Rome Web 2.0 seminar

[ April 2, 2007 to April 3, 2007. ] I’ll be presenting a 2-day seminar (in English) on Web 2.0 technologies, business practices, and trends in Rome on April 2-3. For more details, check here.

Boston SPIN meeting

[ April 17, 2007; ] I’ll be giving a presentation this evening at the Boston SPIN meeting. Check here for more details.

Princeton “Software Best Practices” conference

[ April 26, 2007; ] I’ll be speaking at the Princeton, NJ venue of the 2007 “Software Best Practices” conference, organized by the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute. For more details, click here.

Cutter Summit conference

[ April 30, 2007; ] I’m participating in a panel session on the first day of this conference; look here for more details.

Cutter Summit 2007

I’ve just arrived in Boston, for the annual Cutter Summit conference. As usual, it’s still early spring here, somewhat chilly and gray; the blossoming of trees and flowers is about two weeks behind my neighborhood in New York. But the week is likely to be so busy that I may not even get outside for […]

Top Ten Software Ideas

I’m giving a presentation in Princeton tomorrow at a Software Best Practices conference sponsored by the IT Metrics Institute. The presentation is about the “Ten Most Important Ideas in Software Engineering,” and (as usual) it’s organized in the form of a mind-map. You can download the PDF version of the presentation, with hyperlinks embedded, by […]

Microsoft’s $3 software bundle

Nearly a week ago, I noticed a couple of Internet articles about Microsoft’s decision to sell a combination of the “starter” version of its Windows XP operating system, combined with the “home” version of Microsoft Office, and Windows Live Mail, and Student 2007 (whatever that is) — all for the princely sum of $3. Here […]

Talkin’ About Web 2.0 in Boston

A few evenings ago, I had a chance to talk to about 75-100 IT professionals in the Boston community about Web 2.0. It was a miserably rainy evening, following two days of gale winds and downpours, so I was grateful that anyone showed up at all. The audience politely gawked at the 32-page mind-map that […]

Google, Wikipedia, and Sunscreen

Yesterday, I noted that Luis Suarez had recommended a wonderful video, entitled “Wear Sunscreen” on his blog; in case you missed it, here it is again:

In my naivete, I thought the video was new and original, and I sent it on to various family members so they could enjoy it too. This morning, my son […]

Wear sunscreen!

Luis Suarez recommended this on his blog; I have no idea how he found it. But it is indeed pretty cool…