This section of the website contains a series of musings across a range of topics from business to humour, some of which originate back to September 29th 2010:
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Time to invest in new tech stocks or time to buy lottery scratch cards?
A colleague pointed out this excellent article in the Financial Times recently by Richard Waters on the subject of the internet bubble. There are lots of very good examples in the article of how tech companies are valuing themselves in order to look attractive to potential buyers. However the key word in that sentence is
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Cloud Computing World Forum 2011 – Insights Part 1
In between meetings on a business trip to London this week I thought I’d drop by the 3rd Cloud Computing World Forum at Olympia to see what was going on. I attended the same event last year and it would be a good opportunity to see what had changed and also to catch up with
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Why the public sector should get better pensions than the private sector?
Okay so I misled you with the title, they absolutely shouldn’t… especially when the private sector is footing the bill in the first place… I wrote this post a few weeks back on the escalating costs of the NHS and in light of the recent threat of industrial action of teachers and public sector workers I
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Reinventing the wheel with Gamification
Gamification is often described as the new trend in IT circles; basically it is using software to turn non-exciting business tasks into an enjoyable game. Of course this isn’t new as we’ve used this technique for years in the sales area with league tables and prizes for the best performers etc. However, what it is
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Why the UK public sector will eventually implode…
Intrigued the vote of no confidence at today’s Royal College of Nursing conference and some insight I gained last week as to the cost of the NHS, I thought I would try and find out how much it costs the UK taxpayer to run the public sector, the NHS, and why the government must execute
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The Enterprise Cloud and why saving money isn’t everything
I spent an excellent couple of days this week with a group of CIO’s from some of the largest companies across Europe and one of the hot topics we debated was around adoption of the Cloud… what’s the business case for cloud? who’s driving the cloud agenda? are businesses ready for cloud? which applications are
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It’s easier for others the see flaws that you don’t see yourself
So here’s the story, my son Andrew and I had a trip to the driving range on Sunday. We’re hitting a few balls and I’m getting more and more frustrated that I’m hitting it badly and despite tweaking the swing it makes no difference. Just then Andrew appears from the other booth and says Dad
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Internet Explorer 9 – what’s the big deal?
Internet Explorer 9 is Microsoft’s latest weapon in the browser wars, so what’s the difference with its predecessor? Well when you load it you’ll notice straightaway that Microsoft have installed it with a minimalistic look. Microsoft have latched onto the less is more and lets keep it simple for the novice or first time user.
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Predicting the future with Super SaaS, Gamification and a Crystal Ball
Predicting the future of technology and business software development has never been more difficult, do I play safe and follow where others have gone before (and enter the world of ever increasing patent infringement!), or do I try something different with possibly higher risk? I’ve been a follower of SaaS and Cloud since the very
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Making Agile work outside of Product Development – it’s still about the people
A few weeks back I wrote this post on How to make Agile work for Product Development. As a build on that post I’d like to share how I’ve used Agile to successfully deliver ‘Business’ challenges outside of Product Development. Consider this scenario, there is a problem in the business and despite many efforts to
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Exceeding expectations, The Amazon Kindle – I like it…
I’ve been an iPad supporter for some time now and just this week acquired a Kindle for the first time. Taking it out of the packaging I was surprised to find it was fully charged and ready to use. It’s fair to say I can’t remember ever getting an electronic device that has come ready
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The story of Monty Hall – and how to improve your chances in life
How many people have heard of Monty Hall? Well until last week when my 10 year old daughter asked me to help with her homework, I’d never heard of him either. However what happened next really intrigued me… here’s a definition of the Monty Hall Problem from Wikipedia: The Monty Hall problem is a probability puzzle
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Agile, Ultra Agile, or Anarchy – An inside look at Facebook Development
Around the same time that I wrote my last post “How to make Agile work for product development… It’s all about the people” a colleague sent me a link to an interesting and insightful post by @yeeguy on “How Facebook Ships Code” I found this post fascinating and I’d recommend you take a few minutes
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How to make Agile work for product development… It’s all about the people
Some background before I get into the detail, I’ve been developing small, medium and large ‘shrink wrapped’ products for the past 12 years and before that I worked on large multi-million pound in house projects. Why do I give this background? Well it’s to set context in relation to this post from @Martijnlinssen where Martijn
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Does technology humour get any better than this?
Now this is what I call humour, for those like me old enough to remember, a modern day update of the “fork handles” sketch.. Brilliant!!!
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Technocrats put your soap box away and give the Cloud a chance
If you’ve read any of my recent posts you might think that I’m not supportive of Cloud. Some have even insinuated that I might even be a detractor, deliberately trying to slow down the adoption of Cloud. Well, it’s time for me to come clean and state for the record that I’m actually pro Cloud,
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Is this the future, is #Apple defining the future here??
Is this the future, is this type of web store the provisioning model of the future, is Apple defining the future here? Apple has already changed the music landscape with iTunes and the iPod, they have changed the mobile landscape with the iPhone and they have changed they have unshackled workers from the office with
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SaaS and Cloud… one in the same or completely different???
I was intrigued to see over on Accountingweb a whole list of replies to what on the surface was a very simple question … “What is cloud Computing?” the rationale behind this question was also simple: Once we agree the definition of cloud computing, then we can have a more productive discussion in 2011! However,
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You can only come to my cloud party if…..
I lost count of the number of times I heard or read that intro during 2010, You can only be Cloud if you’re a pure play SaaS application. You can only be Cloud if you run multitenant. You can only be Cloud if you run public cloud. You can only be Cloud if you’re application
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2010 blog review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers.
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This time it’s Apple TV… am I turning into an Apple fanatic??
Okay, so I’ve written a few posts on the iPad, iPod and the iPhone. I’ve ranted incessantly about the horrendous experience I had following the upgrade of my iPhone 3GS to iOS4, I still can’t believe how Apple got away with making so many peoples life a misery for so long. I’ve also written here about how
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At long last #Flash support for the #iPad
A few weeks back I wrote this post on how my Ipad would never replace my laptop. One of my main gripes was the lack of Flash support, I wrote: The lack of flash support is a massive drawback, 50% of the sites I try to visit use flash and I can’t use the iPad
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