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Capping IT Off
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Crunch IT – The Role of IT in a Recession
This was the title of an event that I helped organize for my British Computer Society (BCS) group last week in Central London, and which, as perhaps might be expected given the current economic climate, generated a fair amount of interest and suggestions from the excellent speakers and a highly vocal audience (see event flyer). However, it also left me wondering if there really was much that IT could do, on its own, to bring about any sort of lasting change to the current economic situation; especially in light of the fact that IT was not directly responsible for the recession in the first place (Ok, IT may have played a role in the dot com bubble / crash, but the Financial Services industry is probably the main culprit this time around -not pointing any fingers).
Agile rigidity
One of the characteristics of most traditional – linear, waterfall – styled organizations is the extremely rigid execution of their software development projects . “Our handbook says we need to fill in this form, so that’s what we do guys.” People is these projects live by the blind assumption that whoever invented or wrote down their software development process knew what he or she was doing. So we’ll just fill in the form, even though …
Manual Test Tools – Can They Help?
A new generation of test tools is starting to emerge which allows testers to record their activities via the GUI on an application for the tool to create a manual test script which is readable to the user rather than being in code. This post looks at whether these tools can help us reduce our scripting effort on delivery projects.
Twitter just died a little
Twitter is very close to be no fun at all anymore. Why? Because Twitter is going to be mainstream, because everybody joins Twitter and because Twitter is now something you can talk about with people at a bus stop and they know what you are talking about. It is becoming mass media and a marketers playground.
Apple to blame for the weak dollar?
For those of you who have somehow missed out on global news for the last 8 months or so this might come as a slight shock: the world economy has collapsed, and the value of the dollar is tumbling. Everyone has mainly been blaming the credit bubble (collateral debt refinancing) for this, but I say that the whole economic crisis is mainly caused by greed and consuming more iPhones than we can afford. There, I …
Distributed microblogging
Microblogging has almost become a commodity in most (social) networks and has become a lot easier since almost each microblogging service has their own (open) API. The fact that you no longer need the interface defined by the network to microblog but you can use another third party tool (for example TweetDeck or Twhirl) of your choice to do it is an immense step forward compared to social networks four years ago. The downside of all these tools and APIs is that they can be misused for distributed microblogging.
‘IE8 is already obsolete’
Microsoft has a hard time to keep up with the other players (Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari) in the market, especially since Microsoft stopped (or did very little) working on the browsing for some time after IE5.5 / IE6.0. Can Microsoft still compete with the other players? Is IE8 already obsolete, although it has new features as accelerators, web slices and visual search. Is Tristan Nitot right when he says “old slow Microsoft”?
iPhone OS 3.0 Unveiled…
…despite the recession, and along with the usual fanfare of a demo / presentation that set alight the whole infosphere, (i.e. blogosphere / twittersphere / and-all-other-web2.0-spheres), with anticipation of the planned summer launch. However, the thing that sticks out the most for me is the fact that I will soon be able to “Cut, Copy and Paste” stuff on my iPhone, (and really this should have been a standard feature from the start), so what’s with all the hoopla?
Firefox as a netbook OS
I just read an interesting article on some design thoughts on why getting rid of the tabs in Firefox 3.2. You can read it here but the most interesting part of the article that triggered me to write this post is: “A full screen modus, where the useless top menu disappears and the browser becomes what it is: A new OS layer.” So let’s hold on to that thought, add this one: “some laptops can …
Featured job role: Enterprise Architect and Strategist
My favorite quote I ever heard at Capgemini is “this company needs more Lee’s”. Tadaaaam, and here I present you another one :-). I met Lee some time ago through Tim Kelly (Capgemini’s virtual worlds guru) and we started to talk on Twitter and Chatterous about.. hmm mostly not really IT related things I think, but last year I invited Lee for an innovation workshop with IBM in their Java development labs in Hursley UK …
Winner IT industry blogger of the Year
