2008

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Conflict Resolution Tips: Task Oriented People with People.

The Recovering Engineer

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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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Links for 2008-12-04 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The emerging case for open business methods | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com. I make a case for an apparently emerging era of open business methods powered by 2.0 concepts and the Internet. I include examples, case studies, and challenges. If you're in business in the 21s century, you should read this. 100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web | Online College Blog and School Reviews.

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10 Great Strategic Benefits of Blogging

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

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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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Partial Applications with binds in Scala and Haskell

Ruminations of a Programmer

One of the fun parts of learning a new language is the involuntary urge of pitching its features against your favorite language of the same paradigm. I have been a Scala enthusiast for quite some time now, and have been trying to learn Haskell. it's no wonder that I have been passing through many of such "oh! it's flatMap in Scala" like rants, realizations and enlightenments.

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Features, Simplicity, and the Purpose of Software

Code Simplicity

One of the best ways to keep an app simple is, of course, to limit how many features you implement. Twitter , for example, has very few features, but is enormously successful. The limited number of features of Twitter make it really easy to keep the application simple, which lets the developers focus a lot on the quality of the system, the polish of each individual feature, etc.

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Creatively Speaking

The Programmer's Paradox

Somewhere in my youth, I came into possession of a very simplified model of the human brain. I'm not sure from where, it was so long ago its roots were lost in time. The idea is simple, the brain consist of three, and only three things. First is memory. We can memorize stuff. By that, I mean that we take some fact, associate it with a number of keys and then, on demand, we can return the fact as needed.

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Conflict Resolution Tips: People Oriented Individuals with Task.

The Recovering Engineer

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 / Communication Skills , DISC Model , Family Relationships , Resolving Conflict / Conflict Resolution Tips: People Oriented Individuals with Task Oriented People Conflict Resolut

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Links for 2008-12-03 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Product Design And Development Is Outsourcing's Next Big Thing - Outsourcing Blog - InformationWeek. The info is a little dated but the numbers are so large that it's compelling information about how product development and design is being outsourced. Of course, outsourcing is just the first step, open sourcing and Product Development 2.0 are the next big things.

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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 2008-12-01 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Biggest Battle Yet For Social Networks: You, Your Identity And Your Data On The Open Web. Facebook continues to make major and mostly proprietary moves as the battle for Web identity heats up. Most companies are following open standards but Facebook Connect is a creation of its own making. However, Google is actually making more interesting moves in this space in many cases and most folks aren't even paying attention.

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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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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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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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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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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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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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Value and Meetups - SEO / SEM

SoCal CTO

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.

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Meetup - Avoiding Negative Comments

SoCal CTO

As a follow-up to my last post on Meetups SEO / SEM , I was just booted from the group and any of my comments about issues I had with the way the group was handled along with my negative vote about the event were deleted from the group. It makes me wonder if Meetup is actually encouraging this kind of thing.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Hard to Build Large Advertising Support Business

SoCal CTO

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.

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Web 2.0 Strategy

SoCal CTO

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.

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Technology Impact - Performance Spread

SoCal CTO

Fascinating article by Andrew McAfee - Technology Beats a Full House - discusses how variation in performance spread decreases over time as systems become optimized. He shows that the spreads in IT heavy industries has greater variation over the past decade. winners were increasingly separated from losers.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up.

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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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Social Innovation

SoCal CTO

It's funny how things intersect in life. I just ran into Chris Gammil's post New Era of Social Innovation where he describes it as: The model takes the best of the OPEN model and pushes right out into the open, further distributing idea sourcing, team forming, development, commercialization and economic distribution. What are some of the drivers? The social web is making it easier find people with similar passions for creation/innovation The social web is making it easier to find people with com

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Local Event Organizers Need to Adopt Social Media

SoCal CTO

A while ago I posted about Secret for Networking at Events - Prenetworking where I recommended that people should look at who's attending the event prior to going to the event in order to make their networking more effective. I've received a lot of positive feedback on the post. Since I posted on this and since I've been using this approach for quite a while, it has become pretty obvious that part of the reason that old school organizations / event producers are not getting the value of providin

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Entreprenuer Questions

SoCal CTO

Chris Gammil and I just spent some quality time together with a new, private group that is advising start-ups here in Los Angeles. The goal is to have start-ups learn from each other and from others who have been through the experience. So, far it's turning out great. The primary question we ask is: What's Keeping You Up at Night Chris provided a list of common issues: How much is enough?

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Start-up Advisors

SoCal CTO

Andrew Warner from Mixergy posted - Before Looking for Funding, Get an Advisor. He recommends that early stage companies get input from people who know the funding process, know the vertical, etc. That's great advice. Of course, it's sometimes hard to find advisors. On the flip side, as a person who regularly advises early stage start-ups, I often have a hard time finding interesting start-ups.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

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.

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10 Great Strategic Benefits of Blogging

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

Toolbox for IT Join Now / Sign In My Home Posts Connections Groups Blogs People Communities Vendors Messages Profile Achievements Journal Blog Bookmarks Account / E-mails Topics Business Intelligence C Languages CRM Database IT Management and Strategy Data Center Data Warehouse Emerging Technology and Trends Enterprise Architecture and EAI ERP Hardware Knowledge Management Networking Project and Portfolio Management SCM Security Storage Telephony Web Design and Development Wireless Infor Java Li

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10 Great Strategic Benefits of Blogging

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

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10 Great Strategic Benefits of Blogging

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

Toolbox for IT Join Now / Sign In My Home Posts Connections Groups Blogs People Communities Vendors Messages Profile Achievements Journal Blog Bookmarks Account / E-mails Topics Business Intelligence C Languages CRM Database IT Management and Strategy Data Center Data Warehouse Emerging Technology and Trends Enterprise Architecture and EAI ERP Hardware Knowledge Management Networking Project and Portfolio Management SCM Security Storage Telephony Web Design and Development Wireless Infor Java Li