Geek And Poke

SOA And SMB

Does SMB need SOA (see Joe McKendrick).

A Happy Day For Mr. B.

A Patch Tuesday knocked Skype out (see TechCrunch).

The Future Of Journalism?

See Tom Foremski about the value of journalism in the ages of meme tracker.

How To Know Your Project Is In Trouble - Part 1

codesqueeze blogs about 101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed (seen trough Michael Krigsman).

Just a suggestion for 3 more ways.

The Consultants Handbook - Part 9

Michael Krigsman blogs about Brian Sommers list of 10 reasons an implementation team destroy IT projects.

The Future Of Microsoft Office

 


Will Microsoft Office survive Google Docs, Zoho, OpenOffice etc. (see Dan Farber)?

Of course (see picture above).

(More Star Trek related cartoons can be found here and here)

How To Sell IT Projects - Part 1

Nicholas Carr asks whether those big ERP systems have a future.
Who knows. But until they'll go away someone has to sell them.

The Consultants Handbook - Part 8

Joe McKendrick asks How do we really know when SOA ‘fails’?

Whether SOA or no SOA. Do we really want to know it?

Strong UNO

Don't worry about the SQL injection attacks against the UNO (see Slashdot). They know what to do.

Boring New World

Linus Torvalds does appesement in the Microsoft vs. Linux war (see Slashdot).
The Linux Foundation calls for respect for Microsoft (see Slashdot again).
SCO seems to loose the lawsuit (see Dan Farber).

Hopefully we'll have something to blog about tomorrow.