Comments on: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

By: Integration is the new Operation – this decade and next

Integration is the new Operation – this decade and next — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:45:43 +0000

[...] I’m a bit tired of all the use of the word integrated and integration over the last few weeks and months. I would like to say: “You keep using that word. I think it does not mean what you think it means” [...]

By: Integration is the new Operation – this decade and next

Integration is the new Operation – this decade and next — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:45:43 +0000

By: We need a better definition for “mash-up” – PEG

We need a better definition for “mash-up” – PEG — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:12:02 +0000

[...] Mash-up no longer seems to mean was we thought it meant. The term has been claimed by the analysts and platform vendors as short hand for the current collection of hot product features, and no longer represents the goals and benefits of those original mash-ups that drew our interest. If we want to avoid the hype, firmly tying mash-up to the benefits we saw in those first solutions, then we need to reclaim the term, basing its definition on the outcomes those first mash-up solutions delivered, rather than the (fairly) conventional means used to deliver them. [...]

By: Martijn Linssen

Martijn Linssen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:28:53 +0000

Well, he was, actually, just not by ye olde authorities. http://twitter.com/Martin_V came across my path (or vice versa) just very recently, he has a splendid Brit way with words, reminds me of Socrates

http://www.cio.co.uk/opinion/veitch/2009/11/13/... is a good start. Along the line of British custom there's just dart-like 180's all over the place without even daring to think of a solution (solution equals Guinness didn't it, or was it the other way around?)

Honestly, the problem is not about debunking the "nobility titles and persons" in IT, it's about preventing the competition from taking advantage of that after we did so. We (they! LOL) all love to shallow in vanity

One cure though: you'd think twice if it were your own purse...
Of course that's why governments are a programmer's paradise, an architect's wet dream, are filled with 'innovation' that's even more 'agile' than Mr. Agility himself, and the result is -read my lips- NOW NEW taxes

Commitment is key. So is knowledge. Territory marks it all. Yours, and "the Others". Quoting Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar: "Could we start again, please?"

By: Peter Evans-Greenwood

Peter Evans-Greenwood — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:56:35 +0000

Summoning Socrates would be an interesting, and possibly unpopular, move. But then, he wasn't the most popular bloke in his own time

By: Martijn Linssen

Martijn Linssen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:42:05 +0000

This post makes me smile, laugh, and cry a little bit at the same time

I remember my first month of working for my first IT company, and staring at the bulletin board. I was actually quite mift at the manager putting up that very note as I thought he should know very well that more than 3 abbreviations per sentence was impolite to say the least

We just take too little mind (sic) to understand what people mean when they say something, thus we live by assumptions
If I had a time machine and a cloning one at the same time (…), I'd summon Socrates and unleash him unto the world. Seems like fun, and about time (sorry for that)

By: Martijn Linssen

Martijn Linssen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:28:53 +0000

By: Peter Evans-Greenwood

Peter Evans-Greenwood — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:56:35 +0000

Summoning Socrates would be an interesting, and possibly unpopular, move. But then, he wasn't the most popular bloke in his own time

By: Martijn Linssen

Martijn Linssen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:42:05 +0000

This post makes me smile, laugh, and cry a little bit at the same time

By: Chris Bird

Chris Bird — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:09:03 +0000

Every now and again I verb another noun