November 2005

Sens 5 Canes 3

November 22, 2005

The Sens redeemed themselves tonight.  It was an away game in Carolina, and although they came close to disaster several times, they pulled it off.  The final goal, in the last 0.9 seconds of the game, was an empty netter by Peter Schaefer.  Victory was all the more poignant because of Chris Neil’s absence.  He [...]

Read the full article →

TorCamp

November 22, 2005

Randy has been prodding me to go to TorCamp this weekend for a month or so.  Looks interesting.  I’ll blog what I can of it. 

Read the full article →

Skype Reorg Rumblings…

November 22, 2005

The secondary organizational impacts of EBay’s acquisition of Skype are about to be felt, I’ve heard.  Following Rajiv Dutta’s appointment as President, three new senior VP level people will be coming into the organization:  Finance, US Operations, and API/Commerce solutions.  It seems that Skype’s culture is undergoing a swift change from being disruptive punks to a business oriented "show [...]

Read the full article →

SSE: A Real World Problem Being Addressed

November 22, 2005

Yesterday’s announcement by Microsoft of the Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) to RSS made a lot of news.  Bloggers chimed in everywhere too, which means I am late for the party. I had a quick read of the draft spec last night, and read Ray Ozzie’s blog posting on the topic.  The problem SSE is solving has been [...]

Read the full article →

Singularity vs Neutrino

November 21, 2005

I had lunch (Thai, if it matters) today with my friend Linda Campbell, who runs the strategic alliances group at QNX Software Systems.  Over the lunch, I asked if she had heard about the Microsoft Research Group’s experimental OS called Singularity.  Like QNX Neutrino, Singularity is also a micro-kernal based system.   We speculated that perhaps [...]

Read the full article →

Hugh Gallagher: Man of Many Talents

November 21, 2005

MSN Desktop Search really is a marvelous tool.  Occasionally it turns up the most unexpected things, such as this hilarious college admissions essay which I received in email in 1995.  It was hidden away in an email archive on my home PC.  Enjoy… ——— This is an actual essay written by a college applicant. The author, [...]

Read the full article →

The Tom and Ernie Show

November 21, 2005

Tom Howe’s Ernie Project continues to attract attention.  The latest two posts on his blog include a high level Ernie Architecture, and some cool brainstorming ideas he’s received by email.  I think the PayPal PIN idea is pretty cool.  What I want is *P on my phone.  The scenario: I am driving somewhere, and need [...]

Read the full article →

Voice Over Everything? Of Course!

November 21, 2005

The Voice 2.0 meme is really starting to click.  The idea that voice and the web, together, is a powerful new platform for applications is spreading.  The latest thoughts on this come from Ted Wallingford in his piece Voice Over Everything.  Ted writes: We now see voice apps beginning to meld with the Web. Voice over [...]

Read the full article →

My Contact Info

November 21, 2005

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. –_——-==2532297255 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=”_–=======1065519964″ –_–=======1065519964 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Weblog, I’m just giving you my updated contact information. Iotum has moved offices, and since I’ve begun using the Iotum Relevance Engine to manage my calls, I’m only publishing one phone number: +1 613-482-9088. To borrow [...]

Read the full article →

We Use Agile Programming Methods

November 21, 2005

I can’t resist linking this Dilbert cartoon (click to see it full size). Agile programming methods, including Extreme Programming, are how we build software at Iotum.  It’s been incredibly effective for us, allowing us to turn out higher quality software at a faster rate than otherwise.  The other major tool we’ve adopted is the programming language [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →

Alec on LinkedIn Alec on Twitter Alec on Facebook Calliflower on Youtube RSS Feed Contact me