http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog IT@Intel Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:05:00 GMT Clearspace 2.5.9 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2008-11-13T18:05:00Z http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/11/13/interested-in-a-job-at-a-large-company-as-a-software-developer Do you have the right skills to speak the right speak and do the right things? Are you really ready to work in a large company?   Recently I've had the opportunity to speak with some college graduates and ask them about different aspects of their software_development Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:05:01 GMT john.e.simpson@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/11/13/interested-in-a-job-at-a-large-company-as-a-software-developer 2008-11-13T18:05:01Z 1 year, 2 weeks ago 4 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/interested-in-a-job-at-a-large-company-as-a-software-developer http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=11700 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/08/21/community-building-around-software-developers The early morning dew glistens as the light of dawn wakens the cactus blossoms of the Arizona desert. Of course, at this time of the year, it never gets cool enough for dew to build or blossoms to go to sleep. During the late summer there are winds that social_media software_development Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:54:53 GMT john.e.simpson@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/08/21/community-building-around-software-developers 2008-08-21T13:54:53Z 1 year, 3 months ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/community-building-around-software-developers http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=11452 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/06/20/how-do-you-measure-data-quality-in-your-application-inventory It is vitally important to give data consumers an indicator of the quality of your information. This helps to build a trust in the completeness and review state related to what they are consuming. What we have implemented is real-time, includes embedded value software_development application_inventory cost_savings data_quality Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:28:22 GMT john.e.simpson@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/06/20/how-do-you-measure-data-quality-in-your-application-inventory 2008-06-20T18:28:22Z 1 year, 5 months ago 2 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/how-do-you-measure-data-quality-in-your-application-inventory http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=11292 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/05/02/a-different-way-to-create-and-execute-applications Wouldn't it be great if we could buy an application and not have to worry about whether it was designed to run on Windows XP, Windows Vista, MAC OS X or some flavor of linux?   How about when you buy a personal computer you don't have to make a client_architecture software_development virtualization alternate_compute_models Fri, 02 May 2008 17:05:32 GMT tom.a.mant@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/05/02/a-different-way-to-create-and-execute-applications 2008-05-02T17:05:32Z 1 year, 7 months ago 3 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/a-different-way-to-create-and-execute-applications http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=11123 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/03/19/application-inventory-the-start-of-data-sustainability Up to this point I have covered Application inventory as a cost savings initiative followed by a discussion of Application inventory starts with a definition , and finally Application inventory, what do you capture?   Following the natural value software_development application_inventory cost_savings Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:17:40 GMT john.e.simpson@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/03/19/application-inventory-the-start-of-data-sustainability 2008-03-19T15:17:40Z 1 year, 8 months ago 3 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/application-inventory-the-start-of-data-sustainability http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=10988 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/03/11/application-streaming-why-bother Some general thoughts and ramblings on application streaming - where it is better than web applications and where it might not be.   Application streaming is an interesting technology - you can create a client rich application with sophisticated client client_architecture client _management software_development streaming Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:19:14 GMT tom.a.mant@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/03/11/application-streaming-why-bother 2008-03-11T21:19:14Z 1 year, 8 months ago 5 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/application-streaming-why-bother http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=10973 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/02/21/application-inventory-what-do-you-capture Up to this point I have covered Application inventory as a cost savings initiative followed by a discussion of Application inventory starts with a definition .   In our specific implementation, we started with a base set of attributes. Some of value software_development application_inventory cost_savings Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:28:19 GMT john.e.simpson@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/02/21/application-inventory-what-do-you-capture 2008-02-21T22:28:19Z 1 year, 9 months ago 1 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/application-inventory-what-do-you-capture http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=10923 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/02/13/application-inventory-starts-with-a-definition Every software project I have worked on always started with some form of conflict and complicated interactions.  This usually resolved itself through the use of a definition regarding roles and responsibilities.  That definition kept people on the same value software_development application_inventory cost_savings Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:19:07 GMT john.e.simpson@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/02/13/application-inventory-starts-with-a-definition 2008-02-13T21:19:07Z 1 year, 9 months ago 4 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/application-inventory-starts-with-a-definition http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=10905 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/02/04/application-inventory-as-a-cost-savings-initiative Fourteen months ago my (new) manager approached me with a unique problem. It was discovered that we did a very poor job of keeping track of the applications (software) that we build and/or install within our enterprise environment. This lack of tracking value software_development application_inventory cost_savings Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:30:33 GMT john.e.simpson@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/02/04/application-inventory-as-a-cost-savings-initiative 2008-02-04T18:30:33Z 1 year, 9 months ago 4 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/application-inventory-as-a-cost-savings-initiative http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=10879 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/01/31/application-streaming-why-bother-1st-installment I've been working with application streaming for the past year or so and often when I go to other groups within Intel to try and convince them that streaming is the way to go - they ask me - why bother? They reason that they are moving more and more to application_streaming software_development Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:17:53 GMT tom.a.mant@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/01/31/application-streaming-why-bother-1st-installment 2008-01-31T16:17:53Z 1 year, 10 months ago 2 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/application-streaming-why-bother-1st-installment http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=10876 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/01/28/what-is-the-future-of-software-development-in-large-companies For decades there had been a simple model in place when it came to consuming software within large companies. It had only two branches, one involved creating something new while the other installation and configuration. Simply stated: "Make versus Buy." sdlc virtualization software_development Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:16:48 GMT john.e.simpson@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/01/28/what-is-the-future-of-software-development-in-large-companies 2008-01-28T15:16:48Z 1 year, 10 months ago 1 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/what-is-the-future-of-software-development-in-large-companies http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=10860