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Interesting contest in the famous Lifehacker blog: Share your primary operating system.
Here are the results for Lifehackers’s readers: does it mean that MS did a good job after years of failure (Vista!) in the OS space?
Share your thoughts and your preferences!
PierG
Interesting video: fake? Need an update?
PierG
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In adopting IT technologies, IT managers and companies tend to have two kind of strategies.
There are the Late Adopters: they resist resist and resist. They touch their system the less than is possible: what’s stable don’t have to be touched. Less migrations, less change, more continuity to end users.
There are the Early Adopters: they migrate to the new technology ASAP. They don’t want to cope with tails of old technologies, they might be ‘geeks’, they might have demanding users and they prefer to cope with migrations than with service packs or back compatibility. More migrations, more change, more risk, less continuity, more features.
What’s the best approach for you? Are you an early or late adopter?
PierG
Interesting initiative of a group inside Google called: The Data Liberation Front
Their goal is to support and promote an easy move of data from and to Google systems.
Users own the data they store in any of Google’s products.
Our team’s goal is to give users greater control by making it
easier for them to move data in and out.
This is an intriguing provocation as in these days a lot have been written about privacy, ownership and personal backups of user’s data stored in important social networks (starting from the ubiquitous Facebook).
Not clear though what’s up with possible copies of my data if I get them out of Google 
Follow the Data Liberation Blog here.
PierG
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As usual, when I stay with my son, I get a lot of inspiration.
Few week ago I was explaining to a friend of mine how I changed the way I live my personal life since I’m a father. Mainly:
- I keep doing nearly what I used to do before;
- I do it respecting, above all, the basic needs of my son: playing, eating at some specific time, sleeping for a certain amount of time at specific time .
So, for example, when I go out for dinner in a nice place I arrive earlier to let him eat at the proper time, I get some small toys to let him play, I go out early.
I think this is the same approach people should use when the need to buy an application for a specific need / process. Implementing a process with the help of a tool: remember not force the application to do what is not built to do, do not force too much the process to follow the tool.
Find a good balance: otherwise you’ll have a bad dinner, your son will be nervous, and you’ll probably ruin the evening.
PierG
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Interesting post by Michael Hugos called: Agile Software Development Depends on Pair Programming. Michael is at the Agile 2009 conference in Chicago to find about the state of agile software development and live posts about the Pair Programming practice.
A good article especially if you are in some way new to the agile software development paradigms: it gives you a flavor of the benefits of Pair Programming and talks about the Myth of the Hero Programmer.
And I think reality is a bit more complex and we have to remember that the goal is creating value and not adhering to principles or practices. So I agree with what Kent Beck point out in a recent article To Fix Or Not To Fix?: Another Good Question
When I noted that tests needed to be used thoughtfully on the runway I was accused of abandoning my principles, of having no pride, of not being a craftsman. None of these is true, not of testing, not of defects, and not of (coming next) design. The higher principle I follow is to create as much value with my skills and talent as I can.
PierG
Anti IF campaign live @Deiva Marina
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Integrating information systems is not a technical or architectural stuff but an organizational stuff.
For this reason an integration problem is not solved with a new tool but with a new process. Period.
PierG
Thanks to this post in the FlowingData blog, I’ve discovered a very interesting site for IT people: the IT dashboard of the US government.
I think it’s a great initiative, an example of transparency, and I’m sure it’s going to be a mine of information and an important source for reasoning about IT dashboards.
What’s your feedback? Do you use dashboards to control your IT?
PierG
I’ve just received this interesting tool
It answers to the question: tell me how big is your organization, and I’m gonna tell you how much you will save moving to Google Apps.
It’s nice … and it’s very strange I’ve received it via normal mail while they have the same tool online.
How do they know CIOs and IT Manager are not keen in using innovative technologies like a browser or an email being to busy to ‘connect with the business’?
PierG
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