SPF13
JUNE 20, 2011
'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Creating a Symfony2 Console Command. One of the weaknesses of PHP as a languages has always been itâ??s ability to write proper command line utilities.
Fountainhead
JUNE 1, 2011
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Real-World Financial Services Cloud. Cloud computing has been made very real today. As I subtly alluded-to in March, The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE Euronext) today launched their Capital Markets Community Platform (CMCP) along with partners EMC and VMware.
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Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 6, 2011
While Twitter started in the US, it is now a global activity. Below, courtesy of Twitter Grader’s Top Cities , is the list of the current top 100 cities in the world on Twitter, based on the total number of users who put that city in their location setting. We have color-coded it to make it easier to see the distribution: North America : 52 (of which 5 in Canada).
Social, Agile and Transformation
JUNE 9, 2011
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Thursday, June 09, 2011. Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Cloud Musings
JUNE 26, 2011
'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.
A CIO's Voice
JUNE 3, 2011
'As a CIO or department head it is important to establish a uniform practice of performance evaluation and tie staff compensation directly to performance. Many firms struggle with this task. Many IT shops fail at it. Staff management is the one area where there is no how to book. Instead, it is mostly trial and error-mostly error. Staff performance should be evaluated in various categories that align with your company’s vision and goals.
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Fountainhead
JUNE 1, 2011
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Hosting/Cloud Index: Update. Back in December, 2009, I proposed an index of hosting and cloud providers , and posited that these sample portfolios would be an excellent gauge of the markets perception of the state of the business.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 14, 2011
You may have seen the marvellous news that Iceland is crowdsourcing its new constitution. Draft clauses are put up on the Internet for people to comment on below, or on the Council’s Facebook page. Council meetings are open and streamed live, video interviews with council members are posted on YouTube, and they interact with citizens on Twitter.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JUNE 20, 2011
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Monday, June 20, 2011. How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 1.
All Things Distributed
JUNE 29, 2011
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Often we think about innovation as going after new unchartered territories, but it is also important to innovate in those existing dimensions that will remain important for customers.
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Cloud Musings
JUNE 23, 2011
'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.
SPF13
JUNE 15, 2011
'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Pandora's IPO. a sign of the times. Pandora filed their IPO today. By end of day Pandora was worth 3.2 Billion.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
JUNE 18, 2011
I had the great pleasure to attend this week's U.S. Open Championship golf tournament at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland. All in all, it was a remarkable experience on many levels: . the immense skill displayed by the players (as of this writing, Rory McIlroy was running away with the tournament), the beauty and challenge of a U.S.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 13, 2011
When I posted a little while back about using an external keyboard with the iPad , I promised to share how I use the iPad for work. When I bought the iPad I found it quite frustrating for a while in trying to use the iPad as I wanted, but I managed to work it out, and some of the elements that were missing at launch have been put in place. Here is what I have learned and how I use the iPad for work.
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Sean Daniel
JUNE 17, 2011
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Friday, June 17, 2011. How to Manually Configure SBS 2011 Essentials Internet Domain Name. Back in SBS 2003 timeframe, having an Internet domain name for remote access to your server started to become more and more essential. With the SBS 2008 product, we added the ability to work with domain partners directly inside of the product to obtain that domain name, and also configure it.
Nutanix
JUNE 29, 2011
Ever since we conceived Nutanix in September of 2009, we’ve been heads-down building the product and a business that have begun to hum
A CIO's Voice
JUNE 19, 2011
'I think it sums up the challenges of being CIO nicely. First day on the job as the new CIO you notice 3 envelopes in the top drawer of your desk. The first envelope says “Open Me.” Inside is a note from your predecessor that provides insight on the organization, issues, culture, concerns, etc. You read it, throw it in the trash and go about your business as the new CIO.
SPF13
JUNE 19, 2011
One of the weaknesses of PHP as a languages has always been it’s ability to write proper command line utilities. Yes PHP is pretty much built to drive the web, and it does that rather well, but there are plenty of reasons to want to be able to write a program that is callable from the command line that interfaces with your web app. Symfony2 does a rather good job at providing a nice toolset to build command line applications in php.
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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
JUNE 24, 2011
I'm reading a GREAT book that's a compilation of articles from the acclaimed journal for word lovers called "Verbatim," (note: link is to the mostly defunct web site) and am really enjoying the linguistic gymnastics that skilled writers have created for my entertainment. . The latest article I read appears to have been originally published (per this blog ) in 1986, and it introduces me to the term "semantic taint." .
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 30, 2011
When I recently ran a webinar series for Ketchum on Tapping the Power of Mobile, our second session focused on running successful mobile campaigns. Perhaps the most important thing that companies and agencies delving into mobile marketing need to understand is that there must be real value for customers and consumers in order for the campaign to have any success.
Sean Daniel
JUNE 14, 2011
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Tuesday, June 14, 2011. Windows Phone 7 Add-in for SBS 2011 Essentials and WHS 2011 (Release Candidate). Today the Release Candidate of the Windows Server Solutions Phone Connector for Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (aka Integrating Windows Phone 7 with your SBS 2011 Essentials Server) is available The purpose of this Add-in is to enable Remote Server Management tasks for SBS 2011 E
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
JUNE 18, 2011
'Vice President Joe Biden leading the charge. It is fascinating how words and phrases take on difference nuances of meaning depending upon their context. I guess that’s why it is so hard for computers (IBM’s Watson notwithstanding ) to understand and properly interpret human speech or, in many cases, writing. Take “911″ In most contexts and for most people, that would be the police/fire emergency number.
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 22, 2011
I’m at Sydney Town Hall, where iconic Australian designer Marc Newson is speaking at the City of Sydney’s Design Excellence Forum. Marc has had a powerful impact on many facets of design. His 1986 Lockheed lounge (one of which most recently sold for $2.1 million) and the 1988 Embryo chair were early landmarks in his career. Initially working in furniture, he has now designed cars, boats, bicycles, cookware, Nike shoes, executive jets, and across many, many other domains.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 19, 2011
Some nice data on the demographics of LinkedIn has just been compiled, shortly after it has reached 100 million users. Notable are the country breakdowns, shown here: It is interesting to see India and Brazil so highly ranked, while Netherlands, Australia, and Canada, with populations of 17 million and 22 million, and 33 million respectively, have the highest uptake per capita outside the US.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 17, 2011
Turntable.fm has certainly created a sensation – over the last couple of weeks it has been one of the hottest topics on the web. Deservedly. It really changes the game in making music truly social. And the concept, the strategy, and the execution are superb. One of the things is really well conceived is their Lame/ Awesome button which shows on every channel.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 7, 2011
Tomorrow morning I am giving a keynote to the managers of a national shopping center group about the power of social media in retail, focused on fashion. Here are the slides for my keynote. As always, the slides are not intended to stand alone, but to provide visual support for my presentation. The Power of Social Media in Retail. View more presentations from rossdawson.
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Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 29, 2011
Crowdsourcing is rapidly gaining visibility as a mainstream business topic. The current issue of Outsource magazine has a good article titled The Road of the Crowd. It was written by Steve Bynghall , who produced the recent IBF24 event run by Intranet Benchmarking Forum, and who is collaborating with me on some projects. It’s a good article providing a nice overview of the field, and well worth reading in full.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 3, 2011
Today I spoke at Australian Chambers Business Congress on Build Your Business with Crowdsourcing. Below are the slides from my presentation. Usual disclaimer: these slides are meant to accompany my presentation, not to stand alone. But in fact this time there is a little more detailed content than usual in my slides, as this was intended as a highly practical session on how to approach crowdsourcing.
SPF13
JUNE 15, 2011
Pandora filed their IPO today. By end of day Pandora was worth 3.2 Billion. The amazing thing about stock is it really has no direct correlation to a companies actual performance, but is rather valued based on perception, hype and desire. All very human emotions, not logic. Apparently all the people who purchased Pandora $P stock today hadn’t read Pandora’s filing with the SEC.
SPF13
JUNE 8, 2011
Justin Hileman and I presented at MongoNYC 2011 to a packed house. Our presentation outlines both why someone would want to use MongoDB for ecommerce and how we overcame some of it’s limitations by incorporating mysql into our infrastructure. Presenting at MongoNYC 2011 Blending MongoDB and RDBMS for ecommerce View more presentations from Steve Francia.
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