On a recent post, reacting to a post from Shane Patterson, Ted Neward gave us what I think is actually the most accurate analogy, so far, concerning the job of a software architect: At the risk of offering up yet another of those tortured metaphors, let me proffer my own architect analogy: an architect is […]
Image Credits: Jon Nicholls
I am pleased to announce the first milestone of the DITA Open Platform version 1.0.0 http://www.dita-op.org/ This milestone is a test release in order to see if there is interest in the DITA community for what the DITA Open Platform project plans to offer. It is also a mean to collect suggestions and ideas from […]
The Project Manager is a human ESB, a Human Service Bus (HSB). The HSB receives messages from humans, transforms them, aggregates them, sometime filters them, and forwards them to other humans or HSBs. And they do that, following the corporate processes. Like an ESB the HSB is a nodal point in an enterprise organization and, […]
Worth watching again, from time to time, and asking yourself “what did I do recently to make the world better?” http://www.miniature-earth.com/
Sponsored by the Office of the Chinese Language Council International and the Michigan State University, Zon is a browser based “multiplayer, online learning environment designed to teach Chinese language and culture through gameplay”. I personally don’t like very much this kind of educational games, I always find difficult to engage and loose interest after a […]
It looks like there has been a lot of excitement in the micro-blogosphere recently since Robert Scoble relayed instructions the Chinese government sent to the Chinese web-sites requiring them to shutdown all entertainment channels during the 3 days national mourning in memoriam the victims of the recent earthquake. A lot of people commented, criticizing the […]
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some […]
Going-Solo, the one-day conference organized by Stephanie Booth yesterday in Lausanne, is now over. The conference has been filmed by Sébastien Baudet and videos are being uploaded to Dailymotion. I must say that for a first shot it was a great one, interesting speakers, subjects that matter and a lot of useful information to grasp. […]
Google just released a preview of their new Google Friend Connect service. Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with your site. This is not a social network by itself, this is something […]