SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
Found this via Ben Kuo - The math behind Internet advertising businesses The advertising equivalence principle? So if we assume that a $1 CPM is about right and figure out what audience is required to build a $100MM annual revenue business, we find out that we need 8.33 billion monthly page views and over 300 million monthly unique visitors creating 25 page views per user.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
I've noticed a reasonable amount of buzz around the net about Wordle. I decided I needed to check out this phenomenon. and I find Wordle is addicting, but more importantly it can help you see relationships in your words. In short, Wordle lets you take any text or web site and get a graphical representation of the word relationships. I find I like Wordle's which are mainly horizontal, and somewhat circular.
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Ruminations of a Programmer
SEPTEMBER 28, 2008
Last week I was having a chatty tweeter session with Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta. It all started with Ari's initial observation regarding the confusion that exists in people's mind regarding the actual use of memcached and how it compares to Terracotta as a caching solution. Ari was chatty and I thought it would be pretty useful to share his observations with a broader audience.
The Agile Manager
SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
Please join me on Friday, 19 September for An Agile Readiness Assessment , a ThoughtWorks sponsored webinar. Taking on Agile can appear to be an overwhelming commitment with no obvious place to start. For one thing, Agile is often a significant departure from how a team is operating, requiring organisational changes, new practices, and stricter discipline.
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.
Code Simplicity
SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
So, as a little digression from our normal content, I felt like writing a list of the top 10 reasons to work on open-source software…but being a born Californian, I felt I had to pay a little respect to my roots. So here we have the top 10 reasons to work on open-source…as said by, like, a dude from Cali (with translations underneath ). Dudes at Silicon Valley parties will think you’re, like, cool.
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SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Fantastic post by Dion Hinchcliffe - Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know. Raises some interesting points, but the general theme is: just figure out ways to get it to happen.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
Still on holidays, but this time around in London and with a rather "busy schedule" as I'll be participating in a couple of Web 2.0 related events as a speaker at the same time that I will be doing some serious face to face social networking with those folks in town and keen on a drink or two or some food. Fancy meeting up?
Ruminations of a Programmer
SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
From Toni Arceiri's blog on Reia. "Objects are able to communicate with only with messages. They hold their own state, which can only be accessed by other objects via messages." "Reia’s objects function as separate Erlang processes. This mean every object is concurrent and runs simultaneously, provided it has something to do." "More than that, Reia objects are gen_servers.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
Ever have the need to know how to do something in Adobe Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop and a host of other tools? Then link to Adobe's Video Center for free, high quality eLearning / simulations. In order to insure crisp graphics, make certain you put your browser into the full screen mode with at least 1024x768 screen resolution.
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Early this week, Joyce Benik of SortFix , contacted me via this blog. She recommended that the Northstar Nerd should take a look at their new search engine. you know. better kind of mouse trap and all that kind of nonsense. While Google will remain my main search bookmark, I was pleasantly surprised with my SoftFix results and they are now part of my search tools.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Google Labs has quietly rolled out a new search capability which allows one to search the audio content of YouTube videos. Right now they are only indexing political content. thus if you want to see what Obama or McCain. or any other politican is saying about the proposed federal bailout. try a search on "federal reserve" This could be huge if expanded to other content.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Folks might think I am crazy, and they are probably correct! However, this Winter I will ski the longest cross-country ski marathon in North America (54 kilometers). As it turns out, this event has a contest which allows two lucky men to recreate the 800-year-old rescue of Prince Haakon (HÅ-ken), the baby who became one of the most popular Kings in Norwegian history.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
I normally steer away from politics in this blog, but as the USA considers the most massive financial bailout since FDR's New Deal , I invite you to consider what happened in two financial markets yesterday: ( see Google Finance ). The price of oil rose over $25. The price of a Euro rose from $1.45 to $1.48. In other words, investors know that the only way to pay for the proposed bailout is to run the printing presses at the US Mint.
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Ruminations of a Programmer
SEPTEMBER 21, 2008
In my last post , I had talked about a Functional Queue implementation in Scala that used the laziness of Streams to improve upon the worst case bound of the dequeue operation. In reality, with the initial benchmarks, the algorithm didn't perform as well, and was, in fact, in some cases, slower than the one that used the strict List based implementation.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
Spending a few days on holidays in Barcelona and enjoying the many pleasures of such a cosmopolitan city, yet with the odd challenge here and there. Yes, I am sure you know which area I am talking about. heh.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
In my continuing engineering blog quest , Agile Engineering Design blew to the forefront via a Google Alert RSS feed ( see my tutorial ). Dr. Adrian Smith has a fantastic blog which focuses upon this topic. The two posts which immediately caught my eye were: Cloud Computing Explained. and a great long post, with lots of links on: Open Source Engineering Tools.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
Here is the first of a series of blog posts that I am putting together to share where some of my excitement comes from for the upcoming trip I will be doing to Berlin to attend what I think is one of the best Social Computing events taking place this year in Europe: The Web 2.0 Expo! Will you be there? Here you will find as well how I can help you get there!
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
I like this kind of competition between the two coasts. Stanford has recently started a new initiative named Engineering Everywhere. In short, you are able to access engineering courses with full course materials and video. The first nine courses are grouped in these three areas: (all added to the Engineering Learning Wiki and Search Engine ): Introduction to Computer Science.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
And we are back! Here is episode #7 from The Sweettt Show, where both Matt and yours truly get to explore, still under "The Age of Conversations" what they would be like while at conference events. And our vision on how we need to break the model and move on with the times. And no, we are not talking about Barcamps.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
It may be 6:30 a.m., but I have not gone crazy! Anyone who thinks the idea of open sources software and Lego Mindstorms are both great ideas, needs to listen to Peter Semmelhack's podcast from O'Reilly's eTech Conference ( all podcasts ). Most everyone understands that the key concept of open source software is that the technical community freely builds upon each other's work.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
A colleague passed along this link: Boeing to Rank Colleges by Measuring Job Success. While the US News methodology is controversial, this may make schools think twice. After all, Boeing has over 35,000 engineers. How was your performance appraisal? Make certain you see my prior post and follow-up on college rankings. It generated some good discussion points by leading web thought leaders.
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
Happy birthday, SMT! Here is hoping you would be making many many more years to come helping shape up the Enterprise 2.0 & Social Computing spaces within the corporate world! Way to go!
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
Quite a few people come to my blog in the quest to find engineering simulation and math learning resources, particularily MATLAB and Excel VBA tutorials. My most popular post apparently is the University of Wisconsin Screencasts. Anyhow, I decided a bit more research was required on my part, and that work led me to the Mathtools.Net. This site, hosted by MathWorks, allows the engineering community to share technology focused math engineering links.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Back again from another business trip and off to some more regular blogging, here is a lengthy blog post on Day 2 Highlights from IBM's Innovation event "Shape Your Future". Very good overall, but specially a richer one than expected. And here is why.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2008
Back at Dartmouth College in the mid 70's, Anthropology professors often looked like the ancient cultures they studied! My, how the field has changed. Professor Michael Wesch and his Kansas State students now study the society and culture of the web. What does it really mean to be part of the YouTube Generation? Remember, YouTube and many of the web's advanced collaborative features are only a couple of years old.
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In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
Google has quietly released another tool. While this release does not have all the buzz that accompanied Chrome ( see my post ), I think most users will find this new Google Search service of greater use. Google now allows one to search in one's native language (English in my case), and receive side by side results for another language. I've found this new search capability works best if you have some knowledge of the language in which your side by search is conducted.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
Okay, my moniker is the Northstar Nerd, thus. the eternal debate, Geek or Nerd!? Via Puneet Gupta's blog who is the CEO of Connectbeam I learned about a new site, TradeVibes , which reviews Silicon Valley startups. This web service reviews a phenomenal number of young companies, and allows you to read reviews, and give an opinion on the future of those same companies.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2008
While I dislike Control Engineering's website, and how they congregate all their podcasts, I do like this particular podcast on Motion Control Modeling. Here is the description and MP3 link. quoted from their site: In the podcast, Lee Stephens takes listeners through the entire system life cycle, from concept to maintenance, and describes how modeling bolsters effective operations at every step. “Armed with a model,†he asserts, “you have a lot more information at your disposal than if
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