Looked at two new (for me) search-engines this week, Cuil (pronounced cool) and Keyboardr. Keyboardr is a geek-project and, like Mac’s Quicksilver, is all about navigating via a keyboard. Cuil, which I had heard of before, I was made re-aware of by a recent Stanford entrepreneurial thought leaders podcast, in which its creation and the [...]
Discipline is the mother of all innovation…! I’ve decided to dedicate one hour per day to learning Java. If I remember correctly, Jeremy did something similar, but I’m not sure it was for this language. Reasons for doing this are: A good intro-language for code-dummies like me! Built to be cross-platform: not only PC-wise, but [...]
Here’s a quick question to all people used to either interact with or being part of software development teams. Consider a software vendor, a good one, and its technical headcount. It is no secret that R&D teams aren’t made of software developers only. In order to be deployed successfully, architectures and code need to be tested by [...]
Last week, the unsexy world of lower software layers witnessed some significant consolidation moves: Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL AB, and Oracle Corporation acquired BEA Systems. I know you guys browsing the blogosphere want to hear about Paris Hilton (this one keyword to boost visits from search engines), and most of all Twitter, Google, Apple, MS-bashing (which I [...]
No it is not. And when you think about it’s kind of a good thing. Because it means that the path from technology to revenue is that much shorter. Of course, the other side of that coin is that there are many people competing for that same revenue. After writing my last post on this, [...]
In the previous episodes of this serie, we’ve addressed the Availability, Scalability and Performances aspects of HA Architecture. In this one we’ll concentrate on the future of these architectures and the emerging technologies to tackle specific HA constraints. Technology Trends The future is a G word : GRID. Grid of memory, grid of CPU and [...]
If you’re serious about software development &/or IT infrastructure, you can’t miss the Tech Ed developer training event between November 5th and November 9th in Barcelona. All the best developers from the very best European software publishers will be there. And I’ll be there too (as the outlayer, the worst developer in the room), to [...]
Despite the fact that summer is a slow blogging period, Tech IT Easy remains attractive for bloggers: please join me in welcoming Rémy Miralles, a new blogger on Tech IT Easy. We have been looking for a long time to add a technical profile to our team of bloggers: as a French software engineer, Rémy [...]
Some people manage to analyse and remember information by writing, hearing or visualizing it. I am definitely part of the latest type. This is why I am really interested in tools appearing on the web to visualize some experiences like shopping, search and social networking. Some of these tools serve a practical purpose whereas others [...]
If you’re a software-as-a-service publisher (eg Google as far as Google Earth or Google Gear aren’t concerned, SalesForce, Idylis, TellMeWhere, Netsuite, Excentive, Facebook, Zlio, Brainsonic, Microsoft as far as Live or Titan are concerned, U.[Lik], eBay, Yahoo!, Inspirational Stores Group, Amazon, 37Signals, Neocase, Advance IT, Constellation, blueKiwi, SideTrade, Twitter, etc.), here are 5 reasons you’ll [...]
I had dinner tonight with a friend and technical consultant jumping from a 3-month mission for an industrial companies to another 3-month mission for another industrial company. So far, so good. The issue is that one of these clients hates to pay for software and has the weird habit of wanting to develop in-house all [...]
Dubai isn’t dumb when it comes to economic policy. Some economists there have noticed software giants (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, SAP, IBM, BEA, Yahoo!, etc.) acquired companies on a valuation related to the number of software developers such preys accounted. A few years ago, it was commonly agreed that a software giant would be willing [...]
Felt like sharing some thoughts on SaaS with you today – those who already know something about SaaS won’t learn anything from me here – and I’m willing to learn if you’re in the mood to comment. But those who are discovering what Software as a Service is might find something to take away. 1) [...]
Most early stage software publishers or ISVs (independent software vendors) rightly focus on production (software development) and sales in the beginning of their growth curve, and hence seldom have a marketing department from scratch. I believe this is the right approach: when facing a certain resource scarcity, focusing on generating revenues rather than deploying cost [...]
I discovered (via Benjamin) the Microsoft Beginner Developer Learning Center. Back in computer science University this year, I was trained to hack code in Java, Matlab (signal processing), VHDL (electronics) and even in PHP / MySQL during a practical database session – but hardly in C# or on the .Net framework tools, which would be [...]
