Category: longform
Essays, articles, and other original content.
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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)…
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Coté Memo #056: the $110,000 a year blogger, investing in barf bags
Tech & Work World Quick Hits Puppet Labs pushes ahead with more staff, broader enterprise DevOps deployments – a recent 451 Research report from Jay Lyman on my team, now free for everyone. Software Defined Talk #17: DevOps is the New Agile – another fine episode of Software Defined Talk. Be sure to check out…
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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…
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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) –…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Coté Memo #051: Meetings suck, links galore
Tech & Work World Quick Hits Join the Foglight beta The look of a leader Developer Events Run Down: What’s Coming Up and What Not to Miss – nice list of developer related events coming up Comparing Uber &co. To traditional taxi fares – yes, indeed. With New Analytics Service, Salesforce Challenges Startup Visualization Crowd…
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Coté Memo #050: not much on Friday, pretty boring for #50
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #050. Today we have 54 subscribers, so we’re +1. Keep your best behavior up for this new person! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the…
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NBC Universal turned to Spark to analyze all the content meta-data for its international content distribution. Metadata associated with the media clips is stored in an Oracle database and in broadcast automation playlists. Spark is used to query the Oracle database and distribute the metadata from the broadcast automation playlists into multiple large in-memory resilient…
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Coté Memo #049: how to brief analysts, tech co.’s splitting up, noise canceling-enough
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #049. Today we have 53 subscribers, so we’re +/0. See what happens when I stop posting? I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the archives, and,…
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Selling to Hoodie and the Sticker-Festooned – Building a Developer Relations Program to Win Over Developers as Paying Customers
I’m just about the give a short presentation on developer relations and marketing at our HCTS conference. For those who didn’t make it, here’re the slides and the “script” I typed out. As you may recall, I wrote a large report on this topic published back in August. It’s been fun talking with people about…
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Coté Memo #046: I don’t like dick-bags either, & more on marketing platforms
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #046. Today we have 53 subscribers, so we’re +1. The crazy pills are working! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always,…
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What I mean when I say “fine”
I’ve found myself saying “and that’s fine” a lot recently. I have a weird lexicon of words and their corresponding hacked semantics that I often use in more of a way to entertain myself than to inform other people. Having this weird lexicon keeps me entertained and also lets me filter in and out people…
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Coté Memo #047: Selling a \”platform\” is one of the more difficult tech marketing tasks you’ll ever do
# Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #047. Today we have 52 subscribers, so we’re +/-0. I should write more awesome stuff to get more sign-ups! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, [you should subscribe](http://coteindustries.com/memo) to get the daily email.) See [past newsletters…
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Coté Memo #047: Selling a \”platform\” is one of the more difficult tech marketing tasks you’ll ever do
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #047. Today we have 52 subscribers, so we’re +/-0. I should write more awesome stuff to get more sign-ups! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in…
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Coté Memo #046: Who’s got the story?
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #046. Today we have 52 subscribers, so we’re +/-0. I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come…
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Coté Memo #045: Double up to catch up. You have to spend money to make money. When you see this cup empty, just refill it w/o asking. QED
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #045. When we hit #050, let’s all have an extra drink – I know I will! Today we have 52 subscribers, so we’re +1. Good job, subscribers! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to…
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Coté Memo #044: Very little today. Work, work, work!
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #044. Today we have 51 subscribers, so we’re +/-0. I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come…
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Coté Memo #043: EMC + (HP XOR Dell) == what? “Fabrics” returning, and the joys of bicycle jousting
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #043. Today we have 51 subscribers, so we’re +/-0. I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come…
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