Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
That's right. As stated by a recent article in the UK's Guardian web site, technology has made it so easy for people to waste time that many doctors and researchers believe procrastination should be treated as a serious medical condition:
Time-wasting is not just an irritating habit. It is an affliction ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
An acquaintance of mine from Santo Domingo recently came to RIT to pursue his masters degree in telecommunications engineering. Just as it happened to me during my first day of class, one of his professors outlined how he would be using Turnitin.com to deter plagiarism and crosscheck all papers submitted. ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
The folks at the Mozilla Foundation, the organization behind the increasingly popular Firefox web browser, decided they would release the latest version of their hot application with an interesting goal in mind: break the world record for most downloads ever for any application in a day. Incredibly, before the 24-hour ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
According to Information Technology Project Management - Providing Measurable Organizational Value, by author Jack T. Marchewka, one of the many factors impairing IT projects is unrealistic expectations. I absolutely agree with this proposition. A project manager must be particularly adept at aligning customers' anticipation with a realistic prospect of the ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Have you ever done any sort of enterprise software development? If you have, chances are you felt like this many times (click on the picture for a bigger resolution):
Source: Hazelcast
Did I strike a chord? I kind of miss those days. The days when my manager used to walk into my ...
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