The Sky looks Misty and Cloudy
I expect very few people to recognize the opening line “The sky looks misty and cloudy” to Majek Fashek’s hit “Send Down the Rain” (it was a hit in Nigeria!) , but I must confess that every time I...
View ArticleRainmaking – Seeding the Clouds
… picking up on my premise that the value of the cloud lies in the services it provides I quickly progress to the discussion of what are the key considerations that the provider or consumer of such...
View ArticleElasticity
Elasticity – the property of a substance that enables it to change its length, volume, or shape in direct response to a force effecting such a change and to recover its original form upon the removal...
View ArticleWe are the World
Some weeks back I happened to have a rather interesting conversation with the folks out at Baynote on behavioral analysis and the wisdom of crowds (cue “we are the world”). This caused me to buy the...
View ArticleImpressions from JavaOne
Last week I attended Java One, which proved to be both an entertaining and enlightening experience … who knew I would be excited to see “Duke” in person (for the uninitiated Duke is the Java Mascot)....
View ArticleIts all about the Service!
On Tuesday 23rd as planned, I delivered, quite smoothly I might add, my Keynote at SOA World, titled “Convergence in the Cloud: How Cloud Computing and SOA Produce Real Change”, it was a fun filled...
View ArticleThe Penguin and I
Earlier in the year I decided to embark on “An Alternative OS” project and see if there was life without Windows. My motivation was in part curiousity, some irritation with Windows Vista and buzz I was...
View ArticlePaaS
Its been a rather hectic summer since I last posted, what with vacations, work, vacations, more work, its been a month or so of playing continuous catchup. While par for the course in August, clearly...
View ArticleManaging Innovation
Two weeks back, I was interviewed by some market researchers on the topic of managing innovation and bringing products to market. The discussion revolved around project selection, prediction of...
View ArticlePower of Abstraction
Every programmer is familiar with the command Print “Hello World” or some variation depending upon language used (this one being Python). When we step back to think about what that single line of code...
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