Apr10

Journalism stinks - blame the internet

The Atlantic/National Journal polled 43 prominent insiders about the state of journalism and found that it stinks. They blame the internet. There was whining. Oh, yes, the internet is good because it brings more people together (why can’t they ...[Read More]

Published: Apr-10-09 | 0 Comments

Feb12

The maturity model restaurant

A good maturity model helps you decide where you are and what kinds of goals you need to set in order to start out on the path to improvement. Maybe you are a software development shop and you need a better process for getting your code through the ...[Read More]

Published: Feb-12-09 | 0 Comments

Nov25

What really is ITIL?

Business in modern times has been interested in focusing on the customer. Since we, the customers, have the cash that business wants, this makes sense. Peter Drucker, the business management godfather, has been hammering away for all of his career o ...[Read More]

Published: Nov-25-08 | 0 Comments

Oct08

JavaScript found in trash – worth millions

Since 2006, we’ve been in the midst of a programming revolution on the web that hasn’t been led by the big guns. In fact, the people have spurned Sun’s Java, Microsoft’s .NET, and even the open source PHP when it came to adding some functionality ...[Read More]

Published: Oct-08-08 | 0 Comments

Sep04

SuperChrome is born - read the comic book

The browser wars have returned. And just in time because boy, was I getting bored. It seemed that things were getting too stable for good competition in the web arena. Internet Explorer had conceded to follow CSS standards, Firefox updated every ...[Read More]

Published: Sep-04-08 | 0 Comments

Jul03

Soy sauce and push-ups

I enjoy seeing what people are passionate or mad about through the Internet. In China, even though they have the Great Firewall to protect them from the outside culture, they still manage to find ways around it as all good computer enemies of th ...[Read More]

Published: Jul-03-08 | 1 Comment

Jun11

IT Project Managers in high demand

IT project managers are where the money is at. Yes, the economy just dumped 50,000 jobs as of last month but this is absolutely the best time to have a PMP and know your IT skills. A study conducted by the staffing firm Veritude says a little ov ...[Read More]

Published: Jun-11-08 | 0 Comments

May10

Ice cream and garbage collectors

Imagine that your ice cream sales business had recently survived a tough time when the store manager decided to convert everything into the metric system to confuse you and customers so you could look like you made more money. You fired the manage ...[Read More]

Published: May-10-08 | 0 Comments

May01

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Metrics

Software metrics are funny. When you want to manage by the numbers, you think counting the output of programmers can lead you to a worthwhile standard to gauge activity completion in a project. Of course, the baseline needs to be set. And then you ...[Read More]

Published: May-01-08 | 0 Comments

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