It seems like Workday is getting quite a bit of press about their vision for flexible, hosted (ala the Adam Bosworth funded Salesforce.com) ERP software. Looks like Xero might have a fight on it’s hands with SAP and Oracle both trying to enter the hosted mid size business market.
Whats interesting to me about all this [...]
I’ve been mulling over Ron Kohavi’s paper Integrating E-Commerce and Data Mining: Architecture and Challenge. In the space of applications that I work on - Business Intelligence and Analytics are becoming more and more important. It’s not just important that the system allows you to do whatever. (The classic post Blog entries for example). I [...]
This subject has come up a few times in the last few days - I thought I’d take the opportunity to collect my thoughts from various emails and put them here.
Svnmerge.py is a tool which tries to fix the _totally broken_ “svn merge” command. Here’s an example scenario. My repository contains a number of branches [...]
Scott Bellware makes a brillant comment on Hammett’s weblog:
ASP .NET templated controls did almost nothing to encourage separation of orthogonal concerns. It simply ended up separating concerns that aren’t separate concerns.
Pure Genius - this summarises an entire field of criticism (e.g. [1][2]). The whole issue with the OnRowDataBound/FindControl() style of programming is that things which [...]
I managed to find some time to watch this today: Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
Git is a distributed SCM system - Linus wrote it in two weeks. It seems like it’s getting some traction among some of the Rails crowd. Mozilla seriously considered adopting it for Mozilla 2 work but the lack of a [...]
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