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Avo Reid on CTO: How many lives can VB6 have?
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Avo Reid on CTO. Entrepreneurship - “You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.” - Reid Hoffman. Friday, January 25, 2013. How many lives can VB6 have? The “It Just Works”. What's even stranger is that many third party components that developers used to make their applications richer and easier to use are no longer available or supported. Forget the VB6 cult perspective I would venture to bet that any application currently in VB6 is running into issues on several fronts. First...
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Avo Reid on CTO: Looking Back...BP Oil Spill and Mobile Devices
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Avo Reid on CTO. Entrepreneurship - “You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.” - Reid Hoffman. Friday, January 7, 2011. Looking Back.BP Oil Spill and Mobile Devices. The BP Oil Spill is a disaster of epic proportions. Responding to the disaster has required innovative minds to use all available technology to craft quick and effective solutions. It's interesting to note some of the solutions that have been crafted using mobile technology. Oil Spill Crisis Map. These applications ...
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Avo Reid on CTO: Scrum it's not a Fish it's a process.
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Avo Reid on CTO. Entrepreneurship - “You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.” - Reid Hoffman. Thursday, June 28, 2007. Scrum it's not a Fish it's a process. Our Best Practice du. Is Scrum lightly sauteed served over a bed of TFS. Scrum succeeds where other development methodologies fail because it is light weight yet rigid. Scrum defines a set of simple, common sense phases and ensures each phase is successful by declaring immutable laws for each phase. Determined period of tim...
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Avo Reid on CTO: Scrum and the Customer
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Avo Reid on CTO. Entrepreneurship - “You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.” - Reid Hoffman. Wednesday, August 15, 2007. Scrum and the Customer. In the case where you have 2000 customers, fixing the bug and derailing the development cycle for the 1999 customers who haven't complained about it doesn't make sense. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow me on Twitter. Follow me on Twitter. Like me on Facebook. Like me on Facebook. Follow me on Google. Follow me on Google.
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Avo Reid on CTO: Moving Legacy Applications to the Cloud - Transposition versus Rewrite
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Avo Reid on CTO. Entrepreneurship - “You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.” - Reid Hoffman. Wednesday, September 25, 2013. Moving Legacy Applications to the Cloud - Transposition versus Rewrite. There are two options that are worth considering to address this challenge, neither of which requires a rewrite but both can be supported in agile best practices and continuous deployment. Ie does it need the kitchen remodeled? Below is the full transposition process. The first phase ...
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Avo Reid on CTO: Moving Legacy Applications to the Cloud - Hybrid Approach with Virtualization
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Avo Reid on CTO. Entrepreneurship - “You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.” - Reid Hoffman. Thursday, October 10, 2013. Moving Legacy Applications to the Cloud - Hybrid Approach with Virtualization. In my last post, "Moving Legacy Applications to the Cloud - Transposition versus Rewrite". To accomplish the virtualization and streaming functionality we conducted a broad market search for an appropriate technology. I won't go into all the available vendors but we chose tech...
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Avo Reid on CTO: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Resiliency
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Avo Reid on CTO. Entrepreneurship - “You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.” - Reid Hoffman. Wednesday, October 23, 2013. Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Resiliency. 8220; Court disaster long enough and it will accept your proposal. 8221; Mason Cooley. Some objectives for the BCRP we listed in our last planning cycle:. Identify risks, critical production components and the impacts of their failure. Identify personnel that must be notified in the event of an outage.
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Avo Reid on CTO: Look Mom No Coding
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Avo Reid on CTO. Entrepreneurship - “You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.” - Reid Hoffman. Friday, January 18, 2013. Look Mom No Coding. Creating Websites without Coding. There are several sites on the market that enable anyone to create a web site, yes even users that have no idea what HTML is and think java script is a dialog over coffee. Here's a Clipset. The vendor I chose is named Moonfruit. And here is the new site. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Scrum and the Cus...
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Avo Reid on CTO: Knowing When to Pull Your Head Out of the Sand
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Avo Reid on CTO. Entrepreneurship - “You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.” - Reid Hoffman. Thursday, November 29, 2007. Knowing When to Pull Your Head Out of the Sand. To learn more and more about less and less, until eventually we shall know everything about nothing.". Motto of the Bonehead Club of Dallas. No, BM's like to look smart and competent at all times even if the ship is sinking they won't flinch until the water reaches their eyebrows. By joining forces with Time W...
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