One of the most persistent beliefs in corporate management is that
money motivates people to do a better job. It’s used to justify
exorbitant executive...
1 replies - 4176 views - 07/09/12 by Larry White in Articles
Development and Operations are both critical to IS/IT usage in an
organization, but developers often look at operations as something alien
– from another...
1 replies - 3621 views - 07/09/12 by Anders Abel in Articles
Why do we need Twitter? I don’t mean in the sense of my previous question
from 2008 (i.e. what’s the point?), I mean why is it necessary to...
1 replies - 3064 views - 07/08/12 by Dan Dyer in Articles
I was watching the Navigation in Android presentation
from this year's Google I/O conference an I can't help thinking that
the back button is...
0 replies - 2659 views - 07/08/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
We have several new ways for you to run your applications in
the cloud, and developers want a little guidance on how to pick which
options. I hope...
0 replies - 3033 views - 07/07/12 by Brian Pince in Articles
At the Devopsdays conference in Mountain View,
Spike Morelli led an Open Space discussion on the importance of
culture. He was concerned that when people...
0 replies - 3575 views - 07/06/12 by Jim Bird in Articles
In the zeal to create a reusable component, you should be careful
not to over-engineer i.e. pursue perfection. The functional needs have
to be...
0 replies - 2713 views - 07/06/12 by Vijay Narayanan in Articles
Last weekend I read this good paper on Public DNS and Global Traffic Management,
written by scientists over at Microsoft Research. The paper on IEEE
Xplore...
0 replies - 2702 views - 07/06/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles
Well, we have seen new versions and new releases in software as days roll by. No wonder!Same is the case with Hadoop! Past few months we saw new releases on...
0 replies - 3705 views - 07/05/12 by Swathi Venkatachala in Articles
Recently I blogged about my thoughts on the idea that frontends are in fact separate applications.
Today, I'd like to describe the transition of my...
0 replies - 2280 views - 07/05/12 by Andrzej Krzywda in Articles
Ben Kepes reflects on his recent experience at GoogleIO, where Google announced the limited release of its IaaS, Google Compute Engine. At GoogleIO today,...
0 replies - 3708 views - 07/05/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles
I’ve
been working to build, and re-build, a geospatial table for work.
There’s been a lot of challenges in this project for me as this is the
first...
2 replies - 4669 views - 07/05/12 by Micheal Shallop in Articles
While I was discussing a particularly tricky Nexus configuration
issue with a power user of Nexus last week I suggested that he write and
ship a custom...
1 replies - 3414 views - 07/04/12 by Tim O'brien in Articles
Despite my experience with working on desktop applications, I've been avoiding any frontend (here meaning JavaScript/html) for years.
It wasn't because I...
1 replies - 3426 views - 07/04/12 by Andrzej Krzywda in Articles
This book begins by defining what software architecture is - a term that
can be mean different things to different people and different
organisations. It...
0 replies - 2832 views - 07/04/12 by Alex Staveley in Articles
