SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. I always take a very different approach in early conversations. If I’m being asked to do startup software development, I’m going to push fairly hard on key questions that the startup needs to have answered before

Software Development 117

Software Development Development Software Course 117

Steve Farber

AUGUST 9, 2009

I don’t know how I’ve missed him; he’s just never popped up on my radar screen–until just a couple of days ago when my wife showed me this YouTube video. Taylor Mali is not just a poet, he’s a full-time, WORKING poet, which I had thought was a bit of an oxymoron, to say the least. More important, he’s a major force in the poetry slam movement (a movement that’s generated some controversy–as any interesting one does), and a past-president of PSI.

Education 85

Education Video Leadership 85

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

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

Leadership 80

Leadership Technical Review Product Management Systems Review 80

The Recovering Engineer

AUGUST 24, 2009

Subscribe to Receive Updates Home About This Blog Archives Great Reading Contact Me my business about me Communication Skills Persuasion DISC Model Family Relationships Parenting Leadership Skills Post Series Reflections Decision Making From Our Cats Personal Change Resolving Conflict Problem Solving Video Browse > Home / Resolving Conflict / Road Rage, Interpretations, and Workplace Conflict Road Rage, Interpretations, and Workplace Conflict August 24, 2009 by Guy Harris Filed under Resolving C

Video 80

Video Chemicals Engineering Leadership 80

Advertisement

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

Network

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Google Makes an Acquisition to Help Build Google Wave. Google acquires [link] a online word processor that lets people to work together in real-time [link] ht @itworks [from [link].

71

71

Code Simplicity

AUGUST 11, 2009

When I started working on Bugzilla in 2004, it was a difficult time for the whole project. There were tremendous problems with the code, we hadn’t gotten a major release out in two years, and a lot of the main developers had left to go do paid work. But eventually, thanks to a bunch of new members in the Bugzilla community, we released Bugzilla 2.18.

Software 56

Software Programming Open Source Project Management 56

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

APRIL 15, 2009

What happens when a traditional Knowledge Management System like IBM's Global Business Services KnowledgeView gets hit by social computing within the firewall? Well, Knowledge Portal is born. Here is a story on "Adapt or Die" for traditional KMS. Tags: Social Computing Enterprise 2.0 Social Software Social Networking Social Media Collaboration Communities Learning Knowledge Sharing KM Knowledge Management Remote Collaboration Innovation IBM Networking Social Networks Conversations Dialogue Commu

System 51

System Firewall Social Conference 51

The Programmer's Paradox

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

It all started with a dream about infinity. Well, not just one infinity, but an infinite number of them, spanning out in all directions. A repeating pattern of infinities splitting off from other infinities. It's a simple pattern, but also a very complex one. It was intriguing enough to compel me to spend some time exploring my thoughts a little deeper.

System 45

System Examples Programming Testing 45

QAspire

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Quotes to Energize Your Monday! Once in a month, I spend some good time reading books at Crossword. It is not only an opportunity to read/buy some great books, but also to spend some quality time with myself thinking about what I read there. The ambience at Crossword is so good for reading, I have to push myself out.

Coaching 45

Coaching Software Review Leadership Energy 45

Advertisement

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

Compliance

Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Leadership – What’s Love Got To Do With it? by Starbucker on November 29, 2009 “It’s the most powerful thing there is&# – John Wooden John Wooden is a basketball coaching legend – in his 27 years at UCLA, his teams had a winning percentage of 81%, and they won a unfathomable 10 NCAA titles.

Leadership 146

Leadership Coaching Weak Development Team Sport 146

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Great post by John Shiple. He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. LA CTO Forum Dealmaker Media Digital Family Reunion Startups Uncensored Social Media Club, LA Twiistup Mindshare LA LA Hadoop Meetup Dorkbot Geek Dinners LA Cloud Computing LA Web Application Developers LA PHP Developers

Network 97

Network PHP Media Social 97

Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

I’ve just learned about an extraordinary organization in Los Angeles called The Fulfillment Fund , whose mission is “to mentor, counsel and guide disadvantaged high school students to achieve a college education.&# Their focus is the LA area where the high school graduation rate is only around 50%. According to their website, the students in their program “defy this statistic by graduating from high school and going on to college.

Banking 63

Banking Education Programming Organization 63

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 10, 2009

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

Leadership 79

Leadership Journal Product Management Energy 79

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.

Artificial Inteligence

The Recovering Engineer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Subscribe to Receive Updates Home About This Blog Archives Great Reading Contact Me my business about me Communication Skills Persuasion DISC Model Family Relationships Parenting Leadership Skills Post Series Reflections Decision Making From Our Cats Personal Change Resolving Conflict Problem Solving Video Browse > Home / Reflections / Why I Don’t Want to Be a Tolerant Person Why I Don’t Want to Be a Tolerant Person September 7, 2009 by Guy Harris Filed under Reflections Leave a Comm

Video 56

Video Chemicals Engineering Leadership 56

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2009

IBM - Smart Business - United States. So far today in Rochester, seen IBM Smart Business [[link] a new cloud-integrated iTunes-like app marketplace & service. [from [link]. Are SOA and Agile a Good Match? - ebizQ Forum. RT @Peter_ebizQ Do SOA and Agile work well together? You know, like chocolate and peanut butter. [link] < Hot convo, join in [from [link].

SOA 71

SOA Agile Cloud 71

Sailpoint

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Next week, I’ll be attending the Gartner IAM Summit in San Diego. It’s safe to assume that the state of the IAM/IdM market will be top of mind at the conference, so I thought I’d share my observations: Despite tightened budgets during 2009, we are seeing strong demand for identity governance. Companies continue to invest in strengthening controls around access to their critical applications and data.

Government 52

Government Marketing Conference Budget 52

Code Simplicity

DECEMBER 1, 2009

A long time ago, I wrote an essay called “Why Computers Suck” (it was given the title “Computers” and “ What’s Wrong With Computers ” in two later revisions, and the original title never saw the light of day). The article was fairly long, but it basically came down to the idea that computers suck because programmers create crazy complicated stuff that nobody else can understand, and complexity builds on complexity until every aspect of a program becomes

Software Review 68

Software Review Study Software Development Programming 68

Advertisement

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.

Analytics

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

MARCH 13, 2009

I get asked this question quite a few times: Why are you an IBMer? Well, here is a quick blog post with a video clip that lasts for a bit over a minute that describes it quite nicely. And nearly 13 years and counting! Tags: Networking Innovation Spain Connections Social Networks Kool-Aid Knowledge Sharing Social Computing Communities SmarterPlanet Social Media Trust Social Software Smarter Planet Enterprise 2.0 Relationships Knowledge Management Social Networking Communication English Graduate K

Social 49

Social Media Network Video 49

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. Normally, when I am talking to the founder of any startup trying to figure out what they need to do, one of the things I always try to do is understand their business at its core.

Metrics 90

Metrics Report Media Social 90

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Because I was the Acting CTO for eHarmony at it's start, I quite often get introduced to people who have an idea for a startup company that is based on some kind of matching algorithm. They describe the company as the eHarmony of careers, clothes, jobs, college, tutoring services, doctors, service companies, investments, etc. In fact, you can get a good idea of these various things by just searching on Google for "eHarmony of" startup.

eLearning 78

eLearning Research Data Examples 78

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It was great to hear from a long, lost colleague the other day. Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. Of course, I immediately gave him the whole spiel on Visible Networking and Steve was totally game to make our networking visible. Remind me about your background Steve?

Product Management 71

Product Management Fractional CTO Network Course 71

Advertisement

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

Open Source

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses. He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally).

Marketing 68

Marketing Case Study Media Social 68

Lead on Purpose

MAY 23, 2009

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

Product Management 75

Product Management Leadership Sport Games 75

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2009

BriefingsDirect Transcripts: BriefingsDirect Analysts Unpack the Psychology of Project Management Via 'Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0' and SOA. Top Analysts Unpack the Psychology of Project Management Via Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0 & SOA: [link] A terrific convo IMO. ;-) [from [link]. Video review of Andrew McAfee’s “Enterprise 2.0″ « Customers Are Talking.

SOA 71

SOA Technical Review Project Management Video 71

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Twitter / Jerry W. Purple: ZINGERS. Take a look at th. Take a look at this fantastic image on Web 2.0 and co-creative community: [link] and [link] (via @twHIVE_W20) [from [link]. [link]. Take a look at this fantastic image on Web 2.0 and co-creative community: [link] and [link] (via @twHIVE_W20) [from [link]. Enterprise 2.0: Study Shows Adoption is Real - ReadWriteEnterprise.

Open Source 71

Open Source Study Conference Enterprise 71

Advertisement

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.

Applications

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

5 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use Cases. 5 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use Cases: [link] [from [link]. About Mashups and Linked Data | Mashstream. Mashups and Linked Data: [link] Good primer with latest issues. [from [link]. What Enterprise Architecture Brings to the Business | Interviews | ITBusinessEdge.com. What Enterprise Architecture Brings to the Business: [link] [from [link].

Architecture 71

Architecture Virtualization Enterprise Social 71

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Preparing The Workforce E20summit Short. RT @ITSinsider @gyehuda's preso from #e20s [link] [from [link]. Dreamforce 09 : The Cloud Computing Event of the Year - salesforce.com. Up early to do a TV spot then head to the Pentagon. The big event this week is [link] in SF. The "cloud event of the year." [from [link]. 8 Ways to Use SharePoint for Social Computing - Digital Landfill.

SOA 71

SOA Social Enterprise Cloud 71

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Go Dog Go – Google Open Sources New Prog… « /SAbackchan. RT @Furrier Google News: Go Dog Go - Google Announces Open Source Programming Language GO [link] [from [link]. Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter. Listening to @k_kristensen talk about collaborative performance with E2.0 at #e20s. @swardley on left. [link] [from [link].

Open Source 71

Open Source Enterprise Social Performance 71