This blog is intended to provoke discussion and exchange between like minded software application developers, engineers, architects, project managers - and keen hobbyists too.
Oracle used Old Billingsgate fish market to brief the press, analyst and customer community on its forthcoming Business Intelligence 11g offering this morning. There wasn't much of a smell of fish left in the auditorium thankfully.
I'm with Oracle this week for some developer related news, which I hope to report on later today. This is in fact my first exposure to Oracle in recent times.
Business transaction-related electronic information flow has spiraled to new heights. Companies operate on the aggregated results of millions of 'events' and the prevalence of web services has served to further swell the volumes of data that must be extrapolated, interpreted and processed at any one time.
With all this talk of electoral reform in the air, is it too tenuous a link to ask whether we need a fresh approach to multiple platform database aggregation? Could that "single view of disparately located data" become even harder to achieve as the cloud gains its inevitable virtual foothold?
This blog could quite easily have been called – Just How Much Of A Security Risk Does User Generated Content (UGC) Represent? It was late last night when I was checking mail that I was offered a link to "Find Out Who Blocked You On Facebook" by someone I trust implicitly.
Question: when is a hack not a hack? Answer: it depends.
Red Hat served up a smorgasbord worth of announcements this week to coincide with its developer summit in Boston, USA. As well as the positive effect on the company's bottom line that Red Hat's JBoss middleware appears to be having, there was plenty of deep dive news to nibble on too.
Given the widespread popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, technology analysts and commentators have for some time now been debating over their use in the commercial workplace. The argument rests on whether they provide a means to facilitate improved team engagement as a "collaborative" networking tool, or whether they are simply a distraction.
The recent rumblings from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano proved too much for the FlightRadar24 website which eventually ground to a halt. So did this teach web developers a thing or two?
Any news story that starts with the term 'Powerful project portfolio management (PPM) and professional services automation products' has way too many letter P's for starters and is likely to confuse the bejesus out of most of us – I would like to politely argue.But seemingly undeterred by this challenge, Compuware has chosen to use this precise term to describe its Changepoint 2010 team collaboration offering.
I suppose it was logical. Cloud computing came along and every sub-classification of the software application development food chain would, at some point, inevitably bring out a cloud-based or cloud-ready version of this that and the other.
So I missed IBM's Innovate developer conference last week, but this was through no fault of my own or any fault of IBM's. Instead you can blame BA strikes, Icelandic volcanoes and flight price hikes, all three of which conspired to keep me fully grounded.
Given the irresistible opportunity to use the 2010 World Cup as a platform to make some puerile jokes about technology vendors, I for one am unable to resist the temptation. Call it an Obligatory List Article (OLA) if you will, but with last night's inaugural concert and the first game just hours away (and with England's forthcoming "customary drubbing" of team USA on its way tomorrow), what could possibly be more fun?
A Tweet came flying past my window this morning claiming that over the next two years we will see more data being generated than was created in the last 20 years. The statement was attributed to Darren Thomas who is VP & GM of the Dell Enterprise Storage Group.
For those of us that ever so slightly gag and recoil from the cheesy way Microsoft describes Bing as a "decision engine", the term User Experience Platform is not likely to help us keep our lunch down too long either is it? So who is using it?