I went to LuceneRevolution to test out my assertion that Search is the dominant metaphor for working with Big Data and based on the conversations that I had, that assertion holds water. As Grant Ingersoll pointed out in his keynote, the basic plumbing required for Big Data: storage, distributed processing, cheap price tag, have been [...]
The United States government procures most of its goods and services through competitive bidding. The notices of its requirements are posted on a centralized website called FedBizOpps, www.fbo.gov. Contracting officers and liaisons of government agencies to private sector providers recite from rote the message that everyone should search for opportunities on FedBizOpps. Yet, the system [...]
After a couple of exhausting days at HIMSS last week, where I was overwhelmed both by being a first time visitor to the glitz of Las Vegas and the sheer size of the HIMSS exhibit hall, I’ve come to the conclusion that HealthIT is currently running on two separate parallel tracks. The first track is [...]
As the “father of the Internet,” Tim Berners-Lee, got onto a plane to head to the burgeoning tech center of Tyler, Texas (all sarcasm intended), he must have wondered how he found himself in this position. Berners-Lee is testifying at a court case of a patent holder who is suing Google, Amazon, and others regarding [...]
I just came back from the 2011 DI2E conference in Dallas, Texas and certainly left with a lot of impressions. I want to state up front that my impressions were very positive about the state of U.S. intelligence activities. We’ve come a long way since we first started inserting Green Berets into Afghanistan. Whereas we [...]
In response to: ceo friday why we don’t hire net programmers I’m sure there are a slew of witty responses in this rebuttal to a CEO writing this kind of article. However, I’d rather focus on the real issue at hand. It sounds like the CEO, David Barnett, took a chapter out of an idiots-guide-to-blogging [...]
We’ve been talking to our customers to understand why they are adopting Solr. Is it because it’s a great product from the Apache Software Foundation? Is it because Lucene has a cute naming story? Is it because of Solr’s compelling feature set, ease of use, and great admin interface? Unfortunately, it’s none of those reasons. [...]
Agile teams should be based on talented development staff with multi disclipinary skill sets. This allows team members to easily trade tasks and keep the iteration moving forward. As a consultant, I have seen and worked in many environments where development staff are very silo’d in their skill sets. In most cases they are very [...]
