1. Mar 22nd, 2007

    Rounded Corners - 115

    Quantity Assurance. Works On My Machine logo by Coding Horror, original concept by Joseph Cooney.

    Tables turned. Back in the 90’s we got Slashdot, and a never ending stream of articles whining about the sad state of the software industry: the best technology doesn’t always win! Proving that was easy. More people were using Windows than Linux, and more people were using MS Word than Emacs and LaTex.

    What a difference a decade makes. Guess who’s doing all the “it’s not fair” complaining nowadays?

    I think that cuts to the core what I was feeling. Over the past 5 years, Microsoft has done more talking about software than delivering said software.

    Can you fix my password? How to Stop the Dilbertization of IT:

    “Outsourcing is a symptom, not the problem. Outsourcing has become such an important factor because when you turn IT into a commodity, it becomes about where you can get it at the lowest cost. It’s what we’ve done to IT that is the problem, which is taking away its chance to influence business”.

    Today only! The USPTO is having a sale. Get your very own patent on linked lists!

    Dear non-technical CIO magazine reader. Bill de hÓra wants to remind you that “a binary compatible wire call is still a binary compatible wire call, no matter how much XML you put on it.” Not to mention that “information can be utterly, utterly application-specific and still 100% XML compliant.” (Sean McGrath via Bill)

    Posted by Assaf Filed in general

    1. Mar 23rd, 2007

      Matthew King

      My favorite line in the IT World article is: “Either you believe in the value proposition or you do not.”

      WWVPD?

    2. Mar 23rd, 2007

      Assaf

      Reminds me of a couple of articles I recently read about SOA (rounded corners 113 links to one of them). More and more, IT is becoming a faith based religion.

    3. Mar 24th, 2007

      Labnotes » Faith-based IT and Snake-Oil Architecture

      [...] King brought an interesting quote from an IT World article I linked to in Rounded Corners 115: “Either you believe in the value proposition or you do [...]

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