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| The Latest from Handwaving | MORE | | I Use This The Kindle can sync my current location in a book to every device, but I have to move papers and articles over manually. At usesthis.com they interview a bunch of people to ask about their current computer setup and their dream setup. Most of them are using aged machines, ultraportables (Mac Air is popular), and Emacs/VIM for editing (a few slickedit fans). Most of them have little to add in their dream setup (more battery life, better cloud sync). Are our tools finally good enough? Not for me. Current setup: A 4 year old Sony Z laptop, 8GB RAM, SSD. even use Visual Studio. Technology DevelopMentor Courses - Friday, October 26, 2012 Global Sexism The same article points to a report from the World Economic Forum on gender parity. The Wall Street Journal reports that after 128 years in business, The Bank of Japan has promoted its first female branch manager. This example points clearly to the self-destructive sexism that will doom Japan to decline. Japan has a severely low birthrate which will put immense pressure on their economy as their population ages and shrinks rapidly. They need more people, yet they refuse to allow immigration. m going to miss Japan when it finally disappears. It’s atrociously stupid. Handwaving - Thursday, July 15, 2010 Second Mover Advantage This article (and this one) pokes a hole in the idea that there’s a sustainable first-mover advantage for businesses. That is, being the first search engine or social networking service did not give those innovators any advantage in the market; in fact, most of those first generation companies are gone (Excite & SixDegrees). This strikes me as obvious, yet VCs insist that being first to market is critically important. Has Microsoft ever built the first of anything? Is the iPhone the first ever smartphone? Even Amazon came several years after Book Stacks Unlimited. Handwaving - Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | | The Best from Handwaving | MORE | | I Use This The Kindle can sync my current location in a book to every device, but I have to move papers and articles over manually. At usesthis.com they interview a bunch of people to ask about their current computer setup and their dream setup. Most of them are using aged machines, ultraportables (Mac Air is popular), and Emacs/VIM for editing (a few slickedit fans). Most of them have little to add in their dream setup (more battery life, better cloud sync). Are our tools finally good enough? Not for me. Current setup: A 4 year old Sony Z laptop, 8GB RAM, SSD. even use Visual Studio. Technology DevelopMentor Courses - Friday, October 26, 2012 Global Sexism The same article points to a report from the World Economic Forum on gender parity. The Wall Street Journal reports that after 128 years in business, The Bank of Japan has promoted its first female branch manager. This example points clearly to the self-destructive sexism that will doom Japan to decline. Japan has a severely low birthrate which will put immense pressure on their economy as their population ages and shrinks rapidly. They need more people, yet they refuse to allow immigration. m going to miss Japan when it finally disappears. It’s atrociously stupid. Handwaving - Thursday, July 15, 2010 Second Mover Advantage This article (and this one) pokes a hole in the idea that there’s a sustainable first-mover advantage for businesses. That is, being the first search engine or social networking service did not give those innovators any advantage in the market; in fact, most of those first generation companies are gone (Excite & SixDegrees). This strikes me as obvious, yet VCs insist that being first to market is critically important. Has Microsoft ever built the first of anything? Is the iPhone the first ever smartphone? Even Amazon came several years after Book Stacks Unlimited. Handwaving - Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | - NYTimes to erect paywall
This article does not mention an interesting nugget that was in the memo to the NYTimes staff: “There has also been much speculation in the media and elsewhere about whether The Times will join a consortium as part of the metered model implementation plan. The NYTimes has finally decided to move to a subscription model for their website, modeled on the Financial Times. At this stage, our plan is to introduce the metered model as a stand-alone product. As I suggested earlier , more sites should join a potential NYTimes consortium. Handwaving - Sunday, January 24, 2010 - Product ratings should be high
It reminded me of this article , which says the average rating for products and movies, at lots of different sites, is around 4.3 The article asserts that people are too nice or, for some inexplicable reason, currying favor (from whom? I recently signed up for a Netflix trial account and rated around 300 movies. noticed that I was giving out lots of 3 and 4 stars, a fair number of 5s, but very few 1s and 2s. out of 5. Here’s a post from Youtube showing that most ratings are 5s. Another from Yelp. why?). You are all idiots!) Same goes for books and products and restaurants. Handwaving - Monday, January 11, 2010 - All-you-can-read subscription for news
At the same time, they must transition their online content to news nuggets, not full-length articles. If they want, they can add micro-payments to give occasional readers the full article, but this is not a real source of revenue. Newspapers are dying. Walter Isaacson says newspapers must charge for content , but Michael Kinsley says it will not work. In particular, Isaacson likes micropayments, but almost everyone else hates the idea. This blog explains the problem with newspapers better than most. On the other hand, there are too many journalists and most of them suck. Handwaving - Thursday, February 12, 2009 %>
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| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | Optimistic concurrency in MongoDB using.NET and C# 'This article demonstrates a technique and supporting library for adding optimistic concurrency control to NoSQL databases and MongoDB in particular. At the end of this article is a simple C# class (data context) which has save and delete methods which internally are safe via optimistic concurrency control. Quickly, what is optimistic concurrency control? Ideally, all databases that allow concurrent access or disconnected access need to implement some form of concurrency control. This usually comes in two flavors: Pessimistic concurrency control. Optimistic concurrency control. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Monday, April 8, 2013 People or the system? An article in the MIT Sloan Management Review a few years back suggested that when “star players” move to a new team they don’t necessarily, or even normally, keep their “star player” performance. “the two view-points are always tenable. The one, how can you improve human nature until you have changed the system? The other, what is the use of changing the system before you have improved human nature?” George Orwell, “Charles Dickens” essay in Shooting and Elephant and Other Essays, Penguin Books I am sure I am not alone in exhibiting another of Orwellian trait: Double think. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Links! - 2 conferences, 1 week This presentation was based on an article I wrote for InfoQ last year My 10 things for making your Agile adoption successful. I’ve been to two conferences this week! The first was Agile Dev Practices in Potsdam, outside of Berlin. At I presented my Retrospective Dialogue Sheets (www.dialoguesheets.com) , well I say presented, it was 10 minutes of introduction, 60 minutes of attendees doing Dialogue Sheets and 20 minutes wrap up. Anyone who has attended one of my Dialogue Sheet sessions will recognise the format. Which also means there aren’t a lot of slides for download. Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, March 8, 2013 | -
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This article is a follow up one I wrote last week entitled “The NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB – Oh My!”. In that article I introduced the NoSQL movement, MongoDB, and showed you how to program against it in.NET … Continue reading → NoSQL Articles Visual Studio Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Thursday, April 29, 2010 - Article: 10 Features in.NET 4.0 that made Me Smile
I recently wrote another article for DevelopMentor 's Developments newsletter (not subscribed yet? Speaking of that XAML stuff, if you write WPF or Silverlight code and don’t know MVVM, stop reading this article and tp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419663.aspx" target="_blank">learn about it here. Also have a look at my article from last month Six Things That’ll Surprise You About.NET 4.0. Tags: Articles DevelopMentor see top-right of this page ). This one is entitled. 10 Features in.NET 4.0 that made Me Smile. Cheers, Michael. 10 Features in.NET 4.0 Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - Building Windows Machines in Amazon EC2
In this article I'm going to give you a simple, step-by-step overview of how to create a Windows 2008 server image in Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) infrastructure. Tags: Articles Tools Now I must admit I'd rather have found a good tutorial on The Internets or even in a book. Feel free to send me any I missed. My experience is they are either dated or about Linux and so on. First, briefly why does one care about EC2? That's a great reason and Microsoft and Google have interesting plays there too. Personally I just want a simpler way to create virtual machines. Here we go. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - MongoDB vs. SQL Server 2008 Performance Showdown
This article is a follow up one I wrote last week entitled “The NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB - Oh My!”. In that article I introduced the NoSQL movement, MongoDB, and showed you how to program against it in.NET using LINQ and NoRM. For ease-of-use, you’ll have to want to read the original article. This article is about the performance argument for MongoDB over SQL Server (or MySql or Oracle). In the first article, I threw out a potentially controversial graph showing MongoDB performing 100 *times* better than SQL Server for inserts. Those were. Your Turn. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Thursday, April 29, 2010 - Article: Azure Storage
I recently wrote an article for DevelopMentor's Developments newsletter entitled Azure Storage. Listen to this article as a podcast: Azure-Storage-Article-Kennedy.mp3 ]. In this article, we will cover just the basics of the three storage services of Windows Azure. Read it at the DevelopMentor website here: [link]. I've republished here for my readers. Enjoy! Developments: Azure Storage. by Michael Kennedy. October 27th 2008, Los Angeles CA - It's 9 AM and Microsoft is hosting PDC (their most forward looking developer conference). Enter Azure Storage. Listing 3. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Wednesday, April 8, 2009 %>
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