This parable is an old one. I told this last week to one of my team members at work and wanted to find the original. Since this is an old parable, I found different versions of this story over the Internet. In some versions the story revolves around a broken down ship, while in others a large machine in a factory. The version I'm quoting below is what I remember reading ages ago. It's 2019. I'm turning 40 this year. The first time someone paid me money to write code was back in early 2003. This means that my career also turned 16, going on 17 this year. As a senior staff member, I do find myself championing the value of skills and expertise in software engineering, especially to young graduates doing their rotation in my software engineering team. This old parable stuck somewhere in my head all those years ago. I still think it's the best parable told about the value of expertise and staying sharp. I hope it serves someone else as it does me ... A gian
Note: This isn’t a Bitcoin hedging post. In fact, that was the last occurrence of that word in this article. Is the Blockchain hype over? According to this year’s Gartner Hype Cycle , Blockchain has crossed the peak of unrealistic expectations and is now heading towards the trough of disillusionment. This usually means that we’ll stop hearing about Blockchain being the cure for world hunger, and instead will start hearing about real world case studies that demonstrate its use cases. I tend to agree with Gartner’s prediction of Blockchain reaching the plateau of profitability, and therefore wider adoption in the enterprise within the next 5 years . Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies - July 2017 Blockchain for Business? Fundamentally, Blockchain emerged from business principles that has been around since humans started trading with each other. We have incrementally digitised parts of this process over the past century. However, this digitisation proces
If you are a regular reader, you would know about the Southwest auto check-in mashup and how Southwest decided to use a 'cease and desist' type threat to get it out of circulation. The threat worked, mainly because WSO 2 is a reputed company and they were running the mashup as a 'demo'. Not to make money from it. But I say they can't prevent people running it from their personal computers. Here's a little how-to. Download the Free and Open Source WSO 2 Mashup Server (A Windows installer and a .zip file are available. It's a Java program so you need a Java version 1.5 or higher installed too) Install it and run the server as described in the user guide Goto https://localhost:7443/ and give a username for the admin user Download the Southwest Auto Check-in Mashup and extract the zip You will have 2 . js files ( alertme . js and southwestAutoCheckin . js ) and a folder named southwestAutoCheckin .resources Copy those files and folder to [your-
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