Task for 2007: Grow, tear down wisely
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NEW YORK -- The world's largest media companies will grapple in 2007 with the need to invest in ventures for rapid growth while not tearing down their aging business models too quickly.
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One recent Saturday morning, I woke with one seemingly simple thing in mind: cleaning out and organizing the closets in my bedroom. If my closets were a database system, the contents would be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects) of varying sizes with no defining structure â just a dumping ground for stuff. As I began dragging things out of the closet, I found items as varied as a backpack, a pair of old ski gloves, about 10 square feet of foam padding, and pocket change in three different international currencies (anyone need Thai bahts?). Faced with a mound of the messy detritus of my own life, I did what most people would probably do: I went to the store to buy even more stuff to organize the stuff I already had.
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Buy a Dell PC, help plant a tree ... that is, if you care to make a donation.
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The time has come to gulp down the pumpkin pie and before you load up on Turkey, Ham, Roast Beef or a nice Vegetarian cuisine, to consider your goals and objectives for the year. Notice I didn't say resolutions. Of course, if you start off the resolution sentence with "I resolve to..." then that will work just fine along with your goals and objectives. read more
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In a new entry on his blog today, Marco Tabini introduces us to 5 PHP Performance Tips that we "probably don't want to hear".   I thought it might be interesting to write an article about the performance-enhancing tips you probably don't want to hear about - that is, those that are most likely to produce measurable (and durable) results but do require some effort on your part.   His list consists of:  You Don't Need To Plan Ahead In Order To Have A Plan Combat Database Abuse Do You Really Need A Database Anyway? Scale Horizontally Refactor To Scale Vertically  For each, he explains the title and gives a bit of validation to the point. There's some great mentions of tools that you can use to help accomplish them too - a profiler, the Lucene and Xapian full-text databases, and Lustre.
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There is an interesting post on OnLamp.com that mentions the search for a good wiki system. Read the post to find out why the author thinks that the wiki world "needs the kind of vision that will make the product more accessible, more polished, less prone to abandonment or neglect...", and the several comments that follow.
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With the New Year likely to perpetuate many of 2007's trends, the keys are caution and patience
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Fighting clutter? Here's how to clear it out.
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What the Redskins need most is the time to get better by inches, to improve the old-fashioned way -- by working hard and pulling together.
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It was a good year for you. But do some homework before asking for a raise.
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We and our machines are about to go through a rocky transition as the machines get smarter and take over more tasks.
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Overall, the industry did several things right and wrong this year. But here's what Network World readers, columnists, bloggers and testers say are the absolute smartest and dumbest moves of 2007 -- and why they matter.
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Forget about 'upgrading.' Blowing away everything on each machine and beginning from the ground up results in a faster, more stable install.
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A big company needs some big ideas in order to grow bigger.
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How to avoid a post-holiday meltdown and keep momentum going for customers and employees.
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Satellite images of the world in 2007
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The predictable flood of 2008 IT prognostications has rolled in over the past few weeks, and we have listened to analysts, vendors, consultants, and our geek friends, accepting some forecasts and rejecting others. Turns out we did pretty well culling the wheat from the chaff last year and gazing ahead, though maybe we weren&#39;t bold enough in our declarations. So this year, we&#39;ll stretch a little and predict: