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Monthly Archives: May 2009

Google Wave is coming …

Saturday, May 30, 2009

I don’t normally just blog technologies, but this is so incredible you have to see it, if you haven’t already. If you want to see the future of both email and social networks, check out Google Wave. It’s described as:
… a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. A “wave” is [...]

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‘One throat to choke’

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Many developers will have heard this term used as a justification for buying all, or most, of an organization’s IT infrastructure from a single vendor. And it is, like most of these idiotic aphorisms bandied around IT management, a complete crock of excrement. It’s the sort of thing that salesmen must tell credulous IT management [...]

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In those OTHER multiverses, Oracle already bought it for $500mil

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Strange IM conversation came my way the other night, whilst discussing some code a team I led wrote at a previous workplace, I think it highlights some crucial factors Oracle bring to the Enterprise Java World:
anon 9:04PM
[about that code]
crazymcphee 9:05 PM
well, it WAS perfect … CRAZY perfect
anon 9:06 PM
lol… no doubt it even spans [...]

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JAOO Brisbane 2009 highlights and thoughts

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

I spent last Monday and Tuesday at the JAOO conference in Brisbane, and I have a couple of things which I want to say I thought interesting. (‘JAOO’ btw, because I see people asking about it on Twitter, is pronounced a bit like “yow” but with the “j” from German/Dutch like “jah”).
Firstly, I found the [...]

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JAOO Brisbane 2009

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

If you are going to JAOO Brisbane 2009 next week (May 11 & 12) don’t forget to come up and say hi. I’ll be the crazy one. But seriously, there are $250 tickets floating around, for the full two days. Get yourself one if you haven’t already

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The realities of ‘ROI’ for developers

Friday, May 1, 2009

Once, the CEO told the software team I was in working on in regards to a proposed feature … “Basically the feature’s ROI has to beat the cash rate. If I can get a better return by leaving this million dollars on deposit at the bank then I owe it to my shareholders to do [...]

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