A Case Study On the Need For a Reputation Engine
This morning, I received an e-mail asking if wed opened up an office in Zambia. Given my fawning over my trip last year to Botswana and South Africa, it…
Separating the True Web From the Tabloid Web
The founder of the World Wide Web fears it has become a web of lies. At the initial test run of the Large Hadron Collider, Sir Tim Berners-Lee cited…
Is Your Airport Giving Up Flights Without a Fight?
ABC News posted a story today positing the imminent decline of the small airport. While the article only specifically cites the reduction of flights at the San Luis Obispo…
The hottest thing in Internet browsers: Google Chrome
Google recently released a beta version of its new web browser appropriately named Chrome. Similar to Google Search, Chrome contains a minimalist, clean and simple user interface. It appears as…
Leveraging Multimedia for Learning
A couple months ago I served on the CBIC Innovation Awards research committee. I was able to sit in on an interview with Beth White from Western Albemarle High…
Day 2 of AFCEA LandWarNet
Eric Pugh and I are at Day 2 of AFCEA`s LandWarNet conference. While we havent been in many sessions, we did get to sit in on LTG Sorensons lunch…
When is an Airport Not an Airport?
When its a mall, a kennel, a wireless hotspot, or a restaurant. Here at the 50th AAAE Northeast Chapter meeting the session I was most looking forward to was…
Scrum Journal: Introducing Scrum with a new client
One of the things we take pride in here at OpenSource Connections is what we like to call the OpenApproach. The OpenApproach is our implementation of best practices for…
Designing and Building an Environmentally Responsible Data Center
A new buzz word, “Green”, is on everyones tongue recently, which is the result of a growing trend all over the world. For years groups like Clean Air Watch…
Google: More Services, More Problems
Google came out with Street View which allows people to view a real image of the street address they are getting directions for on Google Maps. This is not…
Rails vs. Django: a Beginners Point of View
For an agile web developer two frameworks are available for quick and easy deployment of a new website: Ruby on Rails for the Ruby fans and Django for the…
3 Flaws in the Government RFP Process
Ive recently discovered Blair Ennss Win Without Pitching website (thanks to David Robinson of Birch Studio Graphics for pointing me to the fantastic FunctionFox seminar). The main theme of…