November, 2008

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Amazon.com Tries User-Generated Public Relations - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com. A Web 1.0 pioneer which continues to get the good 2.0 stuff. Crowdsourcing is almost always cheaper and more scalable than traditional methods of production, just harder to seen. zembly. A "Wikipedia for social apps—a wiki for live, editable code beyond trivial widgets" it looks like a pretty compelling way to build SNS apps.

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Google Personalized Results

SoCal CTO

Google now shows me an option to push things in my search results to the top. It's an interesting choice. Doesn't it seem like it's inviting problems. Basically the only people who will spend time on this is people trying to improve their search rankings. The rest of us signal with lots of other things like links, bookmarking, etc. Not sure I buy this approach from Google.

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Trip to Rotterdam, The Netherlands, to Present at the Dutch Innovation Platform

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

Here we go once more! On the road again! This time around on the last business trip from this year. Where to? Rotterdam, The Netherlands. What for? Customer meetings to discuss social software and also presenting at the Dutch Innovation Platform on one of my favourite topics to date.

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The PMO Divide

The Agile Manager

This content is derived from a webinar I presented earlier this month titled The Agile PMO: Real-Time Metrics and Visibility. This is the first of a multi-part series. We’ve all seen it: the project that reports “green” status on its stop-and- go light report for months suddenly goes red in the late stages of development. This is nothing new to IT, as projects suddenly crater all the time.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Euler Problem #18 and #67 using functional Scala

Ruminations of a Programmer

Project Euler is one of the forms of exercising one's programming instincts. Last weekend, I happened to come across Problem 18 and 67 , the latter being a variant of the former in the sense that a brute force algorithm may work for Problem 18, but it will never work for 67. Another interesting point regarding this pair of problems is that it has a certain aura of graph theory that will tempt you towards trying out the solution.

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Links for 2008-11-25 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The hidden cost of Google Apps - Nov. 19, 2008. A decent overview of what the pros and cons are of moving to office productivity apps in the cloud. We use Google Apps for most of what we do now unless it needs exotic formatting. Article cites biggest downsides as identity (account) confusion and user learning curve. The latter is overblown as far as I can tell.

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Code Normal Forms

The Programmer's Paradox

The unknown quality of code is a simple, yet highly influential problem with existing software. If you have a millions of lines of code, is it fine or does it need serious work? Is it well-written, or is it a huge mess? An objective way to determine the current state of a large code base is necessary. In the past, we've often relied on subjective opinions, but programmers are notoriously jealous of each other's work.

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Oh, No!!! Have I Become a Mac Fanboy?

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

This is a blog post describing what happens when you go to the candy store, errr, I mean, the Apple Store, and you don't come back empty-handed. Oh well. Better luck next time, I suppose. Or, better not!! W00t!

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Links for 2008-11-24 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Netbook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Now we are seeing a wave of personal computer devices designed specifically for cloud computing. The Asus EEE and Dell Mini 9 and others are selling extremely well and are often out of stock. They use Ubuntu or Windows XP and yes, they are yet another device that Web app creators have to optimize for. Millennials Reshaping Work With Social Computing Says Report | SocialComputingMagazine.com.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Links for 2008-11-20 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Daring Fireball: Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs. Fascinating analysis of how the new Google Mobile voice command uses undocumented iPhone APIs. It seems like unfair advantage and Google is getting special treatment on the platform. Definitely makes Android seem friendlier for and fairer for app devs, who create most of the value on a platform anyway.

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Giving up on Work e-mail - Status Report on Week 40 (How to Get Rid of e-mail)

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

Getting slowly back into the swing of things, here we go with another blog post focusing on the usual weekly progress report on giving up on e-mail, referencing an interview conducted in Spanish, as well as some changes that will be taking place here in this blog as well very soon. Regular blogging activities will resume accordingly, too!

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Evento Blog 2008 - Highlights (Cough, Cough)

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

As I have mentioned in yesterday's blog post , I was planning to put together a number of different entries with the highlights from the superb EventoBlog 2008 that I attended in Seville, over the weekend, to then let you folks know some more of what the experience was like, my impressions, what I learned, some of the folks I have met, the ou.

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Giving up on Work e-mail - Status Report on Week 39 (Calendaring Mess!)

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

After a wonderful week on holidays and after having attended the mind-blowing EventoBlog 2008 in Seville this part weekend, here I am, once again, on to my regular blogging activities and this time around picking things up with the weekly progress report on my giving up on e-mail, which for week 39 was rather interesting, since one of the highest number of incoming e-mails was eventually provoked by myself!

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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A Smart Planet - Why Think?

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

What do you think would take for our planet to smarten up against the number of growing dramatic changes we are going through at the moment? I am sure you would be able to come up with a few, but here is one that I feel we should not lose focus on. Right on the money! (Well, not that kind of money!

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The Sweettt Podcast - Episode 8 - Inside and Outside the Firewall - Part 1 of August 22nd Discussion

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

After a short break due to holidays, various business trips and the usual catch up, The Sweettt Show is back! Here is a post detailing our (Matt Simpon, my co-host and yours truly!) next podcasting episode where we explore the world of Enterprise social software behind the corporate firewall. Benefits, caveats, experiences, stories, etc. etc.

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Giving up on Work e-mail - Status Report on Week 38 (The Enterprise Soft Spot)

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

Here we go, back at it, once again. Here is the weekly progress report from my giving up on e-mail at work, reflecting on an interesting article published by Robert Scoble not long ago, and also with a reflection on something I mentioned as well while I was at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin. Keyword = change!

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On Holidays!

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

Yes, just that! As simple as it can get. On holidays!

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Design Patterns - The Cult to Blame ?

Ruminations of a Programmer

I always thought GOF Design Patterns book achieved it's objective to make us better C++/Java programmers. It taught us how to design polymorphic class hierarchies alongside encouraging delegation over inheritance. In an object oriented language like Java or C++, which does not offer first class higher order functions or closures, the GOF patterns taught us how to implement patterns like Command, Strategy and State through properly encapsulated class structures that would decouple the theme from

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How to Survive and Thrive in Business Today with Web 2.0 - Part 1

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Two of the big themes clearly evident at this week's Web 2.0 Summit is 1) how to effect change successfully today and 2) how to deliver genuine, meaningful value in today's marketplace. The current economic climate combined with this week's seminal change in the current political administration has begun positioning organizations to think about how to not only survive the business environment and apparent recession today, but how to fundamentally transform what they're doing for

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How to Survive and Thrive in Business Today with Web 2.0 - Part 1

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Two of the big themes clearly evident at this week's Web 2.0 Summit is 1) how to effect change successfully today and 2) how to deliver genuine, meaningful value in today's marketplace. The current economic climate combined with this week's seminal change in the current political administration has begun positioning organizations to think about how to not only survive the business environment and apparent recession today, but how to fundamentally transform what they're doing for

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How to Survive and Thrive in Business Today with Web 2.0 - Part 1

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Two of the big themes clearly evident at this week's Web 2.0 Summit is 1) how to effect change successfully today and 2) how to deliver genuine, meaningful value in today's marketplace. The current economic climate combined with this week's seminal change in the current political administration has begun positioning organizations to think about how to not only survive the business environment and apparent recession today, but how to fundamentally transform what they're doing for

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX