It wasn’t all that long ago that Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) occupied most of the area out by East Charleston Drive and Shoreline Drive in Mountain View, California. Today, most of SGI’s old campus locations are wholly owned and used by Google. There was even a point, albeit rather brief, that I considered working [...]
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According to a report published by Jobfox in October, 2008: yes.
Notable in the report of the top 25 recession-proof jobs: Software Design and Development ranked number 5 on the list of, Product Management was ranked number 23 (although depending on how you define Software Product Management, it could technically be lumped into the Software [...]
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One of the things I find fascinating as a Product Manager is what users find to be “valuable” to them, and what they describe as a product they would look forward to using every day.
In his book, Emotional Design, Donald Norman outlines how humans interact with everyday things, and how different aspects of the [...]
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UserVoice, an online community where product users can provide feedback and vote on ideas for products, came out of beta today and declared that they are now ready to be considered as an Enterprise-level solution according to an official company blog posting.
Pricing for the service starts at “Free” for up to 10,000 users (and [...]
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The MySQL 5.1 release went out with a long list of bugs, according to the founder and original developer of MySQL Michael Widenius in his personal blog:
We still have 20 known and tagged crashing and wrong result bugs in 5.1 35 more if we add the known crashing bugs from 5.0 that are likely to [...]
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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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There’s been a bit of press lately about Oracle squashing the BEA AquaLogic product line, and some people have gone as far as assuming that this means that BEA’s AquaLogic Interaction (previously Plumtree Foundation and Plumtree Corporate Portal) is going away as well. The good news for AquaLogic Interaction customers is: Oracle is not going [...]
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