Tag: videos

  • What does IT need to start doing to become a software defined business?

    I was asked to talk to do an internal, “brown-bag” style talk at a company this week. I chose to do a slightly more technical-oriented version of the talk I tend to give, commentary and pointers on moving your orginization over to relying on more and more custom written software to run your business. Here,…

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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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  • The video recording of this week’s Software Defined Talk, right there. If you prefer audio (I do!) check out the official show-notes. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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  • docker has a straightforward CLI that allows you to do almost everything you could want to a container. All of these commands use the image id (ex. be29975e0098), the image name (ex. myusername/webapp) and the container id (ex. 72d468f455ea) interchangably depending on the operation you are trying to do. This is confusing at first, so…

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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 #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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  • The Docker roadmap

    Coté Memo #039: research agenda crafting, what Docker will spend $40m on, RAX no longer for sale

    Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #039. Today we have 46 subscribers, so we’re +1. Dandy! 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…

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  • Why Did Docker Catch on Quickly and Why is it so Interesting? | The New Stack

    Excellent piece. Too bad my folks didn’t get around to writing it first, but at least now it doesn’t need to be written. The insights in developer relations are great. At a meta-level: It’d be interesting to “crowd source” analyst research agendas by just bundling up pieces like this and original work and having that…

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  • VMware vRealize

    Coté Memo #29: vRealize almost explained, Compuware gets bought, 1 year at 451

    (I cross post my week-daily newsletter here, but also feel free to subscribe to it directly if you’d don’t want to follow CoteIndustries.com regularly.) Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #29. Today we have 36 subscribers, so we’re +3 – good job, subscribers! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If…

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  • underdevpodcast: Summary We discuss thinking beyond human error as Bill starts to summarize the book Behind Human Error. It’s always helpful to look at how the system and process caused the wrong move. Also, thinking about hardware, and some nice feedback from designers. Subscribe to the feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderDevPodcast Your friends @cote and @BillHiggins Hardware, what…

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  • [Coté Memo #019] Selling DevOps, the WTF on industry analysts, champaign over health food

    Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #19. Today we have 30 subscribers, so we’re +1. I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsor Come check out cloud hijinks at 451’s HCTS conference Oct…

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  • Tasktop receives $11m series A to fund its ALM and devops integration ambitions (451 Report)

    One of the companies I’ve followed closely over the years took funding recently, for the first time. This short Analyst Note covers the funding, including this quick market overview: We expect to see more interest in the development space, driven not only by devops but also by companies’ increasing desire to use custom-written software to…

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  • Del.icio.us sold again, to YouTube founders

    Del.icio.us sold again, to YouTube founders

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  • Under Development- new podcast on software development

    I have a new podcast up that’s on the ongoing topic of software development, big and small, tools and practices, news and theory, old and new. I’m co-hosting it with Bill Higgins. I’ve talked with Bill Higgins for many years, and occasionally we’ve done a podcast episode together. He was in town a few weeks…

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  • For those who don’t have 3.5 hours, some highlights from #TheAppGap

    As I mentioned, a few weeks back I was in a recorded “think tank” put on by Dell which was, largely, about the changing nature of IT and how CIOs could go about managing it. For those who don’t want to nuzzle up to a 3.5 hour recording (perhaps with a six pack and some…

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  • CCOS #004 – Facebook culling, plain txt vs. f2f, dungeons

    Senior Dancy and myself are back to talk about life in a too connected world and oblique strategies for coping with the world outside out head. As ever, very soon, there will be a proper podcast. In the meantime, check out the video above, and here’s some show notes: The Facebook culling, by Kim –…

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  • DrunkAndRetired.com #183 episode up, in video form. Here’s the audio only, and remember, you can subscribe to the podcast feed to get the audio versions of each episode downloaded automagically. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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  • [new.livestream.com/accounts/…](http://new.livestream.com/accounts/1639890/events/2523952/videos/40302837/player?width=960&height=540&autoPlay=false&mute=false) This week I was lucky enough to be invited to a Dell hosted think-tank discussing how the application needs of companies are changing. You could also phrase it: “how is all that cloud stuff changing how CIO’s run their company’s IT?” It was a great session, driven by the discussion of the CIOs on…

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