Tag: web service management

A lot of business relationships exist where one side is much more powerful than the other.  Walmart's relationship with their suppliers is a text book example - Walmart is definitely the dominant one: "Here's how you're going to work...

Anyone ever see David Letterman's stupid pet tricks? I think we should have a tech show called stupid IT tricks. I recently heard that one CIO's strategy for meeting user requirements...

What is Google App Engine? Here is a good description from their website:

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Wow, things have really changed. I remember the first WS on Wall Street show I was at in '03 (if memory serves). It was all about "web service proxies." It was hard to tell the differentiation between the vendors, and,...

My grandfather's curiosity makes him seem younger than his 90 years. After the war, he, an immigrant in NY, became, among other things, a tailor. For the past 10 years or so, each time I've visited, at some point the conversation would turn to my job, and he would pointedly ask, "But, what do...

Breaking a bit of tradition… there is a funny story in here but not until after I let you into my head for a second. Now, don’t be scared.

I've recently been doing some research on social computing. I'm not even close to being a "visionary" - that's...

To my own astonishment, there are times when I appear to be the "smart guy in the room." In fact, when I delivered the last new employee training, someone jokingly changed my title to Condescente. Or, was that Cognoscente?

Whatever, my point is... that it's not...

"Back when I was on the Architecture Committee, the developers never listened to me.  But, now that I'm Enterprise Architect, I'll show them.  I'll put in so many governance policies that they won't know what hit them.  And there's nothing they can do about it -...