IT Jobs – Misplaced Value?

This morning I was discussing an article from CIO.com by Patrick Thibodeau with my colleague Jack Santos. The article “IT Job Seekers Face Hot Yet Terrible Market” discusses how the IT job market is both hot and not, mentions effects from expectation inflation, and that it depends on location, location, location. The article sites a […]

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Rules, principles, belief and faith

Following on from the previous post ‘Rules, principles and the Inverse-Einstein Test‘, there’s an important corollary about real-time sensemaking and and decision-making – it was in my notes for the post, but I forgot to include it, so I’ll do

Architecture Styles

This article is also available as a PDF document. Could businesses benefit from applying different architectural styles to design systems in different areas of the enterprise, just as cities apply different architectural styles for designing Cathedrals, Town Halls, and Bazaars? Applying different architectural styles would practically imply that when designing a system for finance we […]

Rules, principles and the Inverse-Einstein Test

It started with one of those first-thing-in-the-morning ideas that seemingly turn up from nowhere: Principles create a bridge between order and chaos. Order is expressed in rules; principles are expressed in story. Order, principles and chaos: order is an abstraction

Link Collection — July 15, 2012

  • Magazine 2012 July – Best of Maine: Unsung Hikes from an AMC Trip Leader

    “A hiking guide for the Maine Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club, Carey Michael Kish has been exploring Maine’s forests and mountains for more than forty years. He is the editor of the AMC’s recently updated Maine Mountain Guide (amcstore.outdoors.org), beloved by hikers for its detailed no-nonsense trail descriptions and full-color topographical maps. Added to the tenth edition are more than two hundred trails that are either relatively new or often overlooked. We gave Kish, who loves them all, the tough task of recommending ten.”

    tags: maine amc

  • Why the days are numbered for Hadoop as we know it — Cloud Computing News

    Discusses technologies beyond Hadoop, in context of Google’s stack.

    “Most interesting to me, however, is that GMR [Google Map Reduce] no longer holds such prominence in the Google stack. Just as the enterprise is locking into MapReduce, Google seems to be moving past it.”

    tags: hadoop google gigaom

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Related posts:

  1. Link Collection — July 8, 2012
  2. Link Collection — July 1, 2012
  3. Link Collection — February 12, 2012