Miko Matsumura Enterprise Software Executive Technologist

Unboxing and new laptop batteries

Hi folks, A bit off topic, but there seems to be a bit of debate out there about what to do with a new laptop or netbook. For techies, the impulse is to unbox and get hands-on as quickly as possible. This impulse comes from deep within what Sigmund Freud identified as the Id, anatomically associated with the brain stem and the thalamus, the brain's primitive center of sex and aggression. Here is an example of the appropriate emotions that technology nerds experience when they hear the...

Entertaining and heartfelt post about REST

I like the passion, style, and urgency of this post and concur that IT is going through a pretty major upheaval right now. Let me start by saying that IT is dying. No, Nick Carr did not kill it. No, it is not dying because “It does not matter”. It is dying because IT can’t do its job. IT can’t do it’s job because ever since we left the mainframe era IT has been served sub-optimal technologies, developed in a hurry by people largely incompetent (on the business...