Glenn Crouch from ESB Consultancy just posted about this on the ADUG list. It’s basically a “deal of the day”-type site for Delphi-related tools and components. Right at the moment it has LMD DockingPack at 50% off (for the next few hours anyway). Seems to have a few different vendors promoting their products on it. Worth keeping an eye on I think.
New Google Docs looks quite interesting. Kind of what Wave promised but didn’t quite deliver.
The new features in Google Docs look quite interesting. The real-time collaboration pieces look similar to Wave but will probably come with less head-scratching about what to use them for. Were these done in parallel, or should we now assume Wave was just a research project and pieces of it spin off into their real public homes? The new spreadsheet also seems to address some of the things I missed when I first played with it.
App-centric vs doc-centric. Consumption vs Creation?
Sorry, this is a bit of a rambling post, but partly I’m organising my thoughts after reading this article. The basic premise is that we’re heading towards a world of two different types of operating system: a Document-centric OS for “Professionals” and an App-centric OS for everyone else. Not sure I agree on the categorisation of end-users (I’ll come back to that) but the essential idea has some merit.
Learn 7 languages in 7 weeks: Clojure, Haskell, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, and Ruby
Quite interested in this. Somehow doubt I’ll keep to the timeline, nor learn them in any serious depth, but as a tasting platter of a bunch of languages from different families I am considering it. Not sure of the whole beta book thing though. Guess it depends on just how “beta” the content is that they release.
Did Telstra really just say that out loud? /via @zdnetaustralia
There have been some exec changes at Telstra, including the announcement of Kate McKenzie as CMO. Nothing unusual, or terribly noteworthy about that, but I was struck by one sentence in the announcement, regarding the new CMO appointment:
"For the first time, Telstra’s product developers will be brought together with those people responsible for the strategy, pricing, promotion and market analysis of those products."
Read that a couple of times. Essentially, for the first time in Telstra’s history, those responsible for product strategy will be working with those responsible for product delivery!
Strategy and implementation talking to each other? No good can come of this!
Does beg the question, though, what happened before this?
Don’t misunderstand, I’m not shocked that this is true. I suspect it’s true at lots of companies. What shocks me is their honesty, even if it might have been unintentional.