The year was 2005 & I had had some excellent results predicting future news stories, trends, etc… & monetizing them. Of course being a programmer I did this programmatically. Microsoft, Google, & Yahoo were all paying me. Paying me to pollute the internet. It would be many years before they’d assert more control & frankly […]
Cutting Edge vs. Bleeding Edge
The 21st Century has brought with it some amazing tools for programmers. However as many developers have gathered decades of experience a divide is forming between generations that can be challenging to navigate. Once a technologist, plumber, carpenter, or mechanic has their preferred “tool-set” it can become difficult for them to introduce new tools because […]
Three hour tour
Hi gurus, if you haven’t read The Phoenix Project yet I hope this tips you over the top. This book makes a tremendous contribution to the Agile/Lean/DevOps movements & articulates most of the challenges we’ve experienced in the world of technology. You may have to Google “Gilligan’s Island” to understand the context of this, but […]
Develop “The Cloud” 2019
Wow, just wow has development been changing rapidly. More & more we’re being asked to develop “on the cloud.” It’s incredibly ironic, just a few years back developers were being gobbled up by off-the-shelf companies to produce one-size-fits-all packages to be marketed via too-often unscrupulous sales-folks, that have no qualms about over-promising and under delivering. […]
2015, Marty McFly, and Programming.
Lots of internet posts, memes, and even videos have appeared to lament the missed predictions for 2015 from Back to the Future. However, one thing is for certain, we’ve seen a lot of other predictions come true. We may not have a hover-board that will allow us to cruise across ponds, but we’ve got some […]
OSX Lion Preview Review
Here’s a quick summary of about 30 minutes with OSX Lion (© Apple): 1. Little “lights” under icons in dock were by default turned off in Lion (© Apple). 2. Smaller control buttons on the windows. 3. There is a new link in the dock called “launchpad” that makes your desktop look just like an iPhone/iPad […]
Firefox 4 vs. Internet Explorer 9 vs. Ch...
I hope you will welcome my contributions to the V-Tek blog, this is my first post. As a project manager here at VeraciTek I am always trying to polish my fluency with the latest technologies. The browser war being one of the most relevant to my job. Microsoft recognized very early that building the browser […]
More FUD from internet “reporters”.
Example #1: Is Honeycomb Android’s Vista? Wow, ZDnet, how much did you get paid to run that article? Especially since the supported devices can be counted on 1 hand and the major player is the Xoom that really has had it’s own problems taking on the iPad. Any commentary on the matter is premature at best, […]
Internet Explorer 10
There is a bit of a buzz going about upcoming IE 10’s claim to “native support” for HTML5. This is quite oxymoronic. The whole point of browser containment of HTML is that it is platform independent, in other words, NOT native. However, Microsoft continues to flaunt their ability to hook their browser directly into their OS […]
Microsoft’s Azure
PaaS (Platform as a Service). That’s the niche that Microsoft is targeting. Developers, popular languages, especially one of our old favorites here, the ultra-powerful PHP. Last year we got the opportunity to work with a Microsoft team on their PHP/IIS optimization engine. Unfortunately, we were much too busy and it was much too buggy. For […]