PleasingTheCustomer. All agile methods stress the importance of direct interaction between the developers of a system and customers who are its eventual beneficiaries. The agile manifesto said “Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project”, which is there to stress the high frequency of interaction. Extreme Programming stresses this through its practice… Continue reading PleasingTheCustomer
Month: August 2003
Power Outage Traced to Dim Bulb in White House
Power Outage Traced to Dim Bulb in White House. by Greg Palast I can tell you all about the ne're-do-wells that put out our lights tonight. I came up against these characters — the Niagara Mohawk Power Company — some years back. You see, before I was a journalist,… [Third Party WatchBlog]
The Privacy Law in Canada
The Privacy Law in Canada, Canada –The Globe and Mail. A customer calls your company and a call-centre representative uses caller ID to pop up her electronic file and greet her by name. Bingo! The customer summons you to a closed-door review with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. She charges you with violating her privacy. She didn't… Continue reading The Privacy Law in Canada
The Power Outage of 2003
The Power Outage of 2003. The graph of the day, courtesy of Berkeley By the way, George W. Bush, President of the United States, just applauded the way that people are handling “this rolling blackout.” Is he really unaware of the difference between blackouts and rolling blackouts, such as the fact that rolling blackouts are… Continue reading The Power Outage of 2003
A Review of Presidential Candidate Websites
A Review of Presidential Candidate Websites. What Home Pages Tell (And Don't Tell) About A Candidate. This article provides screen shots and links to 9 candidate sites, and evaluates them based on the following categories: Ease of contributing money, Excitement, Clarity of purpose, Clarity of message, Amount of useful information, and Professionalism. [beSpacific]
We Lied About Performance
We Lied About Performance. A 15 page ColdFusion MX 6.1 performance brief has been posted on the Macromedia web site. Based on these numbers it looks like we lied about the performance gains in this new version, it's not what we said at all, on some platforms it is even faster! This document has all… Continue reading We Lied About Performance
Memory is Not Enough for KM
Memory is Not Enough for KM Last week I posted two items related to knowledge management: “Advertising Practices Applied to Law Firm Marketing” discussed mining documents to determine client interests; “Relationship Mining” described software that allows determining who knows whom within an organization. After writing these, it occurred to me that some lawyers may wonder… Continue reading Memory is Not Enough for KM
Missing the Librarians for the Trees
Missing the Librarians for the Trees. The Myth of Generation N “For decades, social scientists and technologists have alternatively predicted the emergence of 'computer kids' or a 'net generatio'”—a cohort of children, teenagers, and young adults who have been immersed in digital technology and the digital way of thinking since their conception. This new generation,… Continue reading Missing the Librarians for the Trees
Chris Pirillo
Chris Pirillo. E-mail publishing is dead (it has been folded, spindled, and mutilated). Long live RSS. If the world was a perfect place, e-mail publishing would still be a viable model for getting the word out. But marketers and morons (two groups that are far from mutually exclusive) have flooded the space with noise. So… Continue reading Chris Pirillo
Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman (also in InfoWorld). 802.15.3a (the leading contender is Ultra Wide Band — UWB) is one of those technologies that you have to wish was here yesterday What's the joy with UWB? Very high speeds over very short distances. Imagine walking in with your laptop and even as you get near your office, a file transfer starts… Continue reading Glenn Fleishman