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August 2010

10 Things to Know About NoSQLblogs.techrepublic.com.com
Aug 26, 2010
Quick Quiz for Your Database Usagehowfuckedismydatabase.com

The NoSQL one is especially great.

Aug 26, 2010
Big Data, Big Growth, Big M&Ablogs.wsj.com

The WSJ on the growing business behind big data.

Aug 25, 2010
Can DC’s Tech Scene Finally Create Its Own Identity? Yes, It Can!techcrunch.com

TechCrunch hyping up the DC technology scene. It’s good to see a little East Coast love on the site.

Aug 24, 2010
Some lesser-known truths about programmingdotmac.rationalmind.net

Let’s tease the truths from the hyperbole in this article:

True

  1. Bad programmers can cause extra work for other developers on the team.
  2. Programming is hard work that requires concerted mental activity and minimal interruptions.
  3. Software that is constantly changed without regards to an overall design will become inconsistent and result in greater risk of project failure due to increased time necessary to make subsequent modifications.

False

Entropic failure of conceptual integrity is probably the most common reason for software project failure. (The second most common reason is delivering something other than what the customer wanted.)

What does the research on actual industry projects say about this topic (courtesy of one of my UVA professors, Ryan Nelson):

http://gates.comm.virginia.edu/rrn2n/MISQE%206-07.pdf

Scrolling down to page 74 shows a list of reasons why projects fail. Technical causes are not found until #23 on the list. Mismatch between the expected product and requirements is #8 on the list.

Source: Nelson, R. R., “IT Project Management: Infamous Failures, Classic Mistakes, and Best Practices, MIS Quarterly Executive, Vol. 6, No. 2, (June 2007), pp. 67-78.

Aug 24, 2010
What is data science?radar.oreilly.com

An interesting article on the explosion of machine generated data and what uses it may have both today and in the future.

Aug 23, 2010
Build What Had Previously Not Been Possiblejasonlbaptiste.com

Jason’s on to something big here: 

Social Context

Having Facebook Connect or seeing which Twitter users you follow on an app used to be something to tout as an innovation. Now this is becoming the standard.

There are two broad methods for getting your startup’s new product or web application in front of other people: push and pull. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and advertising are mostly pull models because users have to be searching for something similar to your product or service to see the advertisement. But with the social context, you can add the pull model: seed your great service to your large network and keep plugging it. Get people to love it and use incentives to get them to broadcast it to their friends, expanding the influence to other potential users.

Pull won’t replace push because it’s still very important to capture users who actually are looking for your service. But with the growing importance of the social context, it would be foolish for consumer-based startups to ignore gaining new users through the pull model.

Aug 6, 2010
#social #advertising #startup
GWT Presentationprezi.com

Did a presentation on GWT on Friday. Prezi is great.

Aug 4, 2010
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