Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Its been 18 months or so, since I started on " Giving up on Microsoft software for work ". It has been an interesting adventure, one fraught with skepticism from some, but with joy from myself. The big question I faced then was, "Was it possible...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
This is an article that appeared on Australian Flexible Learning Framework websites in August 2009 from their e-newsletter. It is based on an interview that I gave and thought I'd share it with you. The risky business of social media Social...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Gartner's top 10 Strategy Technology Areas for 2010 Via Annie Shum's blog entry at MIT CIO Symposium blog . This is very interesting and reinforces the strong interest I've been observing with cloud computing. In addition, when you have...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Every time someone views my actual blog page (as opposed to reading it in a feed reader), it records some statistics about the visitor. I'm using a widget located at the bottom right hand side of my blog from ClustrMaps , to create the following graphic. ...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: Portal | By: Nick Hortovanyi
'The aggregators and plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content,' Murdoch says. These are some interesting words, which I found from a Slashdot article, titled " Rupert Murdoch Says Google is Stealing His Content...
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When I was a young programmer, the key punch ladies used to make cup cakes for the rest of the IT department. All of us enjoyed them at morning tea time, as well as the corresponding witty and fun conversation that was part of that daily ritual. What happened...
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"The present time is the age of communication and control." (from Cybernetics , 1948 ) Norbert Wiener wrote Cybernetics in 1948. Cybernetics, Second Edition 1965 is still available from Amazon. But what amazes me is the quote is still...
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This is a presentation that I have been working on over the last year. It is being well received, so I thought I'd share it with you through slideshare. Have embedded it here for your convenience. Toast Social Media 20090804 View more presentations ...
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IBM has facilitated through the Open Cloud Manifesto , a Cloud Computing Use Cases White Paper. This work is an ongoing collaboration of cloud consumers and cloud vendors with a corresponding google group being used. Cloud Computing Use Cases Whitepaper
Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Simon Wardley of Canonical Inc, the main sponsor of Ubuntu, recently gave the following talk at OSCON 2009. In the talk, Simon suggests that it is not just about the technology but a consequence of change in multiple factors - concept, suitability,...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
A very interesting YouTUBE video from Jeff Bezos, who is the founder of Amazon. Found the video on Thomas Otter's blog here . Key points: Obsess about your customers, not your competitors Invent Think long term - payback usually 5...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
There is a "nosql" community growing and they apparently met not too long ago in San Francisco. A blog entry " NOSQL debrief " has some good presentations and videos that can be viewed that were produced as part of that community event. ...
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I found this excellent little video from Stephen Collin's blog acidlabs . Have embedded it here for your convenience. It cheered up my day . Hope it does the same for you.
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Anybody involved in enterprise sales will enjoy this video
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
I've been avoiding writing a blog post that expels the virtues of twitter. And I'm not doing it. What I'm going to do is describe to you my enjoyable experiences last night with Stilgherrian Live . @stilgherrian is a colour full character that I've been...
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A little while back McKinsey published a report on clearing the air on cloud computing . It created quite a lot of buzz on the internet. Nicholas Carr on his blog entry here " the big company and the cloud ", suggested that he looked...
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I started watching the Google I/O Keynote yesterday, and thought this is going to eat up nearly an hour and an half of my time, so I put it on the back burner. Off I went reading my blogs and others sites. Eventually I came across an article written by...
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This document was sent to me by email today. It is a very interesting read regarding Microsoft's practices that affect the openness of the Internet, consumer choice and competition in general. Updated... new reference now to Groklaw .
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Microsoft is to be Keynoting Sun's Java One conference. I wasn't sure if I had read this correctly from James Governor's blog post , so I reread it. Yes there it is, here I'll quote it for you, if you don't believe me, James said "Microsoft is...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
For a while we have been running our own email server with a postfix setup using google apps for your domain (GAFYD) for calendar services. I'd setup GAFYD under a different domain from toasttechnology.com (yes, it was a little untidy) and also wanted to...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
I woke up this morning to the news that Oracle, which on April 20 said it will purchase Sun for $7.4 Billion USD. This news came, just after IBM withdrew its offer earlier in the month. One of the key assets of Sun, is the Java programming language. Larry...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
For years, it had been drummed into me, to use a relational database system (RDBMS). It was something that was just accepted, there wasn't any point arguing against it, as it appeared to just work. Data, the lifeblood of any system, could even be recovered in...
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Ever wonder how Google is able to achieve efficiencies in its data centers? Then have a look at this video. Its style reminded me a little of the documentaries from the 50s and 60s. Just thinking about it, I'm not sure how I'd go about doing a...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
I hear this all too often, "We don't do software development" inferring that preference is given to buying software packages. What about this one, "We are in the process of vendor consolidation and procurement don't like adding new...
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