Since you are now selling access to me, why am I not getting a fiscal benefit as a result?
Is this different from Linkedin's paid messages as those are work/career context that has a precedent?
Is this different from Postal mail?
Exactly. I don't want a touch phone, I want a slider keyboard phone. HTC made great ones and now I can't find any.
How about Larry "Sugarbear" Reyes? You don't need a technical head, just some guy from Rackspace to run around in a straight jacket.
I am a Release manager at Acquity Group and have worked for "Old School" software companies that have their eyes blazing at all the new web companies that release release release all day long.
Here is the abbreviated philosophic path to victory:
DevOps.
Your developers need to act like operations (knowing how the code is deployed and configuration settings, routes and the like) guys and your operations guys need to start coding (as in ruby for puppet and chef, automation and automation and automation)
This leads to...
Infrastructure as Code.
Hire a Release Engineer or convert a sysadmin to start automating builds. Now you start automating code deployments, you start automating infrastructure deployments so they are repeatable.
This leads to...
Test Automation.
Now you need to stop focusing on smoke testing and have test automation engineers write automated test code.
One more thing...
Automated Rollback
When things go nuts, with fast deploys you need fast rollback. Capistrano is a great tool for deploying this way, rollback is very easy.
Now you can
Continuous Delivery.
Great, you got this far, your builds, testing, deploys are automated!
For Developers:
Coding for Continuous Delivery is a different paradigm where unfinished code makes it to production. This means that in the production configuration, settings for the new code must be activated by switches to turn new feature sets on. You don't want that unfinished code mucking up your site, right?
People Processes:
Do you have CAB boards and ITIL processes? Great, make them faster and more as DEV/TEST/QA becomes automated and just focus on UAT/Prod environments. See this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Visible-Ops-Handbook-Implementing/dp/0975568612/
I can also gloss over on waterfall/Agile and hybrid software models.
Finally, unless your culture wants to shift, it may be damned near impossible to change the culture unless management wants to. If it's doomed, it's doomed!
Great job on the correct link attributions in summary. Gold star.
All right, we get sick of Slashdot editor bashing, but this needs to be addressed.
The link to the Chicago Tribune is from a Reuters newsfeed. The attribution should be to Reuters, via Chicago Tribune.
For quick reference, any "feed" stories from tribune company are going to have "sns" in the title. Other papers will vary.
(From a former Tribune Co. Employee).
There is even more to the story, as the mother "opted-in" for the food inspection program but forgot she did so. It was a non-story story. I forgot about this additional blog post:
Enjoy: http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2012/02/15/a-north-carolina-non-troversy/
The Turkey Sandwich story is a bunch of hysterical bunk that was rapidly picked up by Fox News and Huffington Post. It was a bunch of poorly worded reporting by the original source, Carolina Journal.
Please read: http://www.carolinajournal.com/jhdailyjournal/display_jhdailyjournal.html?id=8780 for the real deal.
H2?! The Ancient Aliens Bull Shit network? All of History channel, RIP.
... Just ask the friendly NSA guy in the datacenter for a copy of your data.
Seriously, would anyone trust their (cloud) data to T after the NSA thing?
"CNN is reporting, via Chicago Tribune" is the correct way to attribute the link in the story.
Here is the Chicago Tribune version: http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/la-pn-tsa-implants-20110706,0,1632570.story
From the basement of Trib Tower...
Social Business? A new buzz word for mutual company, co-op, credit union or non profit. I love it! Let's realign all business models around Facebook...
The WSJ article was way, way early on this. The website is http://3rdi.me/ . Look for more in the coming weeks.
Colonel Tribune plays Mafia Wars AND Farmville.
(and we might have a redirect in place before slashdot editors can fix it)...
On behalf of Colonel Tribune and Interactive Support deep in the heart of Tribune Tower.
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek
