SoCal CTO
JANUARY 26, 2010
I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. I used an image from Roger Smith that describes the varying roles of a CTO as the company matures. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be.
The Recovering Engineer
JANUARY 21, 2010
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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JANUARY 29, 2010
Is Social Media Worth Your Time? - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Is Social Media Worth Your Time? | Harvard Business: [link] Useful discussion of motivations. [from [link].
Steve Farber
JANUARY 11, 2010
In Greater Than Yourself , I made a commitment to document the story of my GTY Project, Tommy Spaulding , which I have done in video (there are transcripts as well) over at GreaterThanYourself.com. In the book, I also suggested that others should do something similar with their own Projects. My hope was that at least a few folks would be brave enough to publicly tell about their GTY experiences–the highs and the lows–so we could all learn and benefit from one another’s successe
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QAspire
JANUARY 3, 2010
Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Nicholas Bate’s Book ‘Instant MBA’ and Other Great Resources for 2010 Nicholas Bate is a prolific thinker, blogger and author. More than that, he is a wonderful friend. He shared some of his best work with me in 2009, in form of his books and innovatively done cards. With his book titled “Instant MBA" – Think, perform and earn like a top business-school graduate” – I can safely say that I have just completed my “Instant Do-It-y
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SoCal CTO
JANUARY 5, 2010
The analysts at Morgan Stanley have produced a report that’s quite good reading on some of the major trends concerning mobile web. The report consists of: The Mobile Internet Report Summary Slides – a 92-slide presentation that provides highlights on the key themes The Mobile Internet Report Key Themes – a 659-slide presentation that drills down a bit more The Mobile Internet Report – a 424 page report which explores 8 major themes in depth and includes the two aforementioned slide presentations
The Recovering Engineer
JANUARY 15, 2010
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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JANUARY 21, 2010
[link]. Six Must-Read New Topics in Enterprise Social Computing: [link] [from [link]. [link]. Deep new exploration and sum up of SOA governance by Software AG's @mikojava: [link] [from [link].
Ruminations of a Programmer
JANUARY 10, 2010
In Learning, using and designing command paradigms , John M Carroll introduces the notion of lexical congruence. When you design a language, one of the things that you do is lexicalization of the domain. If we extrapolate the concept to software designs in general, we go through the same process with our domain model. We identify artifacts or lexemes and choose to name them appropriately so that the names are congruent with the semantics of the domain.
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QAspire
JANUARY 12, 2010
Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Quality and Quantity – The Conversation Continues On 8th Jan, 2010, I wrote a post on Quality and Quantity – Compliance and Excellence. The post resulted in some very interesting conversations in form of comments and in-person conversations. The gist of my post was: Quality is to first ask “Why are we doing it?
Lead on Purpose
JANUARY 4, 2010
Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay
SoCal CTO
JANUARY 28, 2010
Yesterday, I met with someone at the early stage of a startup. He has a great concept with some complexity to it. He was struggling to find high quality developers in Los Angeles. Just the kind of person I like to meet. :) But I was a bit surprised when he emphasized how hard it had been for them to find a web developer in Los Angeles. My flippant comment was, “If you do a Google search for Los Angeles web developer, you’ll find a LOT of people and firms.
The Recovering Engineer
JANUARY 26, 2010
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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JANUARY 5, 2010
Three Enterprise 2.0 Themes You Should Be Watching in 2010 « I’m Not Actually a Geek. Three Enterprise 2.0 Themes You Should Be Watching in 2010: [link] [from [link]. The Personal Enterprise | Socialwrite.com. RT @leebryant Nice post from @jevon on the personal enterprise: [link] [from [link].
Jeremiah Grossman
JANUARY 29, 2010
Ten of Application Security industry's coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week -- in no particular order. Gunnar Peterson on APTs: What Infosec Should Learn & Are Coming from Inside the House! Umm…TechCrunch? Defacement Two in 24 Hours Congressional Web Site Defacements Follow the State of the Union Google to Pay For Bugs Found in Chromium Chromium Security in Depth WASC RSA 2010 Meet-up Facebook sandbox escape Dasient Q4'09 web-based malware data and
The Agile Manager
JANUARY 22, 2010
In the late 1970s, the microcomputer industry was still in its emergent stages. Microcomputers weren’t nearly as powerful as mainframe and minicomputers. There also wasn’t clearly a “killer app” for them. But at the time, it was obvious that microcomputers were going to have a significant impact on our lives. People bought computers for home and used them for work.
Sailpoint
JANUARY 20, 2010
We recently conducted our third Market Pulse Survey, which focused on the key drivers of access certifications and how organizations ensure their access privileges align with business policy. According to the 150 respondents, including many readers of this blog, there is clear evidence business users involved in these processes don’t fully understand what they are certifying.
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SoCal CTO
JANUARY 7, 2010
This is purely anecdotal, but it seems like a lot of companies are hiring technology talent here in Southern California. I’ve recently seen several tweets from software development companies looking for talent. And I’ve heard from several people looking for Startup Software Developers. And we have been looking to hire several positions (but are being really picky as is normally the case).
The Recovering Engineer
JANUARY 31, 2010
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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JANUARY 4, 2010
Collaborative Innovation through Social Competition | SocialComputingJournal.com. Collaborative Innovation through Social Competition: [link] [from [link]. 21 Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories - Your-On-The-Job Mentorship System from the bright ideas factory. 21 Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories: [link] Great list, we really must create a full database soon though.
Jeremiah Grossman
JANUARY 28, 2010
For those attending RSA Conference 2010 (San Francisco / March 1 – 5) and want to mingle with fellow Web application security people, the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) luncheon is the place to be. Free drinks and appetizers will be served (sponsored by WhiteHat Security ). WASC meet-ups are rare opportunities to shake hands with like minded people we only otherwise communicate with virtually.
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Ruminations of a Programmer
JANUARY 20, 2010
A couple of posts earlier I had blogged about a real life case study of one of our projects where we are using a SQL store (Oracle) and a NoSQL store (MongoDB) in combination over a message based backbone. MongoDB was used to cater to a very specific subset of the application functionality, where we felt it made a better fit than a traditional RDBMS.
Steve Farber
JANUARY 1, 2010
Continuing with Kineticom’s stellar example of incorporating LEAP into their own culture and language, here’s a sampling of Energy , Kineticom style: “Charge a room and elevate everyone to their ‘A’ game…ravenous quest to produce and to not be boxed out in the marketplace…sassy style of dishing it out and keeping it fun…bringing high levels of energy to her personal game…ability and desire for personal development and the development of other
QAspire
JANUARY 17, 2010
Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Book Review: The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Clark Businesses today are plagued by people who are "installed" in leadership positions just because of their prior performance as a "worker" I have seen some excellent technical brains failing miserably as project leaders. Why so? The answer is simple - they got into a leadership position as a natural progression without any reality check on their aptitude, skills and capability to
The Recovering Engineer
JANUARY 23, 2010
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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JANUARY 3, 2010
Is Social Media Worth Your Time? - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Is Social Media Worth Your Time? | Harvard Business: [link] Useful discussion of motivations. [from [link]. The New Enterprise 2.0 Community Manager. The New Enterprise 2.0 Community Manager: [link] Nice props from @jacobm. [from [link]. Reto 2.0 Webcast: The Emerging Technical And Business Models Of Web 2.0.
Jeremiah Grossman
JANUARY 22, 2010
Ten of Application Security industry's coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week -- in no particular order. Is APT After You? Microsoft: Introducing Quick Security References (QSRs) Missed pages and the usefulness of "site maps" for web app vuln scanning Private browsing in Flash Player 10.1 Presentation about WAFs in the cloud How Often Should I Reassess My Web Applications?
Ruminations of a Programmer
JANUARY 3, 2010
James Hague, a long time Erlanger, drives home a point or two regarding purity of paradigms in a couple of his latest blog posts. Here's his take on being effective with pure functional languages. "My real position is this: 100% pure functional programing doesn't work. Even 98% pure functional programming doesn't work. But if the slider between functional purity and 1980s BASIC-style imperative messiness is kicked down a few notches--say to 85%--then it really does work.
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