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  • iPhone: What We Know, What We Don’t Know

    From iPhoneDevCamp, comes this presentation by Christopher Allen (slides available). Christopher covers the various aspects of using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, different media formats, and then the human interaction methods to keep in mind when developing for the iPhone. Also, check out the community site iPhoneWebDev.

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  • Selling to Banks and Bank Fraud

    Cote talks with Zane Rockenbaugh of Liquid Labs about selling software in the banking market. As Zane comments, the banks are quite conservative in their technology purchasing as their business model assures steady income and, thus, they avoid change. The need for change comes, however, largely from external demands such as regulations or new banks using technology (like online banking in the 90′s) to compete with existing banks. After discussing the market for banking software, Zane tells us several methods [...]

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  • Custom software development, shared IP, and running a small software company with Liquid Labs

    Coté talks with Zane Rockenbaugh of Liquid Labs about the company’s business model for working with clients — namely, sharing the IP of the resulting the code. Additionally, Coté and Zane talk about growing a small software shop from one person to a team, and the challenges in making that jump.

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  • SaaS and IT Management, with eVapt’s Divakar Jandhyala

    Coté speaks with Divakar Jandhyala of eVapt about what IT management for Software as a Service (SaaS) looks like and needs. Conversation also turns to the effects of SaaS on the IT department, and what the IT department of the future may look like. Finally, they end up talking about the effect of wider use of SaaS on open source thinking: for example, what open services would look like and the freedoms they would enable.

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  • All acout barcampESM – the barcamp for the IT management community

    Coté talks with whurley, John Willis, and Mark Hinkle about the recently announced barcampESM. Barcamps are awesome ways to get together and “conference” with people, so it’s exciting that the IT management community will finally have the chance to participate in this way. The three explain the idea and their hopes for barcampESM: namely to kick-start wider, cross-silo community action in the IT management world.

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  • Commercial open source, with whurley@BMC

    Coté talks again with William “whurley” Hurley about his thoughts on commercial open source. They discuss permissive licensing, choosing a license based on the desires for software and marketing thereof, avoiding using software licenses for political agendas (e.g., patents), and open source as a fad.

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  • Enterprise Agile with Chip Holden

    Michael Cote talks with Chip Holden about applying and using Agile Software Development in large scale projects. Chip tells us about his experience applying it over the years and across three different teams. His comments at the beginning about Agile software accentuating Conway’s Law are an interesting, counterintuitive observation. The discussion then concludes with the role of a software architect in Agile development.

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  • Open Source at BMC Software with whurley

    Michael Cote talks with Willian “whurley” Hurley about the recently kicked off open sources programs at BMC Software. They discuss the selection of the BSD license, the role open source plays in IT management, and the ways whurley has gone about starting up the BMC open source community. Disclaimer: BMC is a client.

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  • Green Computing – Yanks, Euros, Data Centers, Desktops, Services, and Sun

    James Governor talks with Sun’s Richard Barrington about green computing. They lay the ground work for what green computing is, discuss WEEE, the division between “the Yanks” and “the Euros” when it comes to developing green computing, go over Sun’s activities in green computing, and them end up at the River Thames. Disclaimer: Sun is a client.

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  • The Blogger’s Corner at Sapphire Vienna 07

    In these highlights from the blogger’s corner at SAP Sapphire Vienna ’07, James Governor first talks with SAP’s Nils Herzberg about “seeker/solvers” in communities and discuss other Enterprise 2.0-ish concerns. See Jame’s reports from Walldorf last year for more. James then get a unique “demo” from Social Media Group‘s Maggie Fox. Disclaimer: SAP is a client.

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