Michael Platt's WebLogComputer EngineeringInnovation and Llamas- August 21, 2006 No, I didnt get it either but here is an article by IBM on Llamas and innovation. The interesting thing for me is that Andy used to work for me many moons ago at IBM and hasnt changed a bit! He's now a master inventor though, we didnt have those in my day.http://blogs.technet.com/michael_platt/archive/2006/08/21/448298.aspx Windows Live Writer- August 16, 2006 We have just announced availability of the Beta of Windows Live Writer. This is a really great product and very important (IMHO)http://blogs.technet.com/michael_platt/archive/2006/08/16/447265.aspx Blinq- August 16, 2006 We have just announced a new tool called Blinq which produces a webform from a database schema. This is a really neat product which will make generating database based applications much easier. Its been suggested that it's a framework like Ruby on Rails. In my opinion this is not correct, it is a scaffold built from the schema like a rails scaffold but does not include the language or framework elements of ROR. Tim has it right in his comparison. Mind you it wouldnt be difficult to..http://blogs.technet.com/michael_platt/archive/2006/08/16/447263.aspx Gartners Latest Hype cycle- August 16, 2006 There are a ton of things that have come out which I feel are pretty important that I haven't blogged about so I will try to catch up a bit. First off Gartner's latest prognostications put Web 2.0 at the top of the things to watch for the enterprise. As a matter of interest I went back to see when I came to that conclusion and it was last November, I actually blogged about it in Febuary. Funnily enough I have noticed that I am quite often about six months ahead of where the industry is..http://blogs.technet.com/michael_platt/archive/2006/08/16/447260.aspx Software + Services: An Architectural Perspective- August 14, 2006 I have spent the last couple of weeks pulling together my rather disjointed thoughts about the Architecture of Software + Services into a short article which has just been published on MSDN. Enjoy!http://blogs.technet.com/michael_platt/archive/2006/08/14/446805.aspx Innovation- August 14, 2006 I have been blogging for a while about business value and how the whole Web 2.0 thing in the enterprise will be about business value and not productivity. I am convinced this is the way things are going and so was doing some research in the whole business value area which lead me to technology driven innovation and innovation generally. There is some great work going on in innovation by companies such as GE and IBM, interestingly enough I used to work in an indirect way for Irving...http://blogs.technet.com/michael_platt/archive/2006/08/14/446800.aspx |