February 25th, 2007
Years ago, there were stories about a software bug that caused F-16 fighter jets to flip upside down when they crossed the equator. When you first hear such a story, it’s bound to make you laugh; but I suspect that the fighter pilot didn’t think it was very funny. I haven’t been able to track [...]
February 24th, 2007
Okay, so Google Apps– aka Google Premiere Edition — is now on the radar screen. Big announcement, lots of PR, some interesting commentaries from traditional sources like Infoworld (see their article, “Google Apps aims beyond Microsoft Office,” by Ephraim Schwartz, published February 23rd).
We’ve all seen G-mail, and most of us have played around with [...]
February 23rd, 2007
I got an interesting email yesterday from someone named “Roy”:
“I thought you might be interested in a new crowdsourcing initiative on www.SellaBand.com it is a place where unsigned artists can find fans who will fund the recording of an album, and in return get a cd and a share of the profits. The best thing [...]
February 23rd, 2007
I first noticed a blog article about Yahoo Pipes a couple weeks ago on the O’Reilly Radar blog, but didn’t have time to read it at all. That was followed by roughly four more increasingly-enthusiastic O’Reilly blogs (a list of which I’ll provide below), and an equally enthusiastic article on Steve Borsch’s Connecting the [...]
February 21st, 2007
A couple days ago, I posted a blog entry to inform everyone that (a) the wiki version of my Just Enough Structured Analysis (JESA) book is now available, here; and (b) since it is a wiki, it’s available to everyone for editing and revision.
So far, this has elicited little more than a loud yawn (or [...]
February 20th, 2007
Well, so far I’ve gotten a total of zero comments, responses, cries for help, taunts, dares, or dirty jokes in response to yesterday’s blog about embarking upon a new edition of my Death March book. Well, maybe there were some dirty jokes; fortunately, my spam filter seems to do a pretty good job of eliminating [...]
February 19th, 2007
Back in September of last year, I posted a blog entry indicating that I was starting a wiki project to revise and update a book I originally wrote in 1989, under the title of Modern Structured Analysis. The new version is called Just Enough Structured Analysis (aka JESA), and the wiki is located here. For [...]
February 18th, 2007
I was suddenly jerked awake from a bad dream, early this morning, with the urgent sense that it’s time to write a new edition of my Death-March book. God only knows what the dream was about; maybe I was being harassed by Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss on a suicide-mission death-march project, or maybe I just had [...]
February 17th, 2007
When I graduated from college in 1965, I invested in two things to improve my chances of succeeding in my chosen career of computer software. First, I purchased an IBM Selectric typewriter; in fact, it was so expensive (a few hundred dollars) that I couldn’t just buy it in one fell swoop, and I had [...]
February 16th, 2007
It’s been roughly three months since I last updated my Web 2.0 mind-map, and while things slowed down during the holidays, there have been some changes and new developments. I still have several dozen articles, blog postings, and various other tidbits that need to be incorporated into the mind-map, but I’ve added enough new stuff [...]
