Agile, as tied to the Agile Manifesto, is 10 years old. Everyone and their brother wants to apply agile to their area of work now. But what does it really mean to become more agile in project management? Continue reading
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Command history and line editing in Oracle queries
SQLplus is awful. No, really. Awful. If you have never been out of your box and used a modern shell, ok, perhaps your bar is low. For the rest of the animal kingdom, it is painful. A couple of solutions follow… Continue reading
Run down on current cloud based IAM standards
There has been some activity on cloud based IAM lately, most recently with the release of the new Intel Cloud based IAM solution. It looks pretty expensive for high volumes, but it might make sense for something that has total cost recovery or for small, elastic groups of transitory users. In HE, I am thinking about alumni or prospective students specifically. But in addition to writing about this, I wanted to make an updated rundown on the standards, since there is now movement on SCIM. Continue reading
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Bb acquires two large Moodle consultancy firms and former head of Sakai
Well, I would admit to anyone that I didn’t see this one coming. Ray Henderson has just written that Bb has purchased Moodlerooms and and NetSpot. And they have hired Chuck Severance to be an official liason to the Sakai community. Continue reading
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Tagged bb, Blackboard, community source, LMS, moodle, opensource, sakai
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TDD in shell scripts
So what is the state of the religious war in trying to make having a bash more robust with modern patterns? I have written some amazing throw-aways myself over the years, but the TDD approach would tell you that this is now almost always a waste of time, that you will want to do it the right way and reuse what you have invested in, or be able to when you have to against plan. Continue reading
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Tagged admin, bash, continuous integration, python, ruby, shell, TDD, unit testing
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Innovation Diffusion Models
I have been thinking about technology adoption and penetration a great deal lately. Technology emergence and adoption happens all the time in the general population, but I came across a model new to me that captures features that I feel are lacking in the other models with which I was already familiar. Continue reading
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Tagged economics, globalization, innovation, lean, statistics. model, technology
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A Chinese bubble?
The growth of China has been phenomenal and now has China as the world’s second largest economy and a holder of much of the U.S. debt. But some recent signs of a serious slowdown in economic activity as the consumption in the West slows down and finally impacts manufacturing may spell some bad news ahead. Continue reading
Continuous Integration to improve Agile Process
We all know that we want more continuous integration, and that flexibility needs to be increased in the environment. But how does one do it and what is the median in the wider setting? Continue reading
Udacity continues Massive online course
I wrote earlier about Norvig and Thrun’s experiement with massive online courses and how it would impact on the university model this century. I am now following another link in the experiment, Udacity. Continue reading
Organizational Change Models
Nilofer Merchant writes a series on how business models have not sufficiently changed in response to social-era changes. Continue reading