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Authentication as a Service:  Slow Progress, But Are We There Yet?

Authentication as a Service: Slow Progress, But Are We There Yet?

By Bob Warfield on July 14, 2014

Authentication as a Service solves a problem every Cloud Developer, mobile or desktop, has to solve.  As one player in the space, AuthRocket, puts it: Do you really want to write code for users, forgotten passwords, permissions, and admin panels again? To that I would add, “Do you really want to have to be a world class […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Cognito, Authentication, bootstrapping, Cloud, google, mobile, platforms, SaaS, service, Software development

How Moore’s Law Put Apple in the Driver’s Seat and Cost Steve Ballmer His Job

How Moore’s Law Put Apple in the Driver’s Seat and Cost Steve Ballmer His Job

By Bob Warfield on January 24, 2014

With the Mac’s 30th anniversary, lots of folks are writing all sorts of articles about it, so I thought it only fitting to bring up my own thoughts on what happened and how Apple got control away from Microsoft.  It’s not a theory I have seen anywhere else, but it’s the one that makes the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, moore's law, multicore, platforms, Software development, strategy

Big Data is a Small Market Compared to Suburban Data

Big Data is a Small Market Compared to Suburban Data

By Bob Warfield on February 4, 2013

Big Data is all the rage, and seem to be one of the prime targets for new entrepreneurial ventures since VC-dom started to move from Consumer Internet to Enterprise recently.  Yet, I remain skeptical about Big Data for a variety of reasons.  As I’ve noted before, it seems to be a premature optimization for most companies.  That post […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Big Data, Cloud, data center, enterprise software, multicore, NoSQL, Object database, platforms, SaaS, service, Suburban Data | 2 Responses

From Dreamliner to Nightmare

From Dreamliner to Nightmare

By Jeff Nolan on January 17, 2013

Complex systems fail in complex ways not anticipated by engineers. You can over-engineer the systems, test every imaginable scenario, build redundant system coverage, test again. and you can still fail.   Boeing’s nightmare is just beginning, their latest generation airplane, the 787 Dreamliner, has been grounded because of fire danger in the lithium ion batteries […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged 787 Dreamliner, Boeing, Interesting Stuff, platforms, systems

Saw the Microsoft Surface Tablet and Liked It

Saw the Microsoft Surface Tablet and Liked It

By Bob Warfield on November 26, 2012

I was at Houston’s Galleria mall during the Thanksgiving weekend and got a chance to spend some time in both the Microsoft and Apple stores there.  I had read a few articles praising the device, such as Jeff Atwood’s piece (which fairly gushes), but was skeptical.  I’m not at all an Apple Fan Boy nor […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Microsoft Surface, mobile, platforms, strategy, user interface

The Two Most Desirable Features of a Platform as a Service

The Two Most Desirable Features of a Platform as a Service

By Bob Warfield on July 5, 2011

Big Data? Multitenancy? Uber DB scaling? Mad Hadoopishness? Faster app development? Universal Social Connectivity? Not so much.  Some platform or other claims all of those things, but the two most desirable features of a PaaS appear to be revenue generation and commodity pricing, not necessarily in that order. Let me first say that I’ve come […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Big Data, bootstrapping, Cloud, Cloud Computing, PaaS, platforms, SaaS, venture

Conspiracy Theory: the Vista-ization of Windows 7 has Started…

Conspiracy Theory: the Vista-ization of Windows 7 has Started…

By Zoli Erdos on May 8, 2011

Three years ago I wrote: Windows Seven in 2010. Does Anyone Still Care? I simply don’t get it: Vista is barely out, nobody seems to like it, CIO’s refuse to upgrade, analyst firms tell them to wait, individual users who tried it switch back to XP, others time their new PC purchase so they can […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Just for fun, microsoft, platforms, rant, vista, win7, windows, Windows 7 | 5 Responses

Remember HP’s New Wave?  Here We Go Again!

Remember HP’s New Wave? Here We Go Again!

By Bob Warfield on February 15, 2011

Sam Diaz has gotten clarification on the future of Windows in the light of their Web OS announcements.  It should come as no surprise that Windows isn’t going anywhere, and certainly won’t be replaced by Web OS any time soon.  Instead, HP is saying: HP will integrate the WebOS experience into Windows, but not through […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Borland, Hewlett-Packard, microsoft, Microsoft Windows, mobile, Nokia, Operating system, platforms, webos

Scoble Discovers Developers are Schizo About New Platforms

Scoble Discovers Developers are Schizo About New Platforms

By Bob Warfield on February 13, 2011

I just listened to Scoble’s bar interview of @longview (Nick Long) and @renatto (Paul Robinett), two Dreamworks developers who are building a mobile app of their own.  They’re talking about the Mobile World, and there are some great sound bites coming from the interview.  BTW, the Cinchcast tool he used to do the interview was pretty […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged android, apple, iPhone, ipod, platforms, Robert Scoble, scobleizer, Software development, strategy

Forget SaaS vs On-Prem, Here are 8 Application Styles to Consider

Forget SaaS vs On-Prem, Here are 8 Application Styles to Consider

By Bob Warfield on November 4, 2010

The EI discussion about Microsoft’s poor handling of Silverlight brought out the different viewpoints swinging. The “RIA was never a good idea” camp was in full force as was the “this confirms everything about HTML5″ and the “Flash is on the same train as Silverlight” camps. I don’t see these developments nor the evolution of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged platforms, Software development, user interface | 1 Response

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