October 28th, 2007
It’s been a busy week in the Web 2.0 world, and I’m also putting the finishing touches on a two-day Web 2.0 seminar that I’m presenting in Rome. As a result, I’ve created a new version, V47, of my Web 2.0 materials. As usual, you can view the “ugly Betty” version of these materials as […]
October 11th, 2007
I’ll be giving a presentation on the “top 10 software engineering concepts” at a software best-practices seminar in Detroit today; for more details about this and future seminars (including, for example, Jacksonville next week, and Austin next month), click here.
If you’d like to download a 15.9-megabyte PDF of the one-page mind-map for the presentation, […]
September 5th, 2007
Back in May, I participated in a panel session at an ICSE conference in Minneapolis — before the bridge fell down, and before its airport men’s room became so notorious — in which we celebrated the 20th anniversary publication of Peopleware, by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister. My report on that panel session can be […]
May 29th, 2007
I had the great honor and pleasure of participating in a retrospective panel session on peopleware last week at the International Conference on Software Engineering (aka ICSE 2007) in Minneapolis, with some of the luminaries in the software field: Fred Brooks, Barry Boehm, Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, and Linda Rising. The panel — celebrating the […]
May 1st, 2007
If I had to boil Rob Austin’s keynote presentation on “Learning from Innovators Around the World” down to a single sentence, it would be this: while IT has had a long (and generally successful) track record at improving profitability by cutting costs, and while it has often found some innovative ways to cut costs (e.g., […]
April 13th, 2007
Steve Jobs didn’t ask for my advice about the merits of delaying the release of Apple’s next operating system (code-name “Leopard,” for those of you who live in the Land of Vista), in order to ensure that its much-vaunted iPhone product will ship on time in (late) June. And I have no spies, anonymous sources, […]
March 26th, 2007
I continue to be intrigued by the Sugar user interface for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), and I’ve collected some additional links — including a YouTube video demo — that will give you a better idea of what it’s all about:
The YouTube video demo, titled “Slightly better of the OLPC User Interface“
“Trying Out the […]
March 15th, 2007
I stumbled upon something new and exciting a couple days ago, and while I don’t know enough about it to provide an authoritative report of any kind, I want to bring it to everyone’s attention, in the hopes that others can begin exploring it and help all of us learn more about it.
In a nutshell: […]
March 6th, 2007
In the good old days, I’d arrive at the airport half an hour before a flight was scheduled to depart — and I had friends who made a habit of rushing into the terminal five minutes before departure. If I had a suitcase to check, I’d give it to a friendly baggage porter at curbside, […]
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 […]
