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Terrorism Defense: A Failure of Imagination. The 9/11 Commission report talked about a “failure of imagination” before the 9/11 attacks: The most important failure was one of imagination. We do not believe leaders understood the gravity of the threat. The terrorist danger from Bin Ladin and al Qaeda was not a major topic for policy… Continue reading Terrorism Defense: A Failure of Imagination

New York Times on Identity Theft. I got some really good quotes in this New York Times article on identity theft: Which is why I wish William Proxmire were still on the case. What we need right now is someone in power who can put the burden for this problem right where it belongs: on… Continue reading New York Times on Identity Theft

London: Stock Market Shut Down Averted Guardian . Details of the central bank emergency meeting that decided in real-time not to shut down the UK's financial system. The UK's status as a global financial hub (and many, many of its jobs) is based on its ability to maintain real-time communications/operations in the Canary Wharf area… Continue reading London: Stock Market Shut Down Averted

Ed Nails it Here here . Adware is one of the reasons I switched platforms. [John Robb's Weblog]

Productize your application from a common base. Duane Johnson has a great how-to on productizing your application. Which basically means that you have a core application that you need to tailor ever so slightly for each customer. How do you do that and still ensure high reuse? Well, that’s just what Duane’s approach explains.  [Riding… Continue reading Productize your application from a common base

The Mediocre Emergency. Let's say you work at eBay. Your site goes down. How many people will drop what they are doing and figure out how to get it back up and running? Everyone from PR to server guys will be on the case. Or let's say you work at Aetna. A fire rips through… Continue reading The Mediocre Emergency

A Lack of Imagination Richard Forno : Contrary to America's infatuation with instant gratification, protective imagination is not quickly built, funded, or enacted. It takes years to inculcate such a mindset brought about by outside the box, unconventional, and daring thinking from folks with expertise and years of firsthand knowledge in areas far beyond security… Continue reading A Lack of Imagination

Eric covers competitive strategy for ISVs. Frans Bouma: If you're an ISV, want to become one, or just want something really valuable to read, just go over to Eric Sink's latest entry. Covers competitive strategy for ISVs. I enjoy Eric's writings too. Great stuff.  [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

An interview about Basecamp, Backpack, Getting Real, and more at TomPeters.com. Tom Peters posted a long interview with me about Basecamp, Backpack, our “Getting Real” philosophy of doing big things with small teams, among other things. Thanks to Erik Hansen for conducting the interview and to Cathy Mosca for handing the details.  [Signal vs. Noise]

Feeling the slowdown blues after going 0.13?. It’s somewhat ironic that we heralded Rails 0.13 as being a great move forward for the performance of Rails and then half the threads on the mailing list is about “Rails is sLOOOW!”. We’ve found the problems, though. The first was with the MySQL/Ruby bindings, which called GC.start… Continue reading Feeling the slowdown blues after going 0.13?