I saw a 10% drop in my stats this past month but I have seen such drops before and the IE stats come back in subsequent months. My wife still uses IE and I have noticed that she complains more about browser crashes than she used to. I have set windows update on her machine to automatic for critical updates. If that perception was shared by others, then I could see a precipitous drop in IE usage in the future.
I don't use Vista myself but I know someone who does. He had to back out SP2 because it reduced Powerpoint to a crawl. It looked to me like there was excessive HD activity.
OK, not the most exciting science story of all time. Perhaps Carl Sagan either implanted or discovered a potential capacity for fascination with the science of primes in his novel "Contact" where a large sequence of prime numbers is used as an attempt by extra terrestrials to communicate with humanity.
The 4th amendment is most probably the most explicit protection of privacy; however, I believe that the 3rd, 9th, and 14th amendments also pertain to privacy. I am not a lawyer nor am I licensed to practice law nor give credible legal council.
Most innovations typically play along the periphery of what is permitted because the norm is, by definition, in the middle. By its very nature, social networking runs contrary to U.S. constitutional rights to privacy. That doesn't stop facebook's popularity but I guess that it could cause any large corporation's legal department to blow a gasket. As a participant in an enterprise offering in social networking, I've run in to the opposite end of this spectrum. Companies don't want to reveal their internal problems yet risk doing so as they start searching around in social networks not directly under their control.
I gave yggdrasil a go, I guess that it was early to mid 90s. To be honest, I wasn't all that impressed with yggdrasil so I abandoned it fairly quickly. You've got to remember that I was used to Micro-Port Unix (a port of Sys V for the PC), which was more stable. It didn't have the X Windowing System on it but that wasn't a real problem for me back then.
My next stop along the Linux trail was Redhat, circa version 5. That was a keeper. What did I do with it? Learn its web and database server capabilities. Learn how it differed from the various flavors of Unix that, as a software developer, I was already familiar with. I remember being pretty happy with the -R command line switch which Unix didn't have.
The original post expresses what I believe to be some very real concerns about the future viability of MySql now that it will be in the hands of competitor Oracle. The tone of this discussion completely ignores this most salient point. Instead, we seemed to be more concerned about what constitutes the legal definition of binding from the context of the GPL or which DBMS is better MySql or PostGreSql.
The reality is that there are a lot of web sites out there using MySql. Is anyone here responsible for one of those sites? Do you have any concerns about this Oracle deal with Sun? What is your migration strategy were Oracle to poison or sunset MySql?
There is a lot more to managing a software development project than project management. Gantt charts are great for the time management aspect of a software development project but what the client is paying for isn't effective use of the team. It is a quality application delivered on time and on target. That means relevant and well articulated requirements, good analysis, accurate estimates, flexible and relevant architectures (both software and information), well written code, and consistent testing coverage. As project manager, you don't author any of these deliverables. What you do is foster an environment where these deliverables can grow naturally from the hands of your team.
There have already been plenty of great resources mentioned here to get you started. Here are a few more resources for your consideration. I wrote developing successful software specifically for the purpose of helping introduce a more holistic approach to developing software based on my 25 years experience in the field of professional, enterprise grade software development. Also, here is an article that I wrote which is a review of some advice on software engineering that I believe is relevant to your inquiry. Good Luck!
From TFA, it sounds like they are moving a lot of the stuff you normally find in the more popular libraries into the language itself. That makes sense, but hardly a game changing innovation that web application development companies should be gearing up for.
You make it sound like Java somehow failed or has been beaten by.NET
That is not my take. My anecdotal evidence from friends and peers indicates that ASP.NET and J2EE are about equal in the market. As of the time of this posting, ASP.NET search results on dice are 2307 and J2EE search results on dice are 3475.
I have casually played this game over the years and it's great! Congratulations to Alien Trap on their new release.
I agree with BLGMGK that there is nothing wrong with circa late 90's UT and quake style graphics. For me, it's more about playability than it is about awesome effects.
There is a lot to be said for the bazaar model of intellectual work. The open source model is certainly an early adopter but by no means does it have a lock on this approach.
There is a whole new crop of innovation management tools that use crowd-sourcing techniques as a better way to work.
May I humbly submit some of my own tools in this field as examples here? Take a look at this general purpose problem solving platform called Cogenuity? Cogenuity currently uses a challenge based approach with a heavy emphasis on social networking and collaboration.
Another tool that I wrote is Code Roller which is a collaborative software development project life cycle management solution. It combines software engineering deliverables, process and workflow with project management practices, social networking features, and a crowd-sourcing style recommendation engine.
Both of these tools are free as in beer.
Oh, by the way, the infoworld link from the original submission here is broken.
The review of this book doesn't make it obvious to me. Is this book really about refactoring or is it about query tuning?
IMHO, the former doesn't really need to be db vendor specific. Refactoring should encompass all code and not just the SQL. Looking for ways to refactor from an ORM perspective makes sense such as lazy evaluation and strategic caching.
Query tuning is an important topic with which there are already plenty of resourcesdevoted to it.
This might be a stupid question but what about using the iphone mobile web app support in Aptana? Has anyone used that? Is it any good? No, it's not an app running natively on the iphone but do your users really care?
Amen, brother. I visited a Circuit City on the first weekend of the bankruptcy announcement to find the place absolutely packed but no noticeable decrease in the prices. That, and the fact that IMHO, they were the worst when it came to the "extended warranty extortion scam," makes it a happy day for me to see them go.
I'm reading this same book now. I haven't gotten very far into it yet but so far so good. There is a somewhat intelligent use of diagramming including flowcharting and class diagrams. There are statistics formulas with examples. It's not all dry, though. There are screen shots of linked in and digg and descriptions of how to incorporate or embed collective intelligence style features.
This so-called new Internet isn't about privacy as it is criminalizing bad behavior. So, you get to face charges when your machine gets a virus and now you have to prove that it really wasn't your fault.
Are you ready to handle that? When your car or your gun gets stolen, you can report it. Then you're off the hook if someone commits a crime with it after you report the incident. Most folks won't be able to tell when their computer gets owned in a botnet. Most people would rather quit the Internet forever than risk criminal prosecution over something they don't really understand or have any confidence in managing.
I, too, believe that key/value is a sign of sickness. Obviously, systems where key/value stores appear to be a good fit don't have accounting modules to them. In addition to that, whenever I see a system where a key/value store appears to be a good fit, I look deeper and realize that what we have is a system where the designers were too weak to make a stand on how to capture data so they just delegate all decisions to the user.
That may be a great approach for photo sharing but with almost anything else, the user wants the program to serve as an authoritative source. The choice of fields on a screen should focus the user's attention, like an interview or a debriefing, on making relevant decisions. It shouldn't just be this waxy flexible "anything you want in the moment you can have" style of programming.
Wow, the OP asks for examples of applications that encourage innovation. There are over two hundred responses and none appear to actually answer the question.
Take a look at the Why Not? idea exchange. This one is most probably the best fit for stimulating ideas but is the least appropriate for corporate use.
The first of the challenge based innovation sites was most probably Innocentive. Please excuse the shameless self promotion but do take a look at Cogenuity (currently in beta) which does a better job than Innocentive at combining challenge based collective intelligence with social networking.
Cogenuity has different types of challenges. The promoter can be the judge, anyone can be judge, or a select few (chosen by the promoter) can be the judge.
In some challenges, there is only one winner who gets the entire purse.
There are also challenges where there can be multiple winners who share the purse.
Teams can be formed to work on solutions to challenges.
Solutions are highly collaborative with support for document sharing, etc.
Both teams and challenges have discussion areas (i.e. forum topics).
There is also support for message in-box, blogging, and micro-blogging.
Killing MySql won't send people to MS-Access. It is PostGreSql (which was Sun's original favorite OSS RDMS) that stands to benefit from the death of MySql. I had predicted this a year ago.
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Oracle has been trying to acquire MySql to years. It seems to me that they want to get it for a reason and that reason most likely isn't just to keep it safe from Sun's influence.
I saw a 10% drop in my stats this past month but I have seen such drops before and the IE stats come back in subsequent months. My wife still uses IE and I have noticed that she complains more about browser crashes than she used to. I have set windows update on her machine to automatic for critical updates. If that perception was shared by others, then I could see a precipitous drop in IE usage in the future.
I don't use Vista myself but I know someone who does. He had to back out SP2 because it reduced Powerpoint to a crawl. It looked to me like there was excessive HD activity.
OK, not the most exciting science story of all time. Perhaps Carl Sagan either implanted or discovered a potential capacity for fascination with the science of primes in his novel "Contact" where a large sequence of prime numbers is used as an attempt by extra terrestrials to communicate with humanity.
I just checked the stats on my corporate web site for the past year. Linux users come in at about 6%
The 4th amendment is most probably the most explicit protection of privacy; however, I believe that the 3rd, 9th, and 14th amendments also pertain to privacy. I am not a lawyer nor am I licensed to practice law nor give credible legal council.
Most innovations typically play along the periphery of what is permitted because the norm is, by definition, in the middle. By its very nature, social networking runs contrary to U.S. constitutional rights to privacy. That doesn't stop facebook's popularity but I guess that it could cause any large corporation's legal department to blow a gasket. As a participant in an enterprise offering in social networking, I've run in to the opposite end of this spectrum. Companies don't want to reveal their internal problems yet risk doing so as they start searching around in social networks not directly under their control.
What did I do first with Linux? Install it.
I gave yggdrasil a go, I guess that it was early to mid 90s. To be honest, I wasn't all that impressed with yggdrasil so I abandoned it fairly quickly. You've got to remember that I was used to Micro-Port Unix (a port of Sys V for the PC), which was more stable. It didn't have the X Windowing System on it but that wasn't a real problem for me back then.
My next stop along the Linux trail was Redhat, circa version 5. That was a keeper. What did I do with it? Learn its web and database server capabilities. Learn how it differed from the various flavors of Unix that, as a software developer, I was already familiar with. I remember being pretty happy with the -R command line switch which Unix didn't have.
The original post expresses what I believe to be some very real concerns about the future viability of MySql now that it will be in the hands of competitor Oracle. The tone of this discussion completely ignores this most salient point. Instead, we seemed to be more concerned about what constitutes the legal definition of binding from the context of the GPL or which DBMS is better MySql or PostGreSql.
The reality is that there are a lot of web sites out there using MySql. Is anyone here responsible for one of those sites? Do you have any concerns about this Oracle deal with Sun? What is your migration strategy were Oracle to poison or sunset MySql?
There is a lot more to managing a software development project than project management. Gantt charts are great for the time management aspect of a software development project but what the client is paying for isn't effective use of the team. It is a quality application delivered on time and on target. That means relevant and well articulated requirements, good analysis, accurate estimates, flexible and relevant architectures (both software and information), well written code, and consistent testing coverage. As project manager, you don't author any of these deliverables. What you do is foster an environment where these deliverables can grow naturally from the hands of your team.
There have already been plenty of great resources mentioned here to get you started. Here are a few more resources for your consideration. I wrote developing successful software specifically for the purpose of helping introduce a more holistic approach to developing software based on my 25 years experience in the field of professional, enterprise grade software development. Also, here is an article that I wrote which is a review of some advice on software engineering that I believe is relevant to your inquiry. Good Luck!
From TFA, it sounds like they are moving a lot of the stuff you normally find in the more popular libraries into the language itself. That makes sense, but hardly a game changing innovation that web application development companies should be gearing up for.
Hmmm, sounds like you've been drinking the kool-aid again.
You make it sound like Java somehow failed or has been beaten by .NET
That is not my take. My anecdotal evidence from friends and peers indicates that ASP.NET and J2EE are about equal in the market. As of the time of this posting, ASP.NET search results on dice are 2307 and J2EE search results on dice are 3475.
I have casually played this game over the years and it's great! Congratulations to Alien Trap on their new release. I agree with BLGMGK that there is nothing wrong with circa late 90's UT and quake style graphics. For me, it's more about playability than it is about awesome effects.
There is a lot to be said for the bazaar model of intellectual work. The open source model is certainly an early adopter but by no means does it have a lock on this approach.
There is a whole new crop of innovation management tools that use crowd-sourcing techniques as a better way to work.
May I humbly submit some of my own tools in this field as examples here? Take a look at this general purpose problem solving platform called Cogenuity? Cogenuity currently uses a challenge based approach with a heavy emphasis on social networking and collaboration.
Another tool that I wrote is Code Roller which is a collaborative software development project life cycle management solution. It combines software engineering deliverables, process and workflow with project management practices, social networking features, and a crowd-sourcing style recommendation engine.
Both of these tools are free as in beer.
Oh, by the way, the infoworld link from the original submission here is broken.
Also, check out TexNicCenter for another Latex authoring GUI.
The review of this book doesn't make it obvious to me. Is this book really about refactoring or is it about query tuning?
IMHO, the former doesn't really need to be db vendor specific. Refactoring should encompass all code and not just the SQL. Looking for ways to refactor from an ORM perspective makes sense such as lazy evaluation and strategic caching.
Query tuning is an important topic with which there are already plenty of resources devoted to it.
This might be a stupid question but what about using the iphone mobile web app support in Aptana? Has anyone used that? Is it any good? No, it's not an app running natively on the iphone but do your users really care?
Amen, brother. I visited a Circuit City on the first weekend of the bankruptcy announcement to find the place absolutely packed but no noticeable decrease in the prices. That, and the fact that IMHO, they were the worst when it came to the "extended warranty extortion scam," makes it a happy day for me to see them go.
I agree. Get thee to a wiki.
I'm reading this same book now. I haven't gotten very far into it yet but so far so good. There is a somewhat intelligent use of diagramming including flowcharting and class diagrams. There are statistics formulas with examples. It's not all dry, though. There are screen shots of linked in and digg and descriptions of how to incorporate or embed collective intelligence style features.
This so-called new Internet isn't about privacy as it is criminalizing bad behavior. So, you get to face charges when your machine gets a virus and now you have to prove that it really wasn't your fault.
Are you ready to handle that? When your car or your gun gets stolen, you can report it. Then you're off the hook if someone commits a crime with it after you report the incident. Most folks won't be able to tell when their computer gets owned in a botnet. Most people would rather quit the Internet forever than risk criminal prosecution over something they don't really understand or have any confidence in managing.
I, too, believe that key/value is a sign of sickness. Obviously, systems where key/value stores appear to be a good fit don't have accounting modules to them. In addition to that, whenever I see a system where a key/value store appears to be a good fit, I look deeper and realize that what we have is a system where the designers were too weak to make a stand on how to capture data so they just delegate all decisions to the user.
That may be a great approach for photo sharing but with almost anything else, the user wants the program to serve as an authoritative source. The choice of fields on a screen should focus the user's attention, like an interview or a debriefing, on making relevant decisions. It shouldn't just be this waxy flexible "anything you want in the moment you can have" style of programming.
Wow, the OP asks for examples of applications that encourage innovation. There are over two hundred responses and none appear to actually answer the question.
Take a look at the Why Not? idea exchange. This one is most probably the best fit for stimulating ideas but is the least appropriate for corporate use.
The first of the challenge based innovation sites was most probably Innocentive. Please excuse the shameless self promotion but do take a look at Cogenuity (currently in beta) which does a better job than Innocentive at combining challenge based collective intelligence with social networking.
I have blogged about Cogenuity and about these and other problem solving applications elsewhere.
Good luck with your search!
Killing MySql won't send people to MS-Access. It is PostGreSql (which was Sun's original favorite OSS RDMS) that stands to benefit from the death of MySql. I had predicted this a year ago.