Geek And Poke

One Year In A IT Project - Day 18

The Consultants Handbook - Chapter 12

My Guess Of The Week - Part 3

Cool new features in the next version of Windows (see TechCrunch) which Bill Gates has announced for next year (see an older post from Mary-Jo Foley).

The Monthly Non-Tech Post

The Consultants Handbook - Chapter 11

See Joe McKendrick about the SOA and Mashups.

One Year In A IT Project - Day 17

See Michael Krigsman about 5 ways tp prevent IT failure.

The 5th way:

"Scope creep. Lack of preparation typically begets the kitchen-sink syndrome, where project leaders add in every kind of feature and the kitchen sink to boot."

Maybe sometimes you want some scope creep:

Working in a IT project is exciting.
But who likes roll-outs? Annoying customer calls and the boring maintenance phase starts.
Why don't postpone this to the infinity?

The Quick Start Guide For The NCC-1701-D, Chapter 4

Lucky Moments

Michael Arrington said a couple of day ago: "Twitter: Something Is Technically Wrong" and Jason Calacanis reiterates: "take my money for less down time"

The Age Of Microblogging

How To Choose A Web Development Framework

See Larry Dignan about Rails and Twitters scaling problems.