The tech industry is optimizing everything around us, disrupting every aspect of social, business or whatsoever. The thought everything will be easier is just so tempting to everybody remotely involved in anything remotely digital. And that’s why so many app-developers, start-ups, evangelists feel inspired by the opportunity. Every new idea needs to be ground breaking, revolutionizing. And that’s why that concept of “disruptive” became so popular, even while interpreted fundamentally wrong by this group of technologists. Clayton M. Christensen who coined the term, explored development of disk drives and described generational change in the technology, each disrupting the market of the previous generation.
However, none of the following generations of disk drives was designed as “disruptive“, but to have advantages over the previous one. (more…)
Category: Internet & Culture
Category: Internet & Cloud. This brand new thing: Internet & Cloud. Even though the technology is around for way more than 30 years, it is a never drying source of news and discoveries. The new channel of communication created a entirely new culture and created new businesses, fueling innovation and creativity.
All those things that clearly relate to something ‘new media’, items and thoughts that would not have been possible without the internet, will go here.
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Don't aim for disruptive
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15 years neumeier.org
neumeier.org is 15 years old today.
Domain Name:NEUMEIER.ORG Domain ID: D19886705-LROR Creation Date: 2000-02-15T13:24:23Z
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Everybody should code.
Just read a blog that made quite an argument against the education of coding. The core argument cited Henry Ford with hist famous saying, if he had listened to his customers, he should have built a faster horse. The derivation in this argument is, that with everybody able to code we, as an economy, are continuing what we are doing, only faster, but in reality need a car.
However, the derivation is based on the assumption code was for apps alone. Using Henry Fords citation as an argument against learning to code, is like saying “Education in engineering is wrong because it will just produce more engineers doing their engineering thing”.
While it is true, not everybody needs to be an software engineer, not everybody needs to be a mechanical engineer, either. Still everybody today taking a drivers test (in Germany, [1]) will have to be prepared to answer fundamential technical questions. These include questions for tires, lighting, breaks, steering, liquids and liquid levels, as well as the meaning of indicator lights. It makes using a car more convenient for the consumer, just as it makes driving a lot safer for the rest of all road users.
Today, all work disciplines are confronted with computers in one or another way. Code is the integral ingrediant that makes them work. In computer engineering, there are different levels of code, that are more or less abstract to the bare machines. Just above machine language, patterns emerge that repeat all across all applications one can think of. May it be loops, conditions, basic algorithms to bother the comparison once again, are the equivalent basics of steering, liquids and breaks.
A basic understanding of how these machines work should be as fundamential as the ability to read, write and math, without which the car wouldn’t exist. It will allow us as an economy to built the next “car”.
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Docker 1.5 released
Docker 1.5 released on 10 February 2015. New features contain IPv6 support, read-only containers, stats, “named Dockerfiles”.via Docker Blog.
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Software Defined Networks
For the most of my career I spent time configuring TCP stacks, IP ACLs, firewall rules and layer2 links. I worked with devices of multiple vendors, pulled together hubs, switches, routers and packet filters, used hardware and software tools to find why an application won’t connect to a remore peer. For the most time. Still, these days are over, since I’ve choosen a career working with customers a few years back. And while the interesst in techology is still there, the desire to dive into cabling and repetitive flipping switches has become very low over the years. Just as everything else in computing has been consumerized by the cloud, the network itself is still manual work (if done properly).
Software-Defined Networks may be here to overcome this perpective.
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Cloud bedeutet Flexibilität
Systemhäuser müssen sich ebenso flexibilisieren, wenn Sie Ihren Kunden das volle Cloudportfolio anbieten wollen.
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Plattform Industrie 4.0 steht vor dem Aus
Plattform Industrie 4.0 steht vor dem Aus.
Reinhard Clemens, CEO von T-Systems: »Im Wesentlichen haben wir nichts hinbekommen [...] «
via elektroniknet.de.
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Samsung warnt.
Samsung warnt: Bitte achten Sie darauf, nichts Privates vor unseren SmartTVs zu erzählen
via netzpolitik.org.
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Data and Goliath
Data and Goliath Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Bruce Schneier wrote a book about Big Data, mass surveilance and the Internet of Things. Schneier talks about how this effects society and what to do about the increasing datarization of everything we’re doing.