January, 2008

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Secret for Networking at Events - Prenetworking

SoCal CTO

I've never been able to walk into a large group of people and feel like I can "work the room." Sure, I've read various articles on this stuff, but honestly, I still struggle with meeting interesting people. I seem to be very adept at meeting financial planners, attorneys, accountants, etc. - and after 10 seconds of conversation, I'm at a loss. I can make small talk with them, but unless I'm going to see this person a few times or unless they have a tech specialization, ummm, not the best use of

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The Social Graph: Issues and Strategies in 2008

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

One of the hottest topics in the online world in the last couple of years has been the growth of social networking services such as Facebook and MySpace , as well as the addition of a social element to existing user experiences. Despite riding several waves of hype, it's now clear that the social networking space will only get hotter in 2008 according to most watchers.

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Essential Development Problems

The Programmer's Paradox

Over the years I've worked in many development sites, read tonnes of code and heard way too many horror stories about development projects gone bad. While software development is inherently risky, many of the problems I have witnessed were self-inflicted, thus fixable. It is an odd historically-driven aspect of programming, our need to make the work more difficult than necessary.

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IT Effectiveness is Measured by Asset Yield

The Agile Manager

We tend to consider an IT project successful if it is delivered “on time and on budget.” From an IT governance perspective, however, this doesn’t tell us all that much. At best it is an indicator of basic operational competence, that fundamental project controls are working. At worst it’s a false positive, indicating nothing more than the team was particularly lucky that all assumptions held true, or that their contingency was sufficiently large to absorb the impact of those assumptions that did

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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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Social Networking Entreprenuerial Opportunities

SoCal CTO

Last Saturday, I was a panelist at the CalTech - Social Networks event. It was a really good event with lots of interesting folks in attendance. I would guess that there was about 100 people - on a Saturday in Pasadena. That shows some interest in the topic. The presenters had some interesting things to say on a wide variety of topics. A post by Elrend Wilhelmsen discusses some of what was discussed.

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The Social Graph: Issues and Strategies in 2008

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

One of the hottest topics in the online world in the last couple of years has been the growth of social networking services such as Facebook and MySpace , as well as the addition of a social element to existing user experiences. Despite riding several waves of hype, it's now clear that the social networking space will only get hotter in 2008 according to most watchers.

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Abstraction and Encapsulation

The Programmer's Paradox

Some of our most fundamental programming concepts are steeped in confusion. Because software development is such a young discipline, we often question and redefine many of the basic definitions to suit our personal understandings. While this is a problem, it is also to be expected. Terms and definitions are the building blocks on which we build all of the higher concepts, if these are weak or incorrect they can lead us in circles long before we realize it is too late.

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Web 2.0 Predictions for 2008

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

It's the first work day of the new year and I thought I'd take some time to offer up my predictions for what will happen on the leading edge of the Internet this year. 2007 saw Web 2.0 -- defined here as the pervasive two-way Web used for social media , mashups , user-powered Web applications , and social networking -- go far more mainstream than it had in 2006.

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Web 2.0 Predictions for 2008

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

It's the first work day of the new year and I thought I'd take some time to offer up my predictions for what will happen on the leading edge of the Internet this year. 2007 saw Web 2.0 -- defined here as the pervasive two-way Web used for social media , mashups , user-powered Web applications , and social networking -- go far more mainstream than it had in 2006.

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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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Web 2.0 Predictions for 2008

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

It's the first work day of the new year and I thought I'd take some time to offer up my predictions for what will happen on the leading edge of the Internet this year. 2007 saw Web 2.0 -- defined here as the pervasive two-way Web used for social media , mashups , user-powered Web applications , and social networking -- go far more mainstream than it had in 2006.

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