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New character – Ecobunny

ecobunny a new character he is a woodland worrier, your ass is grass, and Im gonna nibble it

Get out of Enterprise Google!

If you combine the modern Californian way of talking and a bit of old school religion you get Googles moto

Dont Be Evil

Here are things you need to know about them

#1

What we see of google on the out side is just the tip of the ice burg. For every idea that gets turned into product they make a 1000 that stay on the inside … this is the innovation methodology

#2

The google Microsoft story is the same as the Microsoft IBM story, to find out what happens to google next read a book.

#3

Google are forcing telcos to behave as a dumb pipe but the Telco’s are not going down without a fight, their response  is IMS.
Both outcomes are anti consumer !

#4

Google are kicking arse in the enterprise space
Google Search appliances are flying off the shelves to the big companies,
For the Small companies the rate of signup to google apps is astonishing
In the education sector they will soon be standard ! especially in higher education. Google K2 is free for this sector and in UK market schools are switching from RM so fast that RM cannot keep up with demand to turn off their services.
The hand that rocks the cradle …

From my  perspective …

Googles applications are great,
how they run their company is great
their attitude to embracing odd balls and weirdos is great.

I just cant help thinking that Its a pathetic that they choose to waste their dreams, talent and creativity on such a pathetic goal as taking down Microsoft

Google if you are listening, another way of saying Don’t be evil, is to say love everyone, and that includes the small state run telcos in little socialist european countries, the developers who want to make a living selling software and microsoft.

Sort it out … you can do so much better that.

MVC framework for PHP

I had a lot of trouble a while ago working with the MVC frameworks from other providers, they all seemed a bit too complex.
So … I made my own one.

Take a look I would love to know what you think?
MVC Framework for PHP

I am going t licence this under creative commons, so please feel free to play with this as much as you like.

Future software delivery model

Essentially, big businesses will rent a service, clever charging models will make the services attractive, for example

“If you rent Atos CRM we will reduce churn by …” or “We will give you our manufacturing service for free if we get a slice of the cost reductions …”

Services will be made of applications, but not as we know them, the apps will be clever mashups of different features from other applications and web services,

This whole layer will be very confusing with millions of interdependent services and features,

Ultimately a small number of massive massive cloud vendors will provide the hosting, there will be alternatives but they will be a bit flakey,

Fixed my White Screen of Death

Wooo yeah !!!!!
I fixed the white scren of death that I was getting on the blog. read about my troubles in full and boring detail on the wordpress forums http://wordpress.org/support/topic/278684?replies=22#post-1113755

A list of some blogs I like to read

Some one asked me what blogs I read. It’s a bit like asking what your favorite films are (of which there are thousands, but I cannot think of one)

To answer the question, generally speaking, Try and get to the source of good thinking or good writing for example I would rather read Kent Beck’s thoughts about integration and development than IBM’s or Microsoft’s, simply because he was the inventor of so many modern practices.

A lot of people will recommend reading blogs by people such as Seth Goddin, Guy Kawasaki, John Medina. I find these too ego centric and way too American for my taste. However Clay Shirky is an exception, and is well worth a read (try and find the “hear comes everybody” video).

Avoid the blogs that have reactive commentary, it is often dull and uninspiring. The Cap Gemini and Gartner blogs fit into this category.

Here are some good links

Kent Beck
Software design and general development guru

http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/

Core 77
often show cases good student design (furniture and stuff), can take itself a little too seriously sometimes

http://www.core77.com/blog/news/inhabitat_fathers_day_green_gift_guide_13702.asp

Martin Fowler
Software design Goliath
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/

Fail Blog
Very very funny
http://failblog.org/

Wired UK
Editorial and commentary about all sorts of technology stuff
http://www.wired.co.uk/

Community Spark
Often insightful but mostly common sense about online communities
http://www.communityspark.com

Oreily
Fountain of all technical knowledge
http://radar.oreilly.com/

Charlie Booker
Writer of Nathan Barley and Screen wipe, very funny and quite angry man

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charliebrooker

A good video on RDFA – semantic web

How to understand collaboration tools quickly

Too many cooks spoil the broth, but many hands make light work,

If you are a natural leader, using a tool that can allow lots and lots of people to work on the same thing at the same time could be a really good recipe for success.

If you have not used collaboration tools before, the quick start is working out how to make google doc work for you and your team.

This is what to do.
Make the next document you make a google doc

Go to http://docs.google.com

Signup and that nonsense,

Then write your document (its just like a simplified version of word)

Then instead of mailing the document to you team, use the “share” button instead.

See how your team get on with this,

After you have the hang of one collaboration tool, you will get really into the whole thing, and the tools are pretty much all the same kind of thing.