October, 2009

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The Most Important Blog Post You'll Ever Read

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Most Important Blog Post You’ll Ever Read by Starbucker on October 25, 2009 … is out there somewhere. You just need to find it. And in a land of over 100 million blogs , how is that possible? And besides, blog posts don’t change lives, right?

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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

Great post by John Shiple. He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. LA CTO Forum Dealmaker Media Digital Family Reunion Startups Uncensored Social Media Club, LA Twiistup Mindshare LA LA Hadoop Meetup Dorkbot Geek Dinners LA Cloud Computing LA Web Application Developers LA PHP Developers

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Links for 2009-10-30 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter. Dramatic, cloudy sunset at Dulles right now as we head to the Bay Area. It's going to be a big E2.0 week. [link] [from [link]. Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun - CNN.com. RT @cheeky_geeky Privacy is dead, & social media hold smoking gun, by Pete Cashmore for CNN [link] < Uncomfortable but true [from [link].

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Do hard things

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Write Your Book; Get Paid Like This

Steve Farber

If you’ve ever had an impulse to write and publish a book, I urge you to act on it. Not because of the money or visibility. But because of the feeling you’ll get when someone, somewhere, reads your book and then sends you an email like this: “Dear Steve, The Radical Leap worked in reverse for me. I quit my job and literally walked out of my 35th floor corner office in downtown and entered the streets of Houston.

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Supertramp Talks Social Media – 30 Years Before It Exists

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Supertramp Talks Social Media – 30 Years Before It Exists by Starbucker on October 11, 2009 This morning, as I was driving back from Starbucks with my morning latte, I had a vision of sorts. I had been thinking a lot about writing another post about Social Media, and wondered where I’d draw my inspiration.

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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. Normally, when I am talking to the founder of any startup trying to figure out what they need to do, one of the things I always try to do is understand their business at its core.

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Links for 2009-10-28 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Pew Study Reports That Internet Users Are Becoming More Status Update-Friendly. Behavior changes: The number of Internet users that update their social status has doubled to 19% [link] [from [link]. JBoss Fellow Bill Burke Discusses REST-*, RESTEasy | Javalobby. RT @indrayam JBoss Fellow Bill Burke Discusses REST-*, RESTEasy | Javalobby [link] [from [link].

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Trust – the key to success

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Best of Application Security (Friday, Oct. 30)

Jeremiah Grossman

Ten of Application Security industry's coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week -- in no particular order. Regularly released until year end. Then the Best of Application Security 2009 will be selected! Detecting Malice eBook Black Box vs White Box. You are doing it wrong. The Barack Obama Donations Site was Hacked…err, no it wasn’t.

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Are ORMs really a thing of the past ?

Ruminations of a Programmer

Stephan Schmidt has blogged on the ORMs being a thing of the past. While he emphasizes on ORMs' performance concerns and dismisses them as leaky abstractions that throw LazyInitializationException , he does not present any concrete alternative. In his concluding section on alternatives he mentions. "What about less boiler plate code due to ORMs? Good DAOs with standard CRUD implementations help there.

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Leadership Means Sitting Tall in the Saddle (WBF, Day 1)

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Leadership Means Sitting Tall in the Saddle (WBF, Day 1) by Starbucker on October 6, 2009 I’m part of the “ Blogger’s Hub &# covering the World Business Forum in New York City, and focus during the morning sessions was on Leadership.

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Social Media for Service Professionals

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). I promised that I would do a follow-up post with some thoughts out of the presentation and providing links. This is that post. Value of Blogging I started the presentation talking about the value of blogging.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Links for 2009-10-27 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Amazon Web Services Blog: Introducing Amazon RDS - The Amazon Relational Database Service. Amazon introduced their relational database cloud service (RDS) today. Great overview by @JeffBarr: [link] [from [link]. The quiet arrival of the SharePoint killer | The Parallax View. The quiet arrival of the SharePoint killer: [link] Interesting analysis of WebEx Connect in particular.

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Keeping the best

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Black Box vs White Box. You are doing it wrong.

Jeremiah Grossman

A longstanding debate in Web application security, heck all of application security, is which software testing methodology is the best -- that is -- the best at finding the most vulnerabilities. Is it black box (aka: vulnerability assessment, dynamic testing, run-time analysis) or white box (aka: source code review, static analysis)? Some advocate that a combination of the two will yield the most comprehensive results.

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Join Your Peers at an Agile Governance or Budgeting Event In October

The Agile Manager

October is normally a heads-down month. In addition to being in the home stretch of meeting our yearly objectives, we must dedicate cycles to shaping, communicating and justifying our plans for next year. October is also a busy month for information sharing. The thoughts and ideas that have percolated through the year reach their maturity about this time, and we want to share them before everybody goes on their winter holidays.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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All Great Content Is An Intersection: The Brian Clark Interview

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full All Great Content Is An Intersection: The Brian Clark Interview by Starbucker on October 18, 2009 Brian Clark is a writer who loves to write about his craft, and it shows. His blog, Copyblogger , is one of the most popular sites on the Internet for writers and fellow bloggers of all stripes.

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Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – Steve Gilison

SoCal CTO

It was great to hear from a long, lost colleague the other day. Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. Of course, I immediately gave him the whole spiel on Visible Networking and Steve was totally game to make our networking visible. Remind me about your background Steve?

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Links for 2009-10-26 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Alcatel-Lucent Dynamic Enterprise. Interesting, my Join the Conversation dialogue is up on Alcatel-Lucent's Dynamic Enterprise site: [link] Please join in. [from [link]. Mozilla tries to build the ultimate in-box: Raindrop | Deep Tech - CNET News. Mozilla attempts to unify social communications with Raindrop: [link] [from [link]. Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : SharePoint 2010.

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Book Review: The Pursuit of Something Better

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Best of Application Security (Friday, Oct. 16)

Jeremiah Grossman

Note: Delayed due to travel requirements. Ten of Application Security industry's coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week -- in no particular order. Regularly released until year end. Then the Best of Application Security 2009 will be selected! OWASP Podcast #44 Interview with Andy Steingruebl Cross-Domain Security (WASC) Web Application Security Statistics 2008 Adoption of X-FRAME-OPTIONS header Integrating WAFs And Vulnerability Scanners Regular Expressio

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The Best Advice I’ve Ever Gotten #1

Steve Farber

During my days at the Tom Peters Company , I once gave an overview to prospective clients of Terry Pearce ‘s program, Leading Out Loud, which was all about authentic leadership communication. (And, to this day, probably the best program of its kind–offered nowadays by BlessingWhite ). Afterward, one of the participants came up to me and said that, while he enjoyed my presentation–that I spoke well, used slides well, was funny and entertaining, etc.–he didn’t think I

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Starbucks and the Product of Last Resort – Fast Always Wins

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Starbucks and the Product of Last Resort – Fast Always Wins by Starbucker on October 3, 2009 This week Starbucks launched its new instant coffee, “VIA&# , to much fanfare. On two consecutive days, I was handed free samples of the product as I purchased my daily lattes.

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Los Angeles Social Media Starters

SoCal CTO

I'm hoping you can help me figure out who I should be connecting with on this. I find myself speaking at various venues in Los Angeles to tell people (most often service providers) about how I've used social media and particularly my blogs, LinkedIn, twitter and topic hubs as part of my own services business. These presentations always inspire people to do more with LinkedIn, create or improve their blog, and maybe do more with Twitter.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Links for 2009-10-23 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Reasons Your SOA Project is Bound to Fail. Yikes. Reasons Your SOA Project is Bound to Fail: [link] It's actually about the resurgence of SOA however. [from [link]. Irreconcilable Differences?: Collaborative Media and the Chain of Command : Gov 2.0 University. Irreconcilable Differences? Collaborative Media and the Chain of Command: [link] #gov20 [from [link].

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DSLs in Action : Sharing the detailed Table of Contents (WIP)

Ruminations of a Programmer

Just wanted to share the detailed Table of Contents of the chapters that have been written so far. Please send in your feedbacks either as comments on this post or in the Author Online Forum. The brief ToC is part of the book home page. Let me know of any other topic that you wopuld like to see as part of this book. Chapter 1. Learning to speak the Language of the Domain 1.1.

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Best of Application Security (Friday, Oct. 9)

Jeremiah Grossman

Ten of Application Security industry's coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week -- in no particular order. Regularly released until year end. Then the Best of Application Security 2009 will be selected! null-prefix certificate for paypal Statistics from 10,000 leaked Hotmail passwords OWASP Interview with Andy Steingruebl Web Application Security Scanner Evaluation Criteria Version 1.0 All about Website Password Policies 9 Ways to Improve Application Securi