Sharing at Work
Do your employee incentives encourage productive behavior?
Reward programs gone horribly wrong
I think we’ve all seen examples of reward systems leading to counterproductive behavior. My favorite example is working for a fast food joint when I was in college and having a “seventy second drive-through time” contest. Our goal was to keep the average time between customers leaving the drive-through menu (presumably [read more...]
Salesforce announces the latest “internal Facebook”. Is this Facebook cofounder’s enterprise spinoff still coming?
Today’s announcment of Salesforce “Chatter” as a SaaSy enterprise Facebook product adds another option to the red-hot market for enterprise social platforms modeled on Facebook. Regular readers will remember that I called out ”Internal Facebooks” as the #1 collaboration trend for 2009 in a post last month.
We’re still waiting to hear from Asana, the business collaboration [read more...]
Presenting at tomorrow’s BarCamp Memphis!
The second annual BarCamp Memphis is finally here!
Tomorrow I’ll be heading to the MASE building to listen in to soome good presentations, panels, and wide-open discussions (“core conversations”) about technology development, new media, and entrepreneurship.
My two scheduled sessions are:
“Social Tools in the Enterprise” with Ryan Hinricher. Ryan and I are going to get into the [read more...]
Formatting as code: Haml versus embedded Ruby
Digging deeper into Rails programming styles
The last Sharing at Work post showed how to set up a Rails development environment using a Ubuntu Linux virtual machine. This week, I’m in the midst of developing my first ground-up public-facing web application using Ruby on Rails.
Learning a new way to dynamically generate HTML
My Rails development has already been [read more...]
Get started building web apps with your own Ruby on Rails virtual development server
Today we’re going to take a detour into web programming using Ruby on Rails. The hardest part for me has been getting the development environment up and running. Some guides will walk you through setting up Ruby and then Rails directly on your Windows machine, but I abandoned that pretty quickly. You’ll soon grow tired [read more...]
