Looking for leadership in all the wrong places. Fingerprints of Unhappy Companies All Look the Same. John R. Brandt writes the column Brandt On Leadership for Industry Week. His latest article Come On, Get Happy, is another gem. Brandt says, It never ceases to amaze how completely the managers and employees of unhappy companies —… Continue reading Looking for leadership in all the wrong places
The President's No-Win Boxes
The President's No-Win Boxes. The President has boxed himself into some no-win boxes. He can spin and stutter until doomsday but, the pork filled Medicare Bill and the steel tariffs, are boxes with no way out while saving face. Senator John McCain and many other conservative Republicans who believe in the 2000 Republican's platform calling for… Continue reading The President's No-Win Boxes
Gi-Fi?
Gi-Fi?. Om Malik breaks the latest story: high up on the spectrum, it's gigabit wireless: While you can squeeze gigabits per second out of long-haul wireless using equipment from Proxim and a few others, short-range Wi-Fi-like gigabit networking is out of the question. Or is it? Om Malik finds that a serial successful businessman in… Continue reading Gi-Fi?
Unveiling The Wireless Networking Starter Kit, 2nd Edition
Unveiling The Wireless Networking Starter Kit, 2nd Edition. The second edition of my book, The Wireless Networking Starter Kit, is out!: My co-author Adam Engst and I spent three months on this revision, which was originally planned to be a small update to the original 360-page book, but blossomed into 560 pages for the same… Continue reading Unveiling The Wireless Networking Starter Kit, 2nd Edition
Web-Host Outsourcing
Web-Host Outsourcing. Saw this tonight in the newsletter. Langa Letter: Web-Host Outsourcing “Fred Langa explores the pros and cons of outsourcing Web sites and spotlights reader recommendations for finding the perfect Web host.” Definitely noting this one for myself to look at in March when I have to decide whether or not to renew with… Continue reading Web-Host Outsourcing
Software Craftsmanship
Software Craftsmanship. Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship (though it can be), it's design. Design is that nebulous area where you can add value faster than you add cost. The New York Times magazine has been raving about the iPod and how Apple is one of the few companies that knows how… Continue reading Software Craftsmanship
Greenspun
Greenspun: “Thus did students who are within months of graduating with their $160,000 computer science degrees learn how modern information systems are actually built.” [Scripting News]
Ford on IM
Ford on IM. Ford on IM: Peter Ford, chief architect for MSN Messenger, speaks with Eric Allman in an ACM Queue interview. The first half is heavily about the various protocols, their history and adoption, but the latter half gets into the user experience of various types of messaging. Things that caught my eye included speculation… Continue reading Ford on IM
Cheap RegEx
Cheap RegEx. Cheap RegEx: Ben Forta posts regular-expressions to match the postal codes of US, Canada and UK, and others post similar handy expressions. This type of stuff is hard to find in search engines… most hits will point you to ways… [JD on MX]
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I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I did!