Anne wrote a reasonable blog a while ago on why SOA was and wasn't dead but I'd like to go a bit further today and say that generally the concept of thinking appears to be dead. The value of 'thought' and thinking in IT has diminished, in a way that mirrors
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Okay so now in the iTunes Store is my first attempt at an application that does something actually useful. Its the Carbon Travel Tracker. I travel a lot, not as much as some but quite a lot more than most, two questions always came to mind
1) Just how much
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decoded.co have started quite the PR and education puff around the idea that they can teach you to code in a day. Or to be accurate on their site they say they
To teach anyone code in a day.
Now clearly that sentence doesn't make sense as coding is a
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Ever listened to a French Art house film and thought 'I wish I could do that'? Ever walked through the streets of Paris listening to people and thought 'How do they do that?'. For too long being French has been thought of as something that you need education for,
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Ever looked at a play and thought 'I wish I could do that'? Ever looked at the Oscar winner for best actor and thought 'How do they do that?'. For too long acting has been thought of as something that you need training for, something that requires rigour, experience
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Ever read Shakespeare and thought 'I wish I could do that'? Ever read Steinbeck, Dickens, Austen, Pratchett or Proust and thought 'How do they do that?'. For too long literature has been thought of as something that requires rigour, experience and actual talent to achieve. But no longer.
I
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Ever looked at the Mona Lisa and thought 'I wish I could do that'? Ever looked at the Turner Prize and thought 'How do they do that?'. For too long art has been thought of as something that you need training for, something that requires rigour, experience and actual
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Today it was annouced that Progress Software are going to 'divest' their BPM and SOA technologies and instead are going to focus on cloud technologies that don't really exist yet. This is indicative of a mentality I see around so first lets start with some credentials:
1) I worked with
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99% of IT is done outside of Silicon Valley in Enterprises. I like the valley and San Francisco is my second favourite 'new' city (Sydney comes first, London, Rome and Paris remain... well London, Rome and Paris). The problem is that 99% of the media about IT is about what
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Today it was annouced that Progress Software are going to 'divest' their BPM and SOA technologies and instead are going to focus on cloud technologies that don't really exist yet. This is indicative of a mentality I see around so first lets start with some credentials:
1) I worked with
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I'll admit it, when I'm writing code just for myself to learn stuff I tend not to unit test. When I'm in a team environment I insist on it as the person coding isn't going to be the person maintaining. Unit Testing has lots of benefits in terms of project
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Okay so a while ago I had an idea, that people should blog about ideas they had and tag them as 'prior art' as a way to defeat patents. Well today I read an article about Google patenting a location specific ad service which takes in local information (the weather) to
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