Archive for June, 2005

Book Review: The Art of Project Management

Friday, June 24th, 2005

The Program Managerrole at Microsoft is not anything like the “Program Manager” role outside of Microsoft, and is not really the same as a “Project Manager” role at most places. Program Managers in product development are a mix of “Business Analyst” and “Project Manager”, with a few other things thrown in.
For people familiar with the […]

We in the mood to fight

Sunday, June 19th, 2005

My daughter’s ballet recital yesterday featured music by Ying Yang Twins, 50 cent, and Moby. It was not that long ago that each of these acts were underground.
This is a topic Dare blogged recently; calling out his favorite dirty south acts. I’ve followed the evolution of dirty south music since Master P and Silk da […]

The Flipside of Identity

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005

Yesterday, while discussing some of my favorite topics with someone, I argued that identity and semantic web are two sides of the same coin. This is a recurring theme in the 10^10 vision, and it turns out I’ve touched in the topic in this blog before.
Oneperspective is that consistent identityis necessary forbroad implementation of semantic […]

Guha @ Google

Monday, June 13th, 2005

[via Danny] OMG… In the past I have tried to get Google excited about triples. Now I am praying they are not. Let’s just hope Guha got bored with the whole semantics thing and was hired by Google to design search crawler optimizations.

Un-WSDL

Monday, June 13th, 2005

Some REST-heads have spun up a mailing list to discuss creation of a RESTful web-service description language. Some could see this as a counterattack on WS-MEX, and I think the idea of service/contract descriptions is a bit contrary to REST’s advantages (use REST when you want lightweight, loose integration; use WS-* when you want deep […]