I gave a presentation a couple days ago to the NYC chapter of SPIN — that’s “Software Process Improvement Network” for those of you who might not have heard of it. The presentation was on the topic of “Beautiful Software,” and you can download a PDF version of the presentation by clicking here.
Here’s an interesting idea: an August 13, 2010 article in ICT Results, titled “Social networking for innovators,” suggests that companies should be focusing on networking tools for specific categories of people, rather than the generic-Facebook approach that aims to connect every living person on the planet, along with a few stray cats and dogs. Since most companies prize innovation quite highly, and since “innovation remains a fundamentall mysterious process, often the outcome of unexpected Eureka moments,” why not provide collaboration…Read More
As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog posting, the recent Agile 2010 conference had 227 sessions, with 180 speakers. Even if I had somehow managed to attend all of them (a complete impossibility, since there often six or seven sessions running in parallel), I wouldn’t have the time, patience, or energy to report on them all. However, there were some interesting ones, and the first one I want to bring to your attention is Scott Ambler’s “agile mythbuster” presentation. Scott is…Read More
I noticed an August 2, 2010 article from the University of Texas at Dallas that should be of interesting to anyone focusing on cloud computing: it describes a collection of recently-released tools to help application developers build more robust and secure cloud applications. The article is titled “Team Releases Tools for Secure Cloud Computing.” The tools basically consist of security features on top of open-source tools that are frequently used to build cloud-computing apps: Apache’s Hadoop distributed file system, Google’s Mapreduce…Read More
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- @paintergirl1979 Thanks - glad you enjoyed it. Two more NYC photos Thu/Fri, then some photos from Rome. Then back to NYC again. Then Oregon.May 16, 2012 @ 7:06 pm
- One of my photos is in a blog, "On Facebook All Day? 6 Worst Habits For Your Heart!" - http://t.co/sjOZbRPtMay 16, 2012 @ 7:05 pm
- I've uploaded another photo to my Flickr set, "On the street where I live" - http://t.co/jgu2513HMay 16, 2012 @ 5:58 pm
- Good morning, Twitterverse. 54 degrees (F) and hazy/cloudy here in Portland this morning...May 16, 2012 @ 12:02 pm
- RT @sree: HILARIOUS! @TheDailyShow's Aasif Mandvi (@Aasif - follow him!) essay about Hollywood casting in @salon: http://t.co/rA9aW0vEMay 16, 2012 @ 12:23 am
- @Robert_E_Wagner Thanks, glad you like them. 3 more to come from NYC, and then 10 from Rome. Then 10 more from NYC ...May 15, 2012 @ 11:10 pm
- RT @sree: 4. Blogging is a dynamic outlet for developing my passions. 5 Reasons You Should Be Blogging, by @BettyMLiu: http://t.co/eWHQ8lI1 #cjsmMay 15, 2012 @ 8:59 pm
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