The United States Marines today announce a ban on Twitter, Facebook and several other Social Media sites. This ban is to be in force for 1 year and it is being done because “These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries.”
No doubt that for the Marines themselves and their families this is a very disappointing thing.
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Marines ban Social Media
Aug 4
SOA… Dead???… Really???…
Aug 1
“SOA is Dead; Long Live Services,” proclaimed Amy Thomas Manes on January 5th, 2009.
When I read Ms Manes’ post, I felt like the person standing on the sidewalk in a movie. The camera is focused on me and someone (SOA) steps out into the street. From the side of the screen, off-camera, a bus comes careening past and the person that stepped into the street is hit and taken completely out of camera and I’m left standing with my jaw on my knees.
Moving to WordPress
Jun 15
The last few weeks have been more than a little interesting. I have spent a lot of time researching content management systems since I first posted on Joomla a few months back. I was having a lot of trouble getting my blog to look and work the way that I wanted it to and I [...]
A little quiet
Jun 7
Things have been a little quiet on my blog for the last month or so. There area couple of reasons for that. First, I recently left my job at Earthlink and have been engaged in a new venture that has had me somewhat distracted. Second, I have been investigating changing the platform that I use [...]
In 1999 Progress held a user conference in Boston where they showed the any-any-any model. Progress was going to become open. You could connect any client on any platform to any database using a Progress AppServer to handle your business logic. This was a really good idea. The preceding 10 years had taught me that Progress was an outstanding platform for writing the business logic that controlled your application and ensured your data integrity. I was sold.
I recently decided to set up a web site for my family. We are distributed all around the world and while there are plenty of photo-sharing places out there, I wanted more than that. I wanted to create a site that is sort of like a blog, but where everyone in the family could share the media, all in my immediate family could contribute, and the extended family and our friends could get at the site for information. In many ways, I want to create a home newspaper. This is more about a content management system than it is about …
The cost of it
Mar 4
In looking at these new projects, cost is a serious concern. I need to be able to develop these applications with very low initial and annual maintenance costs. This needs to be balanced with the need to provide the enterprise with a stable, high-performance, enterprise-class solution. The cost of the software that I use to build the applications is thus a serious concern.
The start of something new
Feb 22
This blog is the start of something new. Over the course of this blog I will be endeavoring to share some of my experiences in the software development business with those who are interested. I hope that it can be of use to you. If you find the information interesting or useful, please feel free to leave a comment. If you find that you disagree with me, please share your feedback. Learning is a two-way street and I know that I can learn from you too.
Twitter and Facebook face the wrath…
Aug 7
Posted by Bruce Gruenbaum in Commentary, Social Media | No Comments
Like many others, I woke up yesterday morning to find Twitter down. While I was trying to check Twitter, my wife was trying to get at her Facebook page and was surprised at how slow it was. “The internet is slow!” she exclaimed. A few minutes later I caught the report on the fact that Twitter had experienced a denial of service attack. Based on today’s reports, it appears that the denial of service attack was a Russian attack on a Georgian citizen who had made politically charged comments about the Russo-Georgian conflict last year. Organizations around the world see social media as the future of customer growth and they are spending large sums of money on very expensive people to advance their social web marketing agendas, and therein lies the risk…
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