When it comes to predicting the future, the shorter ahead you try to predict, the better you’ll generally be at getting it right. Graeme Philipson at the Sydney Morning Herald published an article outlining his ten prophecies for what will happen with IT over the next ten years. Of particular interest to me was [...]
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Just as the Netbook devices start to become popular – you know, those tiny laptops with ridiculously tiny screens and keyboards – the founder of Netvibes, Tariq Krim, announced plans to release a new software stack, named Jolicloud, to provide a streamlined OS for the Netbook platform.
Most of the Netbooks today come pre-loaded with [...]
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According to a survey conducted by Intel that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, 50% of 200 companies surveyed said they found the use of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace as either “a major security concern” or “somewhat of a security concern.”
Of the companies surveyed, of course the majority [...]
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Force.com (the developer site for Salesforce.com) is now offering a Python library and test harness allowing developers to access the Force.com Web Services from Google App Engine applications. According to details on the company’s official blog:
Once it is installed in your Google App Engine application, that application can start to seamless make callouts to [...]
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Amazon.com recently released its Public Data Sets service for applications hosted on Amazon’s EC2 compute platform.
According to Amazon:
Previously, large data sets such as the mapping of the Human Genome and the US Census data required hours or days to locate, download, customize, and analyze. Now, anyone can access these data sets from their Amazon [...]
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First off, a few disclaimers: no, I didn’t just slam my hand down on the keyboard to write the title of this post. And no, I don’t have much of a background in accounting or finance, but I have spent a good chunk of my career working in IT operations, managing budgets and expenditures.
One [...]
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One of the most frustrating things about developing software products is not being able to get enough QA testing coverage in before the product release, and having to make trade-offs in features because there isn’t enough time to test a particular browser or OS.
uTest.com offers an interesting solution: a full army of virtualized QA [...]
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