November 10th, 2007
I’ve just uploaded a new version (v05) of my “Top Ten Software Engineering Concepts” presentation to slideshare.net; to access it, click here. I’m working on making it available as a Google Apps presentation document, and also a downloadable PDF document; hopefully that will all be available in the next couple of days …
November 7th, 2007
I’m participating in a “Software Best Practices” seminar in Albany tomorrow (click here for details on future venues of this seminar, hosted by IT Metrics & Productivity Institute — including Ft. Lauderdale and Austin next week), and I’ll be giving a talk on the “Top Ten Software Engineering Ideas.” To download the 20.5-megabyte PDF of [...]
November 7th, 2007
I just noticed an Internet headline indicating the General Motors has posted a $39 billion loss for the last quarter. Whoa, thought I. You really have to work pretty hard to lose that much money in one fiscal quarter! Well, just how hard do you have to work? There were 92 calendar days in the [...]
November 7th, 2007
I’m still absorbing some of the information that was published yesterday on the Google Phone alliance, and I don’t have any sources of “inside” information. My initial feeling is that, while it may take a few years to play out, Google’s strategy of an open-source, software-dominated mobile platform has a good chance of beating Apple’s [...]
November 5th, 2007
I’m not an obsessed, full-time devotee of social networking (SN), but I was surprised when I began to realize how much the various SN services have permeated my life. I supposed that if I were a high-school or college student, I might devote most of my waking hours to interactions with both “real” friends and [...]
November 5th, 2007
Once again, it’s been a busy week in the Web 2.0 world. I’ve accumulated another bunch of new material, as well as some fixes to broken links and minor editing/rerwording of existing material. As usual, the new version is available to you in several different formats. If you’d like to see it as an (ugly [...]
November 3rd, 2007
At the suggestion of IBM’s knowledge-management/social-networking wizard, Luis Suarez (not to be confused with the football and baseball players also named Luis Suarez, described here in Wikipedia!), I downloaded a new Web browser called Flock last night (click here to see Luis’ review of Flock). A beta version has been available for quite a while, [...]
November 2nd, 2007
I brought along an interesting book on my trip to Rome last weekend, and thought I’d recommend it to those of you who have the good luck, or bad luck (depending on your perspective) of managing geeks. The book is Leading Geeks, by Paul Glen; it’s about 250 pages of straightforward reading, and qualifies reasonably [...]
November 2nd, 2007
At the suggestion of several people, I’ve now uploaded version 47 of my Web 2.0 presentation on Slideshare. Click here to see the presentation — where you can flip from page to page, download the entire presentation, and take advantage of the 500+ embedded hyperlinks in the presentation. I haven’t figured out all of the [...]
November 1st, 2007
Back in May, my friend Stowe Boyd told me about an intriguing new Web service called Dopplr; since it was (and still is) operating as a “private beta” service, I relied on him to send me an invitation to join. And for the next several months, Stowe was the only other person on my Dopplr [...]
