By Daniel J. Pritchett on April 10, 2013
This blog is effectively over now. If you want to keep in touch, check out the newer stuff at blog.pritchett.net. Thanks!
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By Daniel J. Pritchett on July 25, 2011
This weekend at Midsouth Tech Corner I decided to see if I could write a program to send myself an SMS using Twilio. I tried Coffeescript/Node.js for a bit but got bogged down in my own lack of knowledge about sending an https POST with specific parameters. The node libraries for Twilio aren’t fully baked [read more...]
Posted in Sharing at Work | Tagged Ben Hamilton, Midsouth Tech Corner, programming, python, SMS, Twilio
By Daniel J. Pritchett on January 12, 2011
Short but excellent, Chet Richards’ Certain to Win brings the underlying principles of 4th generation warfare to contemporary business and management. It’s a lot of Sun Tzu and Musashi mixed with von Clausewitz, Rommel, Patton, and Boyd. The bottom line is that organizations work best when they have clear visions, well-practiced skills, implicit trust amongst [read more...]
Posted in Sharing at Work | Tagged Carl von Clausewitz, Chet Richards, Chinese, e2.0, John Boyd, maneuver warfare, Patton, Sun Tzu, Toyota, World Literature
By Daniel J. Pritchett on July 30, 2010
Ada and Scala developers appear to be seven times more likely than C# developers to be interested in Clojure. While the small sample size and overall selection bias makes the Clojure survey not entirely authoritative, I found the process of compiling the ratio to be interesting. Sources: Survey of 487 Clojurians TIOBE programming index for [read more...]
Posted in Sharing at Work | Tagged books, Clojure, Compiler, FAQs Help and Tutorials, Java Virtual Machine, Languages, programming, Scala
By Daniel J. Pritchett on April 22, 2010
Congratulations are in order to the Austin-based Dachis Group thanks to their just-announced acquisition of The 2.0 Adoption Council. The Council has been invaluable to me since Susan (@ITSInsider) founded it last summer. Dachis has hired many of the top independent voices in enterprise collaboration since its founding in 2008; the Council deal is the [read more...]
Posted in Sharing at Work | Tagged 2.0 Adoption Council, Austin Texas, business, Dachis Group, enterprise collaboration, Organization, Susan Scrupski
