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Generally speaking, there are only a few ways to make money on the Internet. There are e-commerce companies and marketplaces - think Amazon, eBay and Uber - that profit from transactions occurring on their platforms. Hardware companies, like Apple or Fitbit, profit from gadgets. For everyone else, though, it more or less comes down to advertising. Social-media companies, like Facebook or Twitter, may make cool products that connect their users, but they earn revenue by selling ads against the content those users create. Innovative media companies, like Vox or Hulu, make money in much the same way, except that they’re selling ads against content created by professionals. Google, which has basically devoured the search business, still makes a vast majority of its fortune by selling ads against our queries.

NICHOLAS CARLSON, “What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs.”

StackStorm automates and monitors a core DevOps asset: the software delivery pipeline - 451 Report

I’ve been speaking with StackStorm on and off for a few months now. I finally got around to writing up a report on them, available for clients. Here’s the 451 Take: StackStorm fancies itself an automation company, and with experience from Opalis Software, it’s little wonder. What’s interesting about its approach is that it’s automating the DevOps pipeline, including the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) process. This may seem like a minor concern, namely, working on developer tools.
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Coté Memo #058: Cloud ads, amateur coffee drinkers, orchiwhu?

Follow-up Confirmed: ActiveState is far from dead ;) One of you notified me that maybe coffee isn’t so bad for your health - really, who knows. I hear eating a lot of bread was once a thing too. From the article: Why the apparent reversal in the thinking about coffee? Earlier studies didn’t always take into account that known high-risk behaviors, such as smoking and physical inactivity, tended to be more common among heavy coffee drinkers at that time.
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The first wave of IBM/Apple enterprise iOS apps

A good looking list from the press release: Plan Flight (Travel and Transportation) addresses the major expense of all airlines — fuel — permitting pilots to view flight schedules, flight plans, and crew manifests ahead of time, report issues in-flight to ground crews, and make more informed decisions about discretionary fuel. Passenger+ (Travel and Transportation) empowers flight crews to offer an unmatched level of personalized services to passengers in-flight – including special offers, re-booking, and baggage information.
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Coté Memo #055: It's cold in Toronto

Follow-up I mentioned the Software Defined Talk recording last week, the episode is up for those who were waiting. At DockerCon EU - turns out I’ll be at the Amsterdam DocerCon the first week of Dec, just for a day and half, though. If you’re there, it’d be fun to meetup. I’ll have been traveling all of that week, so you can see my brain turned to mush!
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Coté Memo #054: CA World wrap, Docker orchestration

Tech & Work World Quick Hits Rackspace reports solid growth in the third quarter - time to turn back on the love-pipes, I guess. The point being: it’s hard to figure out how to rate a company, esp. on short-term financials. Microsoft rebrands Lync as ‘Skype for Business’; readies 2015 releases (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet) - people tell me that Lync now is great, and I hope it is.
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Coté Memo #053: there's a lot of earth for software to eat, day 1 of #CAWorld

Follow-up It’s been awhile. The family and I were on vacation for a bit in Paris, and then I was at the OpenStack Summit. Tech & Work World Quick Hits Why Podcasting Is Bigger Than You Think – Edison Research (Annotated Tab Pile) - there’s a thought-technology battle going on to convince people that podcasts are a viable advertising medium. Sounds good to me. SquareSpace, right?
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Coté Memo #052: Two types of clouds and headless doctors

Follow-up Hey there! It’s been awhile. I warned you, things are monkey-balls over here. Tech & Work World Quick Hits Nancy Gohring summarizes OpenStack vendor sports of late - an excellent, concise overview of the OpenStack movements of late. Nancy is one of the best tech reporters out there working on cloud. I’m glad she’s over on thenewstack.io too. Double Whammy: IBM Sheds Chip Unit As Financial Woes Hit Hard - Power lives on.
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When in Rome, format your PowerPoints like the Romans do

One of the “tricks” you learn in programming - “soft skills,” apparently they used to call them - is that you should match the style and formatting of the code you’re editing. If you’re starting with your own code from scratch, no problem, go crazy. But if you’re like most developers in the world and maintaining an existing code base with incremental improvements, you’ll more often than not be editing and adding to existing code.
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