
Hackathons. Not exactly Hunger Games.
When I read this Alicia Liu post a couple of weeks ago, I liked her assessment of vendor sponsored hackathons Corporate-sponsored hackathons are all-win for the sponsoring company. They get a big influx of fresh ideas, and developers working themselves to illness (not quite death, but a diet of soda and pizza, plus sleep deprivation […]

The Chaos of BYOW (Bring Your Own Wi-Fi)
It all started as an innocent joke: Robert Scoble was sitting in the front row @ Apple’s WWDC conference while I was following the tweetstream from home. Little did we know out joke would soon turn serious, as Steve Job’s keynote demo crashed…

Google I/O is the new Java One. Thoughts on Developer Conferences and Industry Analysts
Just in case you didn’t get the memo, and following yesterday’s post about the new business realities for industry analysts, I thought it was worth talking to a convergence RedMonk has long championed, and how it affects my sector. For many years things were simple. JavaOne was the most important conference of the year. Sun […]