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.
Coté Memo #057: Is Cloud Foundry a Thing, EU Coffee, and developers
Tech & Work WorldThe Cloud is DevelopersIt's an exaggeration, but for the most part "cloud" is all about supporting developers. What I mean by this is that it's not exactly the best way to run packaged applications: there's VMware, Linux, etc. for that it seems.
When I was working on cloud strategy at Dell, I'd often joke that we should do some field material ("field" == "sales") that was a crude decision tree, like you'd see in magazines.
Unlike Office Online and Google Docs, the Dropbox badge doesn’t support real-time editing. That means if you edit a document while someone else is working on it, you’ll still be able to save it locally, but you’ll have to manually figure how you want to merge in your changes.
Everything sounded awesome until I got to that part…
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.
You want people to work as much as possible to push the product and company out of uncertain territory into profitability, right? Wrong. What you will do is push people to the edge of burnout and unhappiness. They’ll eventually leave your company.
From Open (Unlimited) to Minimum Vacation Policy
This is a management point I’ve been thinking about over the years: it turns out well rested employees are better long-term. I don’t think most (American) management believes that, at all.
The subtle point to make explicit here goes the other way: employees are work-gluttons if you let them be. They “over-eat” and can’t help themselves. Part of management’s job, then, is to help employees here.
Both management and employee are at fault, and there’s lots of work to be done.
The main weapon at valve station 30 on Aug. 5, 2008, was a keyboard.
Mysterious ’08 Turkey Pipeline Blast Opened New Cyberwar Era
Get your Internet of Things PR counter-measures ready!
Pizza is evolving into a digitally dominated food
Papa John’s Adds Google Wallet, Passes 50% Digital Sales, 451 Yankee Group
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Cloud is developers
I often brow-beat people into the notion that “cloud is all about developers.” That’s hyperbolic - there’s actually a lot more to cloud than just supporting custom written software…and yet, that seems like the bulk of it. By “developers” I mean you’re running a SaaS (you’re a company who sells the SaaS, like an “ISV” would sell packaged software) or you’re a company that uses cloud-based applications to help run their business (think of online banking, or Uber, or mobile loyalty apps like the Starbuck’s app…or internal applications just used to help run a company).