http://www.fredberinger.com Software Development, Software Testing, Productivity and ... Life ! Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:40:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm done reading the revised version of The Long Tail: Why the future of business is selling less of more by Chris Anderson. The long tail term was coined by Anderson in an article he wrote for Wired in 2004. In his book, he explains that we've been moving away ... http://www.fredberinger.com/the-long-tail-of-bugs-should-we-revisit-it/ I’ve started my career as a typical Software Engineer, messing up with C++ and Java code on B2B software (good time !). During that same time, I had the opportunity to see Lou Gerstner on stage as he was visiting our IBM campus. It was right in the middle of ... http://www.fredberinger.com/learn-to-manage-your-emotional-bank-accounts-and-build-trust/ Almost a year ago (wow, times really fly !) I've shared with you an email management system I was starting to use. During this year, I've shared this system with as many people as possible as I think it is really excellent. I don't see myself today not using it ... http://www.fredberinger.com/email-management-pifem-is-a-clear-winner/ Damn ! I just realized that my latest article is almost 1 month old ! This is unacceptable for my trusted readers and as I spend a night in London I decided to share one of my latest read. I did read during the past months but for once, I ... http://www.fredberinger.com/behind-the-cloud/ Following my article on high performance at massive scale, I've started to get really interested in the type of distributed databases the big web players are using to handle current and future volume of data. Some of the products developed in my current organization have to cope with large amount ... http://www.fredberinger.com/musings-on-nosql/ The European Commission has started to listen to Oracle argument for its planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems. All eyes will be on Sun's MySQL business unit as the talk held last month ended up in an impasse as the EC is concerned that the acquisition will seriously reduce competition in ... http://www.fredberinger.com/oracle-sun-hearing-starts-today-while-sun-ships-new-java-ee-version/ "Oh, and by the way we're launching our own programming language ..." This is the latest news coming from Google today after a tornado of announcement last week: Acquisition of Admob and Gizmo5, new personal dashboards, free WiFi in US airport during holidays (Hey, Yahoo gives free Wifi too !), ... http://www.fredberinger.com/google-launches-an-open-source-programming-language/ Performance and scalability are high on the list of top requirement from the customer we deal with. The largest financial institution use our products at a global scale with access through the web. They expect low latency and of course a solution that can cope with future volume of utilization. There ... http://www.fredberinger.com/high-performance-at-massive-scale-lessons-learned-at-facebook/ GTAC 2009 is over. Hail to GTAC 2010 (I'm hearing Hyderabad, India ... hint hint !). Let me tell you that GTAC 2009 was quite a ride for me (and for most participant I would say) and one of the best conference I've ever attended. Ok the best one. There, ... http://www.fredberinger.com/gtac-2009-field-report/ Forrester, has just published a very interesting study about what they think are the 15 technology trends to follow in the future: The top 15 technology trends EA should watch. Although the term is not mentioned in the report, there is a lot of concepts related to Enterprise 2.0. This ... http://www.fredberinger.com/15-technology-trends-to-watch-for-enterprise-2-0/