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Monthly Archives: May 2008
Going live with prototypes
I was having this discussion in the office the other day. It was about whether a prototype of a web application (for simplicity, I use this as a synonym for web site) could be seen as a first version of that application. More often than not, a prototype is used as the base line (i.e., using the prototype’s source code) for the actual development of the application. On Wikipedia, a software prototype is defined as …
Internal blogs matter
Like many other companies these days, Capgemini has an internal blogging community. I used to write frequent posts on my own internal blog, but I have been passive for over 6 months. The reason is that I do most of my blogging out in the open these days, which is already taking up much of my time. I must also admit that I had another reason, besides being too busy blogging elsewhere, for pushing aside …
The invisible hand, the sequel
My previous post on The invisible hand created several interesting discussions (thanks Andy, Peter, John, Alex and Mark) and I would like to share some of it with the rest of you. Peter (Evans-Greenwood, CTO Capgemini Australia) brought up the interesting theory of swarm intelligence and I’ll quote Wikipedia to bring you quickly up to date: “Swarm intelligence (SI) is artificial intelligence based on the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems. … SI systems are …
The invisible hand
Only a few people know that I actually love economics, more specifically macro-economics. I love the theories from economists like Pareto, Keynes, Friedman, Ricardo and of course Adam Smith. The latter one’s theory of the so-called “Invisible hand” is one of my favorites since I am quite liberal. Not as extreme as a good friend of mine who has very interesting ideas about a society where the government has almost no involvement at all, I …
Security Access Permisisons Considered Harmful
Look at the way we set up access permissions today on, say, a windows file. We go into a form and state the exact users and files that will have permission for the file. If we want to set the same permissions on a different file, we have to go through the whole process again, manually. At home, I have an XP PC, a Vista laptop, a Mac laptop and a network storage drive. My …
Winner IT industry blogger of the Year
