Technology Mashup

Ive just read this article ... and .... this point of view is totally out of date

The author of this article says that there are only three successful collaboration technologies that penetrate the boardroom Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange and the BlackBerry.

Thoughts from my first 5 minutes of using Google Chrome

Ok, so I've checked it out on my windows box and I must say its very impressive. My corporate system is very secure, and Chrome seems to have coped with the proxy very well. Here are my notes.

A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranets and Knowledge Management systems.

When you read some ITT response documents you can see the joins,
i.e. you can see the writing style change when you look at the deferent sections

Why is information integration such a 'high-wire' act?...

This is why,

This function can be used to randomise an existing javascript Array object.
It first creates a new array object and then iterates through each element of the old array,
randomly placing the old array elements into the new array.

function randomiseArray(arr){
 var ptr = 0;
 var newArr = new Array();
 
 while (ptr < arr.length){

The main goal of a consumer facing website is to create a fun, engaging online experience that helps your consumers interact with your product. This is a challenge for people who have come from the business world. The three questions that you need to ask yourself when considering how you make good consumer focused web site are

Good products have a simplicity of design that can be clearly seen. Often there is a single design innovation that carries the whole product.

When starting a project, the risk adverse, less skilled members of the team always add to the design, rather than to aim for design elegance. In fact "design elegance" are dirty words in some circles yet customers are expected many millions for products.

What do I recommend?

A deployment of JIRA confluence

What will it cost?

Arround £10k for unlimited users, both JIRA Confluence running on a 3 moderatly beefy boxs

I've just tried this out, with my jebra head set at home and a ubuntu laptop. It works just fine!
This is a really good example of a thought leader ship, video. Its entertaining, informative and inspiring

Which products does this pause on?

for (web=1; ; ) web++;

Those of us who have ever fixed a bug or released a patch will know the pain that is caused if you don't version your code.

It seems that the strange creatures who didn't spend all night playing Attic attack on their speccy have caught on to versions. But somehow they have made it more glamorous. Whilst trying showcase the achievements that Atos has made with web 2 products we are already talking about web 3. Whats it all about? Which version web means what?
In my nerdy engineers way I think about it like this