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The Legacy of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs passed away yesterday. There are probably few people in at least the western world who don’t know that. Like many thousand of other bloggers, I’m left pondering the Jobs legacy. Like many of those thousands of bloggers, much…
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Stuck in a Rut
Forbes has a series of interesting articles (part 1 here, part 2 here, and more to come) on the potential value of Enterprise Architecture(EA), written by Dan Woods, of their CIO Central group. He begins the series by citing Lens…
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What Corporate IT Can Learn from Apple
There’s been an interesting couple of articles in the past week about Apple that hold some interesting lessons for those of us doing IT in a corporate setting. I’ll take the last first, a story in the Wall Street Journal…
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The User/Programmer Barrier
I do some web site management on the side, mostly for my church, whose site I recently inherited. I was asking one of the ministry leaders for content for an extremely outdated portion of the site. Her response was one…
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Are CIO’s Really IT Smart?
I have to start by expressing my continuing pleasure at the reporting of the Wall Street Journal. We’ve only been subscribing since the beginning of the school year, but since that time there have been a number of great articles…
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Integration Leads to Improvement
The Wall Street Journal recently ran a report on medical care and the sorts of innovations that are being proposed, and in many cases, tried, in the interest of improving care and reducing costs. I recommend most of the articles,…
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Quality, Validation, and SDLCs
Discussion of software development methodologies – which is really the GMP, Quality approach, Waterfall or Agile? Many QA people will tell you that you need to follow some form of Waterfall method. Write up requirements, then a functional specification, then…
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IT Catches On
During a discussion around the future of LIMS over at LinkedIn, one poster suggested that the term “WebLIMS” be stricken from our vocabulary. I tend to agree, for the reasons specified. Perhaps we should start a list like the one…
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LIMS is Dead! Long live LIMS!
During a discussion around the future of LIMS over at LinkedIn, one poster suggested that the term “WebLIMS” be stricken from our vocabulary. I tend to agree, for the reasons specified. Perhaps we should start a list like the one…
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Buy or Build?
Having just finished phase I of my eResume website, I was given cause to ponder the debate that you will hear around IT systems in most industries, but in particular in the pharmaceutical business. Do you buy a solution, or…