Salesforce’s Apex: Choosing Safety Over Velocity

I think the reason why is because SF is approaching application development as a form-based and database-driven exercise.

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What I don’t get is why Salesforce.com chose to create a strongly typed, compiled language. Okay, I do get it, because they hint at their reasoning in [...]

The best of Office 2.0

I posted some thoughts over at VentureBeat on what I thought were highlights of the Office 2.0 conference last week

Venture Beat Contributors » The best of Office 2.0: In fact, I was gratified to hear a range of people saying (out loud mind you) that this isn’t about Microsoft at all but rather evolving the next [...]

Data Security as a Customer Satisfaction Tool

I received this letter the other day, followed up by two phone calls from the dealership confirming that I received it. This is the second such letter I have received in the last month, the other one coming from Chase Bank concerning a data tape (remember those things!) that had been discarded as trash when [...]

JPG Magazine: Brave New Photography

Om told me about JPG Magazine a while back and I just haven’t found the right theme to fit it in with so I’m writing about it standalone because I think it is so cool.

The idea is simple, if everyone were an editor vis-a-vie wisdom of crowds would the final product, in this case a [...]

Enterprise Conference vs. Office 2.0

This is exactly why I couldn’t wait to get out of big enterprise… all anyone talks about is “compliance” and the first part of any conversation is bound to begin with “here’s why it won’t work…”

OF COURSE I AM GENERALIZING SO STEP BACK FROM THE KEYBOARD.

But in all seriousness, the Office 2.0 conference was [...]

Ray Noorda, 1924-2006: Innovative ‘father’ of network computing

Say what you will about Novell, but the fact remains that Novell under Noorda was instrumental in making the PC something much more than just a desktop PC.

Ray Noorda, 1924-2006: Innovative ‘father’ of network computing:

SALT LAKE CITY — Ray Noorda, the Novell Inc. founder who battled Microsoft Corp. in the early years of network [...]

Bad Week for Baseball Players on Airplanes

Another baseball player has airplane problems, which I normally would find very uninteresting were it not for the system that stopped the G2 private jet. I would love to see a video of this in action.

The twin-engine jet was stopped by the Engineered Materials Arresting System, a 200-foot-long stretch of pavement injected with air bubbles [...]

Teqlo: What It Means for Customers

A little over a month ago I left SAP for a startup and at the time I declined to name the company I was joining. I would like to say that this was part of some brilliant marketing plan but the fact is that I joined a very early stage company and we had to [...]

Lotus Notes - The Asbestos of Enterprise IT

Rod is in a dogfight with some folks at IBM. Honestly, I don’t know much about Notes other than implementing it and writing some apps for it back in 1995′ish. I really doubt that the Lotus Notes of 2006 is much like the 1995 version, so I won’t comment on Notes itself. I can’t tell [...]

The People at Ramcolo are a Bunch of Idiots

For a couple of months now I have been receiving email from various addresses at ramcolo.com. It’s pretty clear they confused my gmail address with someone else and for whatever reason they keep ignoring my frequent requests to stop sending me stuff. So far they have sent me:

1) one Windows XP Pro license key (which [...]

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