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SponsorYesterday, I mentioned that my work, 451 Research, hosts small "round table" events to talk with practitioners and IT buyers.
CA Technologies FY2015Q1 marginalia, experimenting with CriticMarkup
While reading through CA’s recent quarterly conference call transcript, I thought I’d try out an idea I had this morning: using CriticMarkup to DIY what Genius.com does: annotating content. It worked OK, except I didn’t invest time in getting the HTML output right, so it looks kind of crappy - you can see the raw markdown file as well.
I actually tried using Genuis.com as well, but it started acting goofy so I gave up.
I’m okay but not great at managing my time. In addition to being an editor and writer on my radio show, I’m also the boss, and deal with budgets, personnel stuff, revenue and spending questions, and business decisions. My worst habit: when I should be writing something for this week’s show, I’ll procrastinate by looking over some contract or making some business phone call or doing something else that actually isn’t as important as writing. Which is to say: I procrastinate by working. I wonder if that’s common.
At least us worker-cum-management types aren’t alone.
The interview also has a nice list of stuff he as This American Life us, including lots of Google Docs!
Good DevOps Marketing, Fixing Enterprise IT, Microsoft's $4.4bn cloud businesses, Booze
Meta-dataHello again, welcome to #4. Today we have 16 subscribers, but one of them is my work address. So, we're +2! If you're a subscriber, I'd love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io.
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SponsorMy work, 451 Research puts on "round-table" events where end-users and their managers discuss various aspects and best practices of enterprise IT.
So no, this isn’t helping. This is externalisation of cost. This is shirking of responsibility. This is not using technology the way it should be used, or the way it could be used, but the way that it can be used to inflict maximum possible harm - to provide the illusion of choice without actually enabling better choices.
Episode One Hundred and Twenty Six: Solving The Problem
When I was at RedMonk, I had to buy my own health insurance. Yes it’s a stupid nightmare and no one really cares enough to fix it. Good luck storming the castle.
In the latest The New Stack Podcast, I talk with Alex while he’s on the show floor. We talk about SAP, Microsoft and open source, OSCON, and then talk with Bitnami’s Erica Brescia who has interesting things to say, among other things. about Azure use rising.
(Source: http://thenewstack.io/)
The 6 hour manager, funding infrastructure, microservers mind-mapping
(Hello there! I'm finally getting around to doing a newsletter-y thing. I like the ones I see, the single page of links. In the bricolage style of weblogging, if that word still exists, that I operate in by default, I thought I'd narrow down to a sort of "Selections from the Daily Wunderkammer" for the daily email. I'll try it for awhile and see if it works out.)
(The next iteration will drop this introductory text and just be the, you know, "
We’re putting all this stuff out there, thinking that we’re having conversations. But actually, we’re creating evidence for somebody else’s drama.
Apple paid out $5bn to developers in H1: Google $5bn in the last 12 months.
— Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) July 22, 2014
I’m guessing from quarterly calls.
When looking to split a large application into parts, often management focuses on the technology layer, leading to UI teams, server-side logic teams, and database teams. When teams are separated along these lines, even simple changes can lead to a cross-team project taking time and budgetary approval. A smart team will optimise around this and plump for the lesser of two evils - just force the logic into whichever application they have access to. Logic everywhere in other words. This is an example of Conway’s Law in action.