2009/02/16

BARCELONA (AFN) - De telecomindustrie zet de komende tijd fors in op software voor mobieltjes. In navolging van de Amerikaanse computer- en elektronicafabrikant Apple gaan diverse bedrijven virtuele winkels openen waar gebruikers van een mobiele telefoon softwareprogrammaatjes kunnen kopen....

2009/01/14

Hiring smart software developers is not easy. If you're not careful you might end up hiring a bunch of moronic mandrills, like I did last year. And you don't want that. Trust me. Stand-up meetings are very hard to do in a tree. The key is to ask challenging questions that enable you to distinguish the smart software developers from the moronic mandrills. And to help you with that, I decided to publish my private list of 100 interview questions for software developers....

2008/10/13

A new report by Forrester Research states that the market for collaboration and productivity web apps in the enterprise (a.k.a. enterprise 2.0) is set for a shake-up, with prices to fall in some cases by over half. Price drops will be especially sharp in blog, wikis, social networking and widgets. The only exception is mashups, which will increase in price over the next 5 years....

2008/05/21

2010/09/04

The reality is that management by targets was always going to run into trouble. Wherever there are targets, there are a series of unintended consequences, many of which hit our headlines on a daily basis. From a systems thinking perspective, targets are actually tools and have long been in the frame for damaging improvement, preventing learning and sowing disorder. Here’s why....

2010/09/04

KeyWack is a game for people with babies and small children who like to sit at their parent’s computer and bang the keyboard. KeyWack prevents babies from accidentally opening most programs or documents, and makes banging even more fun by drawing shapes and playing random sounds as the keys are whacked. You can also click with the mouse to place a shape at a particular location....

2010/09/04

(Supposedly) an article from the 50's that describes how a good housewife should behave