Date:Wednesday Sep 09, 2009

UK innovation ranking compared to the rest of the World - why do we get so little 'bang' for our 'buck'? • Back on my topic of concerns about the UK economy this article looks something which I find highly problematic, that is the UK's spending on research and development (R&D), against world wide spend, and then measured against world wide innovation 'league tables'. • ..... View Comments

Date:Wednesday Sep 02, 2009

September 2009 blog catch up • Apologies to all my blog readers I've been lax of late and haven't posted a great deal recently, and I'm afraid that in an attempt to clear down all the draft blog entries I have prior to the transition and acquisition (of Sun by Oracle, of course) I'll be posting a number of blog entries in quick. • ..... View Comments

Date:Monday Aug 17, 2009

links for 2009-08-17 • I'm a Photographer, not a Terrorist - Care about civil liberties in the UK? • ..... View Comments

Date:Friday Jul 31, 2009

The problem with automated provisioning (II of III)The problem with automated provisioning (II of III) The problem with automated provisioning (II of III) • The second of my articles on the macro-level issues with (automated) provisioning and focusing again on the theme of complexity as a result of "No. • ..... View Comments

Date:Thursday Jul 30, 2009

links for 2009-07-30 • Why Is Obama’s Top Antitrust Cop Gunning for Google? • ..... View Comments

Date:Tuesday Jul 28, 2009

links for 2009-07-28 • Gartner Highlights Five Attributes of Cloud Computing - The five attributes of cloud computing according to Gartner are (1) Service-Based, (2) Scalable and Elastic, (3) Shared, (4) Metered by Use, and (5) Uses Internet Technologies. • ..... View Comments

The problem with automated provisioning (I of III)

The problem with automated provisioning (I of III) • Referring back to my previous article " The problem with automated provisioning - an introduction " once you get over these too human of issues into the 'technical' problem of provisioning then I'd have been much nearer the mark in my initial assessment, because it is indeed an issue of complexity. • ..... View Comments 1 Trackback

Date:Sunday Jul 26, 2009

The problem with automated provisioning - an introduction • I was going to start this short series of articles with the statement that the problem with provisioning is one of complexity, and I'd have been wrong, the predominant issues with provisioning, and specifically automated provisioning, are awareness and expectation. • ..... View Comments 1 Trackback

Date:Thursday Jul 23, 2009

Disqus and Twitter integration to get even more improvements • You'd imagine Twitter integration in Disqus couldn't get any better, however speaking with Daniel Ha at Disqus I hear even more improvements are on the way. • ..... View Comments

Date:Wednesday Jul 22, 2009

Jakob Nielsen: "Mobile User Experience is Miserable" • Latest research into mobile web user experience says that overall the experience is "miserable", and cites the major issues with Mobile web usages, as well as looking at overall "success" rates which, although improved from results of research in the mid-1990's are much lower than typical PC and. • ..... View Comments

Bill Vass' top reasons to use Open Source software • You might not have seen Bill Vass' blog article series on the topic of the top reasons to use and adopt Open Source software; and as it's such an insightful series of articles I thought I'd bring it to your attention here. • ..... View Comments

Date:Tuesday Jul 21, 2009

The Reasons Projects and Programmes Fail • In this post I'll be describing the five categories that I've identified of reasons that Projects and Programmes Fail, this categorisation has been built up from doing a large number of system, project and programme reviews and audits over the years, and this article follows on from the project. • ..... View Comments

Date:Monday Jul 20, 2009

links for 2009-07-20 • Clearing up cloud computing - article from the chicagotribune.com - Andreas "Andy" Bechtolsheim gives an ultra short, sweet and to the point interview with the online Chicago Tribune. • ..... View Comments

Project Review and Programme Audit Framework - a simple example of it's use • This is a simple example review utilising the project review and programme audit framework that I wrote about in the proceeding article. • ..... View Comments

Date:Sunday Jul 19, 2009

Project Review and Programme Audit Framework • So this is the framework I have developed and use for reviewing and auditing failing projects, programmes and systems. • ..... View Comments 1 Trackback

Date:Saturday Jul 18, 2009

Reviewing, auditing and rescuing failing projects and programmes best practice • One of the things I've done rather too much of is be asked to review failing projects, programmes and build-outs for customers, clients and partners, and come up with solutions and recommendations to help resolve these problems, which is often followed in short order by being asked to help rescue. • ..... View Comments

Date:Thursday Jul 16, 2009

Innovation@Sun blog design and functionality update • Recently I helped update Hal Stern's Innovation@Sun blog on behalf of Hal and Marianne Salciccia, the blog administrator. • ..... View Comments

Hosting a BCS Enterprise Architecture event on EA Tools tomorrow in Manchester • Tomorrow evening I'm going to be hosting a BCS Enterprise Architecture (EA) speciality group (SG) event looking at EA tools in Manchester. • ..... View Comments

Web analytics used here at the eclectic blog • Thought you might be interested in the the web analytics used on this blog; in total there are five pieces of technology collecting data and then used for performing web analysis here. • ..... View Comments

Date:Monday Jun 22, 2009

Cloud Computing reading recommendations from Jim Baty • Here's a few Cloud Computing reading recommendations from Jim Baty, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect for Global Sales and Services. • ..... View Comments

Online

Flickr

www.flickr.com

Where

Search

This blog only

Popular

Language

Archive

Subscribe

 

Do the right thing

Join the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign
Join the Online Free Speech Campaign!

kthxbai

Visitors

Locations of visitors to this page
  • » Large Cluster Map
  • » Unique Visitors:

    • Today's Page Hits: 1374