I was genuinely surprised when I heard that Amazon acquired Zappos. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is person I genuinely admire and is true inspiration. My first reaction was disappointment, as I was secretly looking forward to battle between Amazon and Zappos, two great internet retailers. However when I think about it, this is really fantastic [...]
Software Craftsmanship
There seems to be much interest in steering software development away from rigid planning and engineering methods as it was tried in the past and more towards a craft and discipline that is not that much precise and predictable and is more indirectly controlled. This year in Chicago we will have a conference on Software [...]
Oh, Google OS
Oh boy what excitement Google announcement created. They will create a browser OS?! And this is somehow special and unique (InstantOn anyone?). Mike Arrington is up in flames posting on tech crunch. He can already see his CrunchPad running with beautiful new OS.
As always I am skeptical. For start the most important reason is:
* They [...]
Upgrading to Win7
Today I took a plunge and went ahead to get Win7 early. Thing is that however nice Win7 is, it doesn’t really bring that much in terms of innovation, frankly I was considering not spending the money if it is $200, especially because we don’t have one, but 4 win machines. So being early I [...]
