Thursday, May 12, 2005

Write a business case

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 I’ve been a software developer for over eighteen years.  I’ve seen a lot of success during that time, I’ve also seen failure.  As many of y...
Friday, May 06, 2005

Bidirectional Traceability

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I was busy studying for one of my Masters courses and I’m having to describe a teaching scenario that I have utilized in the last few years ...
Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Look at AJAX and Greasemonkey

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So I’ve been teaching a course on ASP.NET.  And it’s a funny thing that after all my time spent learning about code behind forms, server sid...
Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Technology won’t be proprietary

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The rate of technology change is staggering. It’s faster now than it’s ever been. The internet is becoming a utility like our electricity, w...
Wednesday, April 13, 2005

VB, Refactoring & .NET

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So as I settle into my new job I am looking into many things. Mostly focused on continuous improvement, the SDLC process, having set iterati...
Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Software economics and code quality

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So, I heard back from the NRC after I asked about software quality, start-up success and CMMI. They got back to me very quickly with a good ...
Wednesday, March 09, 2005

NRC and Software Economics

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I think I may have stumbled across a source of information for my software quality and start-up success relationship query. If you have been...
Saturday, February 19, 2005

Execute, execute, execute

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So I’m still searching for evidence on the positive relationship between software quality and technology start-up success. And I found some ...
Sunday, January 16, 2005

OpenSource vs Microsoft conundrum

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Well it’s happened, after 8 years as a Microsoft disciple and most of these as a Microsoft certified professional I’m seriously considering...
Wednesday, January 12, 2005

It’s time to get back to work

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It’s been a great sabbatical, but it must come to an end. Three months of learning, research, home renovations and gearing up for a new st...
Sunday, January 09, 2005

Digital natives; a note for parents

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If you have children born since 1984 you may want to consider this whitepaper written by Marc Prensky to gain insight into the forces whic...
Monday, January 03, 2005

Gratitude Measure

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So after my new years resolution musings I set out to see if I could find a measure for gratitude. The short answer; nothing was easily ...
Saturday, January 01, 2005

Can you measure gratitude?

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Last night during our new years celebrations the resolution question came up. Most people wanted to do something like run four times a wee...
Friday, December 17, 2004

e-learning in British Columbia, the grass is very green

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Whenever I have a chance, I do some reading and research for the learning technology roadmap I am building for my local school district. ...
Monday, November 22, 2004

LAMP servers gaining traction

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The open source world continues to mature. I’ve been a follower of computer and software technology for over 16 years and, for me, the mos...
Thursday, October 28, 2004

Innovation in our school districts

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I needed to get a reality check on all this thinking I was doing regarding MAN’s , emerging digital technologies, networks and how it is al...
Monday, October 04, 2004

Communities, learning, technology, socializing and anarchy; the road we’re on.

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Over the last week I learned a lot. A lot about education, learning, technology, how the brain works and the road ahead. I gestalted. The g...
Saturday, October 02, 2004

Brothers are great, and the ”Valley of Death"

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So my brother sent me an email reminding me of the origin of the expression, “valley of death”. In the context of it being used for startu...
Friday, September 24, 2004

Disciplined SDLC and technology start-up success

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I’m back to utilizing my proven skills and knowledge again.  I was asked to perform technical due diligence on a couple of start-ups.  What...