstrated their working environment and techniques that allowed them to do so.
Although the presentation was only 45 minutes, we
My interview to Mike Card has triggered an intense discussion ongoing, on the pros and cons of considering LINQ as the best option for a future Java query API. You can follow the discussion here.
File this under the better late than never... On September 26 and 27th, the folks who bring you Flex 360, put on a 2 day "Flex Camp" in New Jersery, which went over extremely well. I was presenting on Testing with Fluint (formerl
