Expectations 2.0
Every so often one needs to take a reality check. In my case, it was a month in Australia with relatives and an insight into why the UK health system is a good idea and why Web 2.0... well, isn't...
Musings from David Norfolk, Practice Leader for Development & Governance.
Business Continuity as a Systems Development issue.
I was rather interested by a press release from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) today, about its 'A Decade of Living Dangerously' report (published by the CMI and Cabinet Office). It...
The BCS Configuration Management Specialist Group’s Cloud Workshop
As I mentioned here, Martin Banks is Bloor's resident Cloud guru, and he has strong opinions on the usage and abusage of the term Cloud Computing. Now, there's a chance to hear Martin explain in...
The Blue Cloud from IBM
Cloud computing, as Bloor's Cloud specialist, Martin Banks, keeps telling me, means may things to many people. In fact, the meaning attached to cloud can change radically during a conversation!...
Continuous Application Performance Management
I'm pretty keen on designing for user experience, user experience testing—and user experience monitoring in production. There's some background reading on WikiPedia, of course, and IBM has an...
Something new in Perforce SCM
Whatever else is true in development, the importance of version control can't be overestimated. You simply don't want the bugs you've fixed coming back simply because someone implements a new...
Compuware CU2008 – Day 2
Day 2 of the Worldwide Compuware Uniface User Conference (CU2008; the agenda is here) started off pretty good (maybe because I left the rock party last night early). We started off with an...
CU2008 Day 1
OK, I'm at Day 1 of the Worldwide Compuware Uniface User Conference (CU2008) and it's pretty good. I've always liked Uniface - its a productive way of building rich applications at an abstraction...
Rational RSDC, Jazz and Second Life
A chance to talk with Danny Sabbah (General Manager, Rational Software) at the London Rational Software Developers Conference (RSDC) is not to be missed—but more of that anon. First, I...
Report from Techwave – part 2
Reporting some real customer views of Sybase IQ and PowerDesigner, two of Sybase's current successs stories.