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Prepare To Be Socialized For Profit
The fast moving wave that is social computing swept through Davos on Thursday in a session titled “Organizing the Unorganizable: Social Computing and the Enterprise.” The interactive workshop assembled such luminaries as Paulo Coehlo, Jim Schwartz, Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, Jimmy Wales, Matt Cohler, and Reid Hoffman, among others. The…
Be Reasonable
Artificial intelligence (or AI) has had a bad rap for since the rise and fall of companies in the 1980’s such as Thinking Machines. Google’s mission to answer all questions posed by anyone at anytime around the world such as: “Where shall I go on holiday this Easter?” or “What…
7 surprising lessons from interviewing in India
During my recent visit to India, I interviewed several potential candidates for our offshore development team. In doing this, I learned some valuable lessons about interviewing in India that I will share with you so you can avoid some of the pitfalls that are obvious – but probably only…
Why there’s no such thing as a CMDB
My boss, when our team was building the architecture methods (see Enterprise Architecture), was involved with the UK Government’s development of ITIL. Because I became aware of both the ITIL documentation and the analysis that we used in developing architecture methods, I think that there’s a significant issue that’s…
In favour of Ajax HTML
I’m often asked why I prefer to use Ajax HTML rather than XML or JSON etc. There are multiple reasons I cite, one is it’s easier to maintain but the more important one is that it’s faster and less work (both on the frontend and the backend).
Here’s an interesting…
Enterprise Architecture
Back in the early 90’s I was a consultant in a large systems integrator. Moore’s law and de facto and de jure standardisations were breaking proprietary systems’ stranglehold on customers, driving the ambitions of organsations to increase the scope of their IT across the value chain and to get economies of scale of technology ownership, while increasing the end-to-end automation of their enterprises to reduce business operational costs.
The First Day at School
This weekend I was again enjoying the company of my nearly four year old nephew (the nearly being important at this age) when it struck me how in many ways the journey to our new release of Tideway Foundation has parallels to him growing up.
Whilst I have been…
How to: Choose between Contract and Permanent developers
A lot of software companies use contractors to supplement their in-house Engineering teams, instead of hiring more permanent staff to develop a bunch of shiny new features. But how do you decide which route to take? What are the deciding factors?
Why contractors almost always are the wrong choice
<br… How Opera deals with trying to import non existent CSS files
We happened upon a very interesting Opera quirk at work today!
A developer decided to add an @import link to a non-existent CSS file that would be included at a later date. During testing we saw some interesting results with the page rendering, things being positioned in the wrong place…
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