Love is in the App.
Still searching for that perfect Valentines day gift for your beloved? One enterprising young man has developed an App in order to win his ex-girlfriend back. I’ve been wondering how long before we’ll start seeing extremely personalised apps, targeted to very small number of users. It appears that this may a big step in that direction. And I guess […]
10 Great Ideas Someone Should Invent
Some innovative and unusual ideas from TechCrunch. I especially like the idea of turning Klout into real $ – the conversion of online activities into real currency is a curious concept and bound to feature more in the near future.
Blog back up and running
I’ve had a few technical issues with this blog over the last week. the blog is back up and running and I hope to get all the old content back within the next week or so.
Why the cloud means you have to stop making excuses for lousy software
Why the cloud means you have to stop making excuses for lousy software. A very important topic covered in immense depth by one of the worlds leading cloud experts. Did I mention that this was my first blog post for IBM’s ThoughtsOnCloud. 🙂
So, what does freedom mean to us?
Freedom is a BIG topic and it’s not until you listen to someone who has spent a considerable amount of time exploring the subject, that you begin to realise the complexities, the nuances, and most importantly, the importance of freedom as it relates to law, politics and society as a whole. Last week I attended a […]
72,000 Dreamforce attendees shows that Salesforce has got real mojo.
Forbes reported that Dreamforce (Salesforce.com‘s annual love-in) has 72,000 attendees. eWeek says there are 90,000. My mind boggles at these numbers. This is the equivalent of a packed-out Sydney Olympic stadium. The largest IT event I’ve attended was IBM’s LotusSphere in Orlando, which had around 10,000 attendees, and I thought that was a big event. If […]
DFQ’s – the learning method for the Facebook generation
How do you educate people in an increasingly time-poor world and one where attention spans seem to be reducing quite dramatically? DFQ is a learning strategy invented by the School Of Thinking and as usual they seem to have been ahead of the pack in developing this technique. The School Of Thinking is an educational organisation […]
Hello, this is Microsoft Technical Support…
Just had a “This is Microsoft Technical support…” call. Long story short, when I said “I know this is a scam”, she said “Don’t use that sort of language with me” and hung up. I feel sorry for the old and technically illiterate who might get caught up in these scams. I wonder what these […]
14 quinquavigintillion years to break my password.
How secure and robust are your passwords? Or more importantly, how long would it take a hacker to break your password? How Secure is My Password claims to calculate how long it would take a hacker, using a desktop PC, to crack your password. I tried a password of “A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Minister […]
Free Book: The Past, Present, and Future of JavaScript
Anyone doing web development these days knows the importance of JavaScript. Those that know me, also know that JavaScript is one of my least-liked languages, and my opinion is well summed-up by my favourite Javascript quote: Develop by Netscape over a weekend. And it shows! Nevertheless Javascript marches on and is now also becoming used […]