Software Best Practices conference – Ft. Lauderdale

[ 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.

Software Best Practices conference – Austin

[ 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.

Web 2.0 seminar – Rome

[ 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.

Michael Wesch’s “A Vision of Students Today”

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 [...]

Top Ten Software Engineering Ideas, in Jacksonville

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 [...]

Web 2.0 presentation, Version 42

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 [...]

The Ugly Side of Offshore Outsourcing

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 [...]

Bugout files

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, [...]

Clevercommute

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 [...]

Four Days of Twittering

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 [...]