Very good gargon translation from Unsuck It
However, I thought that…
Bandwidth
Unsucked:
Time or people.
…was capacity.
Am I right?
Category Archives: IT
Conway’s Game of Life in HTML 5
As a Computer Science student I spent many an hour playing with the game of life.
However, the one thing that I wanted to do was change the rules so that there were less stable states (ie – there would be more movement) and yet this games would last a long time. Never did find the right solution to that one.
WordPress Automatic Update with 1and1
If you upgrade WordPress to version 3.0 on 1and1…
This is a life saver…
WordPress Automatic Update with 1and1 | Big Webmaster
If you’re not using 1and1, don’t start!!!
BlogPodium link…
I rarely talk about Accenture on this blog but I liked this video.
What does Accenture do? « Accenture BlogPodium
Plus, Jort needs the traffic! (joke)
Le Web buzz starts…
It’s becoming somewhat of ritual. Each autumn the weather get colder and the updates about Le Web start. I have my ticket already and it makes for something to look forward to!!!
“Looking forward to kicking ass at #LeWeb in December #Paris cc: @loic http://bit.ly/1gJCAy“
Entourage becomes Outlook on the Mac…
This is an interesting comment…
“they’re pre-announcing this so far in advance to discourage current Entourage users from switching to the new Exchange-compatible versions of Apple Mail and iCal in Snow Leopard.”
If this is the plan then they’re on the route to failure. Moving desktop mail client has a minimal cost. You just plug in the new client and start syncronizing the mail server. It’s a two minute job.
What seems to be happening here is that Outlook is becoming a server only tool. The poor desktop client (is there anything slower?) is killing the fanchise.
Design by evolution…
WebAIM: Blog – History of the browser user-agent string
Nobody said it was pretty.
Ed Brill takes one job posting and changes reality…
Ed Brill works at the IBM Software Group and has repeatedly made claims that Accenture didn’t migrate off Notes as publicly claimed by Accenture and Microsoft.
“I have a slide in the presentation that is based on my “Then and now, episode 2″ blog entry from February. The slide shows the same two graphics that are in the blog entry — Accenture/Avanade’s claim around when they migrated off Notes, and the reality of Accenture hiring Notes developers (and using hundreds of Notes applications) today.”
And…
“It’s clear that Notes is not only not gone from the Accenture IT environment, but rather that it is still a key technology.”
It would be nice if someone from Accenture put his straight officially but nobody seems bothered. Therefore, I’ll do it unofficially…
Notes isn’t a key technology at Accenture, hasn’t been for a while. As far as I know, it exists as client software mainly so people can read their old data but Accenture is very clearly a Outlook/SharePoint shop.
So why are they hiring Notes developers? To help clients. Accenture doesn’t have a supply chain to manage but you’ll see a lot of adverts for supply chain expert jobs.
Joho and market bullying…
I’ve given up counting the number of times this has happened to me…
Joho the Blog » Market bullying
Seriously, it’s madness. I once clicked on a link on my Mac to buy office; I only wanted to know how much it would cost. I was whisked away to the Microsoft web site where they tried to install something and then tried to refer me to a partner site. I never did find out the price!
The future of Amazon…
Nicolas Carr makes a series of good points…
“Amazon isn’t about to close down its physical warehouses, of course. But its digital warehouses could eventually become the center of its business. That may be good news from a financial perspective. Amazon has invested a great deal of money and ingenuity into fine-tuning its physical logistics operation, and that operation has given it an edge in online retailing, but the cost of storing, handling, and shipping physical goods has always been a drag on its profitability. That cost largely disappears when customers buy products as bits rather than atoms.”
How about another plan? Amazon could spin off the logistics business. Remember, they have non-Amazon clients on their books. Once they reach a critical mass they could spin off the physical business and concentrate on the bits and bytes.
This also raises the possibility that the logistics business could be worth far more to FedEx, UPS and the others than as a seperate company.