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Notes from reading Lean Software Engineering Book

These are notes that I took a while ago while reading the book. They have been housed in my OneNote notebook long enough – pushing them to the web where they are more accessible. Eliminate Waste Seeing Waste Partially Done Work Extra Processes Extra Features Task Switching Waiting Motion Defects Value...

Posted to Bryan Hinton's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-29-2009
Intellectual Property and the Internet

Yesterday and today I have been following a story that a contractor for Microsoft China ripped off a lot of code from another microblogging service. ZDNet has a short synopsis of the issue. This got me thinking about the problems of intellectual property. For years the idea of “copy and paste” reuse...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-15-2009
Community Development Opportunities at the LDS Church

This email went around at work the other day and I got permission to reprint it here. A key initiative for the Church’s IT department is to engage with the broader community of software developers who would be interested in working on sanctioned projects that the Church needs to complete. Over the years...

Posted to Bryan Hinton's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-31-2009
19 Reasons Why Microsoft is Huge with Developers (and 1 Reason Why Not)

The title of my blog post is the same as a article from Darryl Taft at eweek. In the article (in the form of a slideshow) we see a list of people, products, and technologies that make Microsoft important to the developer. I agree with all of them. Things like having Bill Gates and Steve Balmer support...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-01-2009
Kumo is officially Bing

As Scott Golightly pointed out on a recent post , the new and overhauled version of Live Search was code-named Kumo. Well... the official name was announced and the new name for the Microsoft Search is Bing. Bing is not yet available to the public, but based on some information gathered over the web...

Posted to Fabio Cavalcante's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-29-2009
Oracle to Buy Sun – A New Platform Contender

The news came out earlier this week that Oracle is going to purchase Sun. At first I thought that was an interesting combination as I think of Oracle as being a database and turnkey solutions company and Sun as being Java and hardware. With almost no overlap I wondered what the motivation could be. I...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-22-2009
Zune 3.0

When I fired up the Zune client this morning to listen to my podcasts I was told that there is a newer version. I updated the client software first on my machine and then upgraded my Zune. There were several things that I liked: I think the new interface is cleaner and easier to navigate. New podcasts...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-19-2008
Update to Live Search

Sometime over the weekend the home page for Live Search at http://www.live.com has been updated. It is a lot cleaner and loads a lot faster. I have only done a few searches with the new page and don't have any feel for changes to the search results. I like the new clean interface but to be honest...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-12-2008
Microsoft to Give Up Buying Yahoo! --- For Now

I just saw that Microsoft is not going to sweeten the deal for Yahoo! any more than it has and has decided against a hostile takeover . I am not sure what Microsoft would have expected to gain but with all the moves that Yahoo! has made lateley to make sure that it is an unattractive takeover target...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-03-2008
Everyone Loves to Hate Spam

I saw a piece in the RISKS digest at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.13.html#subj4 that says spam (unsolicited e-mail) has hit its 30 year anniversary. I also saw an article this morning off the MSN home page http://tech.msn.com/security/article.aspx?cp-documentid=6679669 talking about spam. With all...

Posted to Scott Golightly's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-02-2008

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