April, 2010

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Next Gen PHP Frameworks : spf13.com

SPF13

'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. Next Gen PHP Frameworks. With the release of PHP 5.3, PHP released the most significant capabilities in years.

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Is 3D TV dangerous?

Trends in the Living Networks

This morning I bumped into neighbor and fellow futurist Mark Pesce at our local cafe. He was on interviewed on the 7pm Project last night about the dangers of 3D TV ( see the video here ) so we chatted about that. Mark has been involved in 3D for close to two decades, most famously in creating Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML), and before that helping Sega to develop a head-mounted display in the 1990s.

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Parenting is parenting

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

I started blogging about autism, and being the parent of an autistic son, 5 years ago. My main goal was to help myself make sense of it all, to understand my own feelings about my son’s autism. Here is some of what I’ve figured out. I hope it helps. Parenting is a challenge , no matter who your kid is. No matter what you do, someone somewhere will tell you that you are doing it wrong.

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Vivek Kundra Steps Up to Cloud Computing's Next Challenge

Cloud Musings

'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.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Windows Home Server Codename ?Vail.

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Monday, April 26, 2010. Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” Public Beta Available Today! Today is an exciting day for me. As you know, one of the products I work on is Windows Home Server. Today we’re excited to announce that the next version of Windows Home Server (codename “Vail”) is available for you to try.

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The IT Stable

A CIO's Voice

'As we cut costs and downsize, most IT shops are learning to do more with less. IT has been considered overhead so it makes sense to trim staff in this department first. You are only given so many stalls in your stable so you need to fill it with high performing horses. Right? To begin, you need to assess your roster of players. Areas to analyze are: What was their past performance?

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There are TWO possible attitudes companies can have to social media

Trends in the Living Networks

Last week I gave a presentation on the future of business to the top executive team of a large fast-moving consumer goods company at their quarterly offsite meeting. One of the issues they were keen to hear about is the rise of social media and how they should respond. I told them that there are essentially two possible attitudes a company can have to engaging with its customers in an open world.

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Don’t write them off just yet

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

Seth Godin doesn’t write about autism, and yet much of what he writes and says comes across as if it were written just for the parents of an autistic child. Today’s article – Accepting limits – from his blog is a perfect example (emphasis is mine): Isn’t it absurd to focus so much energy on ‘practical’ skills that prep someone for a life of following instructions but relentlessly avoid the difficult work necessary to push someone to reinvent themselves i

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Open Group Publishes Guidelines on Cloud Computing ROI

Cloud Musings

'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.

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Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. By Werner Vogels on 28 April 2010 11:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today Amazon Web Services has taken another important step in serving customers worldwide: the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region is now launched.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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ReBoot – Are There Any Real Barbers Left?

A CIO's Voice

'The last few years I have been at a loss for a decent haircut at a reasonable price. I cannot seem to find the right guy or they keep on retiring. When I was kid I would go with my father to Brooklyn to get my haircut. My barber at the time was one of these old school guys that did it all with a scissors. It was a great haircut that would last me weeks – all for $8.

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The Golden Hammer

SPF13

kyle may Every so often a “new” technology catches on. Right now it’s nosql databases. A couple years ago it was Ruby, before that it was java. Each arise because they propose a solution to an existing problem, or in other words a better way of doing something. something, but not everything. Unfortunately knowing when to use the technology requires actual experience with it, which never seems to catch up to the hype engine quickly enough, so consequently the technology transforms into a “golden

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Use your imagination! The potential of Annotated Tweets

Trends in the Living Networks

Aside from the announcement of Promoted Tweets, Twitter's advertising platform, the most important thing coming out of Twitter's Chirp developer's conference was a hazy pre-announcement of Annotated Tweets. In a nutshell, developer's will be able to let users to attach up to (probably) 512bytes of structured metadata to a tweet (plans are to increase this to 2KB), which can be used in one or many 'annotations' with additional data.

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Autism and “Drive”

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

Most autism interventions focus on making the child “more normal&# or “less autistic&# , and this is where many of the problems come in. (I’m sure parents who try to make their “geeky&# kids more athletic or their “jocks&# more academic run into basically the same problem.). Earlier this year I read (and reviewed ) Dan Pink’s latest book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.

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Guide to Centralizing IT Operations: How to Link Tasks and Tools with an Automation Platform

For many IT admins, business as usual is a juggling act. Job schedulers and scripts run on autopilot, applications and operating systems can’t speak the same language, and other tools—like RPA or MFT solutions—operate in isolation. On a good day, everything runs smoothly. But good days are rare; more often than not, something goes wrong and you’re stuck putting out fires.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: The Army's iPhone Story

Cloud Musings

'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.

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Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editor's pick - All.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editors pick. By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2010 03:02 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am excited that Amazon Cloudfront has been selected as one of the 10 Editors pick of 2010 by Streaming Media. Amazon Cloudfront is the Content Delivery Network (CDN) that is dead simple to use both from a technology and a business point of view.

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Termination

A CIO's Voice

'Terminating an employee is a stressful time for you and your team. It is even more stressful when you are the new CIO expected to turnaround an underperforming IT team. Your job is to make changes and get the department back on track. Doing that requires you to terminate underperformers to make room for others that can add real long-term value to the team and ultimately yourself.

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The Golden Hammer : spf13.com

SPF13

'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. The Golden Hammer. kyle may. Every so often a â??newâ?? technology catches on. Right now itâ??s nosql databases.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Five steps to effective content distribution strategies

Trends in the Living Networks

When I wrote the book Living Networks the content distribution landscape was in the early stages of unfolding. Yet the strategies I prescribed then seem to be just as valid today. Here they are, excerpted from Chapter 8 on Next Generation Content Distribution: Creating Value When Digital Products Flow Freely. POSITIONING FOR CONTENT DISTRIBUTION. 1.

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You’re going to love this kid (and this book)

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

You’re 22 years old, fresh out of school. It’s your first day as a teacher, and you learn that one of your students is a 6 year old autistic boy. You are given a stack of reports and files that tell you, in detail, how “bad&# this little boy is and how hard it is going to be to teach him. You want to sneak out the back and run away.

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Inspiration at the CIO Level

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

Although Microsoft is clearly my technology partner and platform of choice, I take inspiration where I can find it. Thursday night's Boston SIM meeting featured a guest speaker: Mark Sunday, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Oracle Corporation. His topic was "Leading in Times of Transition," and it was an educational and inspiring talk.

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I am looking for new application and platform services - All Things.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am looking for new application and platform services. By Werner Vogels on 22 April 2010 05:17 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The ecosystem of new application and platform services in the cloud is the future of application development. It will drive rapid innovation and well see a wealth of mobile, web and desktop applications arrive that we couldnt dream about a few years ago, and these building

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Turnaround CIO

A CIO's Voice

'Being a turnaround CIO has its good and bad points. First there is the excitement of trying to fix things and implement process and procedures that are currently not in place. You come into a company with a fresh set of eyes and the eagerness to get things done and functioning. All eyes are on you to show change. You are a shiny new penny. The bad points.

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NoSQL Databases

SPF13

langalex Amazon, Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter all started on sql databases (all but Amazon on MySQL) and have transitioned to incorporated nosql databases into their infrastructure, though many utilize both relational databases as well as non-relational ones. I’ve compiled a few resources to help bring you up to speed on nosql databases. Major sites using NoSQL Amazon : (Dynamo) [link] LinkedIn : (Voldemort) [link].

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The rise of robot journalists

Trends in the Living Networks

I have an abiding interest in robots and the role they play in our future. I am also a keen observer of where journalism is going. As it happens, the two domains are intersecting. Robotic journalist conducting interview. Pic source : Singularity Hub, Charlie Catlett. Singularity Hub reports: Researchers at the Intelligent Systems Informatics Lab (ISI) at Tokyo University have developed a journalist robot that can autonomously explore its environment and report what it finds.

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What if they had been diagnosed autistic?

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

In his book Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism , author Roy Richard Grinker mentions chess legend Bobby Fischer (p. 63) as someone who may have been an undiagnosed autistic. When I read David Edmonds’ book Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How A Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine , I thought the same thing. (For more discussion on the subject check out the Bobby Fischer talk page on Wikipedia.).

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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By the CIO, For the CIO, Of the CIO

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

As fate would have it, I'll be spending a lot of time in the next month at events oriented toward Chief Information Officers. Given that they are generally the internal business sponsors behind KMA's client projects, that's not a coincidence, but there's a real concentration of excellent events coming up that you should know about if you are a CIO or aspire to be one: April 15 (OK, this one's in the past) -- Society for Information Management, Boston Chapter, (aka Boston SIM ) hosted Mark Sunda

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Windows Home Server ?Vail? Drive Extender.

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Windows Home Server “Vail” Drive Extender V2–New Features. Mark Vayman, a lead program manager on the Home and Small Business Server team just tossed out all the new features in Windows Home Server Drive Extender, version 2.

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IT Careers: Can You Survive Unemployment? By Meridith Levinson

A CIO's Voice

'Here is a great article by Meridith Levinson regarding unemployment and IT professionals. “If you lose your job, get ready for a wild ride on the emotional rollercoaster. Your daily routines, lifestyle, relationships and identity will be upended, say IT execs who survived long job searches and unemployment to tell the tale.” By Meridith Levinson.

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There should be no box to begin with!

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

I was recently reading the profiles of the Association of MBAs regional committee and this phrase attracted my attention: "[ Derek Chesire believes] that 'out of the box' thinking does not exist: there simply should be no box to begin with". Yes absolutely! I like this simple way to put it. I suppose what he really meant is that out of the box in fact does exist but is mostly ineffective at generating innovation and competitive advantage.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.