SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 1, 2008
I went to a meetup yesterday that was on the topic of Internet Marketing / SEO / SEM. The meeting had a decent case study and some pretty good discussion around the room of different tools that you might consider using. Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. It felt like a bad time share presentation.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2008
A few weeks back Dave Snowden , as well as a couple of other folks I respect and admire , put together a blog post where he was questioning the ethical validity of the contents of a new book called Social 
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Ruminations of a Programmer
OCTOBER 26, 2008
Brian Aker talking about assumptions on Drizzle and future of database technologies. "Map/Reduce will kill every traditional data warehousing vendor in the market. Those who adapt to it as a design/deployment pattern will survive, the rest won't. Database systems that have no concept of being multiple node are pretty much dead. If there is no scale out story, then there is not future going forward.
Code Simplicity
OCTOBER 17, 2008
A big part of writing secure software (probably the biggest part) is simplicity. When we think about software security, the first question that we ask is, “How many different ways could this program possibly be attacked?” That is, how many “ways in” are there? It’s a bit like asking “How many doors and windows are there on this building?
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The Agile Manager
OCTOBER 13, 2008
There’s a lot riding on IT in the current economic climate. In tight times, businesses rely on efficiency, and IT investments will be expected to create a lot of that efficiency. But while IT assets may help the business tighten up, IT execution must also tighten up to match the times. That doesn’t mean IT projects have to execute flawlessly. They never will, as there will always be situations and events that challenge even the most experienced of teams.
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 11, 2008
Many people understand that occasionally one needs to DeFrag your hard drive. remove and reorganize the clutter. then add new content. The same holds true for your brain. In slightly less than a month I will head to Denver, Colorado for DeFrag 2008. This conference bills itself as accelerating the "aha" moment in Enterprise 2.0. I will be both a speaker and panelist. in other words I will engage and participate.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2008
Here is the last one of the series of blog posts on the highlights from the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin that I attended last week. A rather long entry which tries to capture what, to me, has been one of the best days ever at any conference I have attended this year. And here is why.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2008
Here is the first of a series of blog posts I will be sharing over the next couple of days on the highlights from the Web 2.0 Expo I attended & presented at last week in Berlin. Starting with this one picking things up from last week, with the usual weekly progress report, and then sharing a link to one of the various interviews I did throughout the week.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2008
It is that time again where I go ahead and share with you folks the weekly progress report. This time around from Week 36, which marks a new milestone on my quest to giving up on corporate e-mail: NINE months without using e-mail! Yay!! At the same time I have put together a couple of interesting links which I am sure you will enjoy reading, specially since they would provide you with some sound advice on how you can challenge your Inbox and, finally, take control over it!
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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.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 17, 2008
Mobile connectivity: A reality? A myth? The future of Enterprise 2.0? An illusion? What role do mobile providers play? The one we want? The one they want? Here is a story on my experiences with one of them. Welcome to Mobile 2.0! Or perhaps not just yet.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 16, 2008
Last night was the final debate. gee. Obama. McCain. or the Northstar Nerd? I have run no vicious attack advertisements, and I promise. two pocket protectors for every nerd in America! You can even cast your vote for my cause via CreateDebate. See my prior post with a link to my debate. Last week while on a business trip to the East Coast, WNYC (New York City's NPR radio station) mentioned that a typical citizen in Minnesota (the home of the Northstar Nerd) has the great fortune to be seeing
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 14, 2008
As I have been hinting in a couple of previous blog posts, I am on the road again! This time around in Madrid to take part in a panel discussion around Social Innovation at IBM's Innovation Summit Pro-Voke, taking place this coming Thursday! Here are also some other details as to why I am really excited about this event.
Ruminations of a Programmer
OCTOBER 12, 2008
I have been dabbling around with some lazy optimization techniques in designing functional data structures. I am using Scala to implement some of the functional data structures of Okasaki. hence thought it would be appropriate to think aloud of some of the lazy optimization that Scala offers. Scala is a big language with myriads of features and some unfortunate syntactic warts that will definitely rub you the wrong way till you get comfortable with them.
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2008
And if you are ever wondering how to best get in touch with yours truly while at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin, here are a few options / choices for you. Pick the one that suits you the best and really look forward to meeting up while in there! If you are going to be there and if you are reader of this blog, don't be a stranger. Say Hi!
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2008
If you are planning on going to the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin, but don't know just yet how you are eventually going to make it, you may as well go and read this blog post, because I may be able to make that task slightly easier. All in all as a token of gratitude for the lovely conversations we have been having on this blog all along! Want to meet up in Berlin?
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2008
Back from a wonderful holiday and from a business trip to Belgium, it is now time for that blog post with the progress reports on what's happened over the last few weeks of giving up on e-mail at work. About time! Lots of interesting insights, as well as a huge milestone achieved! Second part of the challenge now executed! Sweet!
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2008
I promised I would get back to providing some more results from the search results for " Distinguished Engineering Lecture Series " it just took me a while! However, at this point I've added everything to the Engineering Learning Wiki and it's search engine for seminars. If your desire is for computer science lectures to monitor what's happening in this field: Computer Science at Columbia.
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2008
Hi Folks. I won't be posting for a while. This Saturday I marry off my daughter, Karen. Matt is a most welcome addition to the family. Click upon either image to view full sized.
Code Simplicity
OCTOBER 10, 2008
What is a computer? You’d think that would be a fairly simple question. After all, I’m using one to type this up, I ought to know what it is, right? I mean obviously, it’s a…computer! I mean, it’s got a keyboard, and a monitor, and there’s that box down there… But what is it that makes all that stuff a computer ?
Ruminations of a Programmer
OCTOBER 8, 2008
Today I am going to talk about maps, not the java.util.Map , but, map as in map-reduce or map as in scala.List.map. Of course all of us know what map is and map does, and how this powerful concept has been used in all functional languages that we use on a regular basis. I will talk maps in the context of its implementation, as we find in all the languages, which brings out some of the important principles of using tail recursion.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 9, 2008
I used to think of LinkedIn as a glorified Rolodex. Although it was useful to maintain contacts with business associates, there was little value that a participant derived from this social network. Although it was nice to see how many contacts you had, other than consultants who were trying to sell themselves by answering questions, the value to the discussions was almost nill.
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 6, 2008
First day back at work after a wonderful holiday and on the road again to my next business trip! This time around to Mechelen, Belgium, to speak at IBM's Innovation event "Shape Your Future". All of that while the InnovationJam 2008 just kicked off a few hours ago! Ready to Jam?
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2008
As you watch McCain or Obama speak, do you ever wish you could have your own personal teleprompter for creating eLearning modules? If the answer to that question is "yes", and it should be (having a good script enhances your content). The question arises how can you effectively read your script, look at your animations, and create your modules?
Ruminations of a Programmer
OCTOBER 2, 2008
I needed a List with fast random access capabilities. Standard implementations of a List takes O(i) to access the ith element. I am using Scala and arrays do not really cut as a well-behaved functional data structure. Besides I needed dynamic resizing, persistence and good worst case complexity. Anyway I was trying to justify implementing Okasaki's Purely Functional Random Access Lists.
Ruminations of a Programmer
OCTOBER 3, 2008
In an earlier post , I had wondered why the Erlang virtual machine does not host a more diversified set of languages. "BEAM provides an ecosystem that offers phenomenal scalability with concurrent processes and distributed programming, which is really difficult (if not impossible) to replicate in any other virtual machine being worked upon today. After all, it is much easier to dress up Erlang with a nicer syntax than implementing the guarantees of reliability and extreme concurrency in any of y
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2008
I won't bore you with the details, but while cross-training for the Outer Banks Marathon today on my bicycle, I experienced some dramatic equipment failure. The end result is I went flying with no time to react and hit my head hard on the asphalt pavement. As I type this, I have a mild concussion, a sore body and a headache. I'm okay, but my helmet is history.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2008
Happy Birthday to Google. They are ten years old in my 52nd year. Who would have dreamed how the web and Google would affect our lives? In honor of their birthday, Google has created a web site which reverts you to the year 2001. A Googler's Odyssey: Google 2001 Index and Search. search against the 2001 index. pull up either the 2008 or 2001 web site result.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
OCTOBER 28, 2008
Here is the next blog post from the series of entries sharing some further insights and highlights from the Web 2.0 Expo, held in Berlin last week. Here we go with Day 1.
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