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Thursday, November 27th, 2008Burke Forney Hill is one of my best friends. She is the wife of another one of my best friends, Curtis
“Skipper” Hill (a.k.a SkipperDbug). Today will be my 23rd year of celebrating Thanksgiving with them. Burke and Skipper are the finest cooks I know, and when it comes to southern cooking, forgetaboutit…
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Top 5 Goals for 2009
Sunday, November 16th, 2008Plan 09 from Johnmwillis.com
Typically around this time of year folks start thinking about what their goals are for the next year. Not me, I am usually thinking about College Football’s national champion and what I am going to get for Christmas. However, this year things have changed a little bit and since my […]
You’re on my Fedora
Friday, November 14th, 2008Inspired by the recent TechCrunch write up about the GirlInYourShirt I have decided to take her on. I spoke to a VC firm “C Morgan Ventures“last night and they believe there is money to made in the “*Your in or on*” market space. Therefore I am announcing my new service called “YourOnMyFedora”. […]
Tata - Don’t be evil - We Hope
Thursday, November 13th, 2008While our silly part of the globe argues who’s more evil - Microsoft or Google, Tata seems to be slowley taking over that other part of the world. Let’s just hope they are playing by the same rules.
NTT DoCoMo Moves Into India, Buys a Piece of Tata
RESTful Web services: The basics
Thursday, November 13th, 2008Developerworks…
It Looks Like the Valley no Longer Walks on Water!
Monday, November 10th, 2008As of October 24, more than 80% of Silicon Valley’s 150 largest publicly traded companies have employees holding underwater options, according to executive compensation research firm Equilar. CEOs at 90% of those companies also held options worth less than their strike price.
Everybody’s Underwater In Silicon Valley
This Sounds SOA Good
Monday, November 10th, 2008Using SOA Now - Upcoming Talk
Join RedMonk Industry Analyst Michael Cote and open source software provider, MuleSource for a 60-minute webinar. In this webinar, Michael Cote will build a case for why leveraging the benefits of SOA is all the more crucial in a tight budget environment. During this time, Michael will also explain how […]
OpenNMS 1.6.0
Saturday, November 8th, 2008The last production version, 1.2.0, was aimed to compete squarely with Hewlett-Packard’s OpenView Network Node Manager product. This release builds upon that work to expand the reach of OpenNMS to other parts of the OpenView family as well as to provide an open source alternative to products such as Tivoli’s Netcool.
What’s New?:
OpenNMS now runs on […]
Non-Compete Agreements and the Abyss
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008With all the hoopala regarding the recent IBM/Apple spat over Mark Pappermater’s non compete, I thought I might add to my “Abyss” series of blogs.
You could say I earned my law degree on the street. I always joke that I paid 50k for my “law degree” the year I left my first startup. […]
What do you get when you put two really smart guys together to talk about clouds?
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008A freaking great podcast…
James Urquhart and Geva Perry have started a great new cloud podcast series called Outcast. I listened to their first podcast last night on my ride home from work.
Overcast: Conversations on Cloud Computing
My Cloud Presentation in Holland
Monday, November 3rd, 2008Cloud Talk
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A Cyberfeminist Utopia
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008I have taught over 10,000 IBM professionals over the last 10 years. I have also attended over a hundred technical conferences in that same period. My empirical data from all these events suggests that less than five percent of the personnel in IT are woman. There are people a lot smarter than me trying to […]
I never got a wake up call this morning; It must have been a freaking DNS problem.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008Kris Buytaert invited me to the T_Dose open source meeting last weekend. Since I am teaching for IBM during the week I try to save my Open Source clothes for the weekend. So when Kris asked how I got all that cool apparel, I told him to do this…
You should let me wet […]
How to Save $10 Million Dollars While Staring into the Abyss
Monday, October 27th, 2008If you are an IBM enterprise customer it is now time to come to the aid of your fellow enterprise. Quit whining about how management will never accept open source. Now is no time to be shy. Go ahead and try and save your company $10 million dollars, how can it hurt. […]
Top 7 Things to do When Staring into the Abyss
Monday, October 27th, 2008Every time I hear the “R” word it reminds me of how long I have been working as an IT professional. Officially, I have been in IT Management for 30 years, however, only 28 years in a professional capacity. This will be the third time in my career that I will have to […]
If you can’t spot the dumbest guy in the room in the first half hour, then you are the dumbest guy in the room.
Sunday, October 26th, 2008Now, I’m not saying I am dumb, however, there were a lot of really smart people at this table last night. I attended a special dinner event after the T-Dose conference last night. We had great conversations ranging from history, education, rise and fall of the American empire, Coen brothers movies, and of […]
A new programming language for cloud developers
Saturday, October 11th, 2008When the going gets tough the VC’s get rough!
Friday, October 10th, 2008Sequoia Capital’s 56 Slide Presentation Of Doom
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The IT Skeptic is the Bill Bryson of Service Management
Thursday, October 9th, 2008How dare he make fun of IT Service Management. Service Catalog’s and CMDB’s are as sacred as mom and apple pie. Rob England’s (The IT Skeptic) new book “Introduction to Real ITSM” takes em all on. Vendors, ITIL, COBIT, and CMMI are not safe in […]
September Roundup!
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008Hadoop
Hadoop + Python = Happy
MapReduce programming with Apache Hadoop
Some Hadoop Links
Cloud Cafe
Cloud Cafe Podcast #16 - 3Tera - The Citrix Announcement
Cloud Cafe #15 - RightScale the On-Ramp to the Cloud
Cloud Cafe #14 GigaSpaces and the Cloud
Cloud Cafe #12 rPath and the Cloud
IT Management Guys
IT Management Podcast #21 - Clouds are Stupid, Windows on EC2, Cloud […]
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