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At the annual Microsoft Ignite Conference in Atlanta earlier this week, we announced many new updates and improvements to Office 365 , designed to help IT professionals drive digital transformation within their organizations, en…

Five Immutable Principles of Project Success and Project Failure

I saw a blog post about the Top 5 Reasons Your Project Fails recently. They were all good reasons, but those reasons were symptoms, not causes. We seem to always identify the symptoms, but until we fix the cause of failure, thos…

This quote is part of my tech quote series from Java One / Open World 2016. Quote: Using an app server does not mean you build a monolith. Mark Little Red Hat. Lead JBoss Technical Direction / Research Develeopment. @nmcl   Expla…

Error'd: Workweek Hustle Shuffle

While my co-worker JR may have gotten the most steps, I still came out on top!   "Not sure if I'm interested in their audience targeting rule or not," writes Tony P.   Paul N. wrote, "It's nice …

Boost seller productivity with Skype for Business and Salesforce

Amidst all the disruption that enterprises are experiencing today, one thing has remained constant—real-time communications are still fundamental to workplace productivity. By embedding real-time communications into applications,…

The Hershey Company: where collaboration and productivity are a recipe for goodness

Digital transformation: one cloud Collaboration intelligence Marketing profile Today’s Microsoft Office 365 post was written by Carlos Amesquita, chief information officer at The Hershey Company. I h…

Quote of the Day

Never attribute to malevolence what is explicable by incompetence. - Robert J Halon When we hear all the bad things that go  wrong with projects. The misuse and abuse of data, people, tools, and processes, I get a smile when …

9 ways good content marketing helps your business grow

Small businesses tend to be conservative about marketing, both in terms of what they’ll try and what they’ll spend. This is often in their best interest – they have limited budgets and lean staffs. They don’t have a lot of resou…

Editor's Soapbox: Programming is Hard

A bit ago, I popped into an “Explain Like I’m 5” thread to give my version of the differences between C, C++, Objective-C and C# . In true Reddit fashion, I had the requisite “no five year old could understand this” comments and…

I recently attended an event at which Bosch and SAP announced a major partnership to more closely align their respective cloud and software expertise around the industrial internet of things. This partnership underlines the fact…

Containerizing an application for the cloud: A journey of settings, state, and security.

Red Hat Developers and author N. Harrison Ripps have just begun releasing a ten-part series in which Harrison describes the process of deploying an application using containers into a clustered environment on the cloud. Using …

Estimating Resources

There's a never-ending opportunity to learn how to estimate in the presence of uncertainty. Here's some resources for informing that learning process.  When you hear that estimates are a waste (we'd rather be codin…

Oracle Public Cloud and Kafka – Events powering the cloud – The Oracle PaaS Cloud Event BusHub

Events are quite relevant in modern computer architecture. At various levels of the stack. Events can represent various things – from IoT based measurements and logistical updates to web site activities and business transactions …

With estimates showing that  over 600,000 employees annually sustain an injury at work and over 1.2 million suffer a work-related illness  just in Britain, workplace injuries remain a top concern for many firms. In the US, busi…

Application Container Cloud and Multi Tenant Services – Oracle embracing 3rd party technologies and open source projects

The Oracle PaaS cloud is turning into the next generation application server platform. More specifically: Oracle has announced the roadmap for the Application Container Cloud Service (not to be confused with the plain Container C…

CodeSOD: Every Possible Case

From reader Frank comes this delightful Java-flavored head-scratcher: This is from the main request-handling method for a webservice. Counting all of its interesting features is left as an exercise for the reader, but the re…