Sharing at Work
Send yourself a text message with Twilio’s excellent Python library
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...]
Book Review – Certain to Win by Chet Richards
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...]
Likelihood a user of one of these languages will be interested in Clojure
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...]
2.0 Adoption Council Acquisition Strengthens Dachis Group Portfolio
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...]
How Microsoft and Jive Might Get Microblogging Wrong
Microsoft SharePoint and Jive SBS are the two biggest players I know of in the one-size-fits-all enterprise collaboration world. Thanks to the two year lag between consumer web product innovation and enterprise collaboration followup, we now see microblogs gaining recognition as a must-have feature for the biggest players in this market. This is great news but [read more...]
