The Consultants Handbook - Chapter 12
My Guess Of The Week - Part 3
Cool new features in the next version of Windows (see TechCrunch) which Bill Gates has announced for next year (see an older post from Mary-Jo Foley).
The Monthly Non-Tech Post
The Consultants Handbook - Chapter 11
See Joe McKendrick about the SOA and Mashups.
One Year In A IT Project - Day 17
See Michael Krigsman about 5 ways tp prevent IT failure.
The 5th way:
"Scope creep. Lack of preparation typically begets the kitchen-sink syndrome, where project leaders add in every kind of feature and the kitchen sink to boot."
Maybe sometimes you want some scope creep:
Working in a IT project is exciting.
But who likes roll-outs? Annoying customer calls and the boring maintenance phase starts.
Why don't postpone this to the infinity?
The Quick Start Guide For The NCC-1701-D, Chapter 4
Lucky Moments
Michael Arrington said a couple of day ago: "Twitter: Something Is Technically Wrong" and Jason Calacanis reiterates: "take my money for less down time"
The Age Of Microblogging
How To Choose A Web Development Framework
See Larry Dignan about Rails and Twitters scaling problems.
Why We Forget To Spell
Do we unlearn spelling (see Christopher Dawson)?
One Day In The Life Of Nicholas Negroponte
Two Takes On Data Portability
Data Portability is a big issue these days with the Facebook Google thing about Friend Connect (see TechCrunch).
The Indian government is happy about Google:
See TechCrunch about Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man.
Déjà Vu
Simply Explained - Part 17
How Do You Know You're A CIO
Read Michael Krigsman if you want to know whether you are a bad CIO.
But what if you don't know whether you're a CIO at all, read this.
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The New Social APIs
New social API Friend Connect from Google (see Garett Rogers)