It seems surprising that Airbus has conceived a system preventing one pilot from easily assessing the actions of the colleague beside him. And yet that is how their latest generations of aircraft are designed. #HCI
We suspect that as the Wikidata Project begins to provide “trust and provenance” in its form of web communications, they will not just be granularizing single facts but also immutabilizing the data elements to which those facts are linked so that even the content providers of those data elements cannot change them. This is critical for trust and provenance in whole chain communications between supply chain participants who have never directly interacted.
MG Seigler piles on “the known knowns”. “We also know there are known unknowns” - Microsoft changing to cross-platform and open source support (really, Hadoop, Node.js, .NET commits). “But there are also unknown unknowns” - No Steve Jobs - Forrester: Apple is Entering a Long Decline
Earlier today, I wrote an anti-Microsoft post. Actually, it wasn’t so anti-Microsoft, I thought I was decidedly fair. My thesis was basically that Microsoft was done in the consumer space, but that they’d continue to do well as an enterprise company going forward.
Essentially, they’d follow the IBM path. Nothing wrong with that. IBM is still a great company, they’re just different from what they once were.
For some reason though, all anyone cares about is the consumer space. And, let’s be honest, Apple now owns it. If it’s not clear to you now, it will be in a year. Or two years max. It’s just the way it is.
In five years, Microsoft will be known as an enterprise company. That’s not controversial in my book, it’s just an observation on where things are headed.
Anyway…
Redis is a key/value store, but it’s jam-packed with a ton of other little utilities that make it a joy to explore and implement. Two of these are the PUBLISH and SUBSCRIBE commands, which enable you to do quick messaging and communication between processes. Granted, there’s plenty of other…
The key to the company’s success is the use of technology to streamline the production chain. Ms. Abbas explains, “M-Farm has a contract with a local exporter, who buys the produce directly from the farmers” using their mobile devices. This gives farmers access to a reliable and guaranteed market that enjoys stable year-round prices while eliminating middlemen and lowering transaction costs.
According to Ms. Abbas, this system sets M-Farm apart from other organizations. Nevertheless, gaining the trust of the farmers was a difficult process. Many farmers were jaded by initiatives that had left them out to dry when they ran out of funds. “There’s an existing body [of projects] supporting the farmers today, and the next day they are no longer there. This makes farmers skeptical and lose trust” in projects similar to M-Farm.” So, the founders’ strategy is to “spend a lot of time and resources to make the farmers understand we are different.”
” —Revolutionizing ICT and Agribusiness: A Conversation with M-Farm’s Jamila Abass | infoDev.org
Love it.
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Here are my class notes, typed in essay form, from Class 4 of CS183: Startup. Errors, omissions, and/or poor phrasing are my own. Credit for good substance and wording is Peter’s entirely.
CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—April 11—The Last Mover Advantage
I. Escaping Competition
The…
Is better (economical) fluid experience pushing small updates from the server to client using nodejs?Ward Bell is steamed up about SPAs (“Single Page Applications”) as he tries to gauge the present and future prospects for HTML business applications. A typical SPA is a single shell whose contents are repeatedly replaced with new and revisited app pages as the user navigates the app. These pages are created and maintained locally by client-side JavaScript. A SPA app in a browser is largely self-sufficient, visiting the remote host only for data and other services.
Gmail and HotMail are two examples of this trend. Ward thinks SPA might be a fruitful architecture for line-of-business applications, apps that rely on local state and cached data for a responsive, fluid user experience. Many familiar desktop patterns and techniques apply here including MVVM, client-side validation, entity caching and change-sets. We’ll soak in some MVC 4, Web API, jQuery, KnockoutJs and Upshot on our trip to the SPA. Prepare to get wet!
How Google is using OpenFlow to lower its network costs — Cloud Computing News
When Urs speaks, datacenter peeps listen.
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The web development community has been steadily improving as the web grows and matures, and so I hope that eventually we’ll see more people actually adopting HATEOAS and going ‘full RESTful.’
