October 16th, 2007
[ November 13, 2007; ] On November 13th, I’ll be presenting a talk on “The Top Ten Software Engineering Concepts” at a “best practices” conference in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. For more details, click here.
October 16th, 2007
[ November 15, 2007; ] On November 15th, I’ll be presenting a talk on “The Top Ten Software Engineering Concepts” at a “best practices” conference in Austin, TX. For more details, click here.
October 16th, 2007
[ October 29, 2007 to October 30, 2007. ] On October 29-30, I’ll be presenting a 2-day seminar on Web 2.0 in Rome, Italy. For more details, contact Technology Transfer by clicking here.
October 16th, 2007
The Kansas State anthropology professor who dazzled us a while back with his Web 2.0 theme, “The Machine is (Us)ing Us” is back — this time with a sobering, thought-provoking commentary on the state of college education today. It’s presumably a U.S.-centric view, and I don’t know whether the situation is substantially better or worse [...]
October 16th, 2007
I‘ll be giving a presentation on the “top 10 software engineering concepts” at an ITMPI software best-practices seminar in Jacksonville, FL today; for more details about this and future seminars (including, for example, Albany and Austin next month), click here.
If you’d like to download a 18.4-megabyte PDF of the one-page mind-map for the presentation, click [...]
October 15th, 2007
It’s time for some more updates to my Web 2.0 presentation. As usual, you can view this as a Google Docs presentation (the “ugly Betty” version), by clicking here; or you can download the sexy (Brad Pitt, or Angelina Jolie, take your pick) 18.2-megabyte PDF version, by clicking here.
Here are the changes/additions that I’ve made [...]
October 14th, 2007
I received an email today, out of the blue, from a consultant named Lambert O’Neill. I don’t know Mr. O’Neill, but based on the subject line of his email, I was expecting a message about death-march projects. But here’s what his message said (this is all verbatim; I haven’t even corrected a few innocent typos [...]
October 13th, 2007
Shortly after the Katrina hurricane in 2005, a number of people discovered that the time-honored strategy of putting their “important papers” — wills, birth certificates, marriage licenses, insurance policies — into a bank’s safe deposit box had one fatal flaw: it assumed that the bank would continue functioning even if their own home was flooded, [...]
October 13th, 2007
I got an email this morning from Josh Crandall, the creator of clevercommute.com — which got written up in an October 8, 2007 New York Times article entitled “BlackBerry as a Weapon in the Fight to Commute.”
Having initially organized his grass-roots, peer-to-peer Web 2.0 service to provide information about delays and problems with the Long [...]
October 12th, 2007
I’ve been Twittering for four days now, which obviously doesn’t make me a long-term veteran — but I’ve got enough of a sense of the mechanism that I can make a few observations:
With or without me, Twittering hasn’t (yet) brought about world peace, cured cancer, stopped the increase in global warming, or achieved any other [...]
