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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

You Have to Have an Overseas Dev Team to Scale? Baloney!

You Have to Have an Overseas Dev Team to Scale? Baloney!

By Bob Warfield on September 9, 2013

ba·lo·ney 2 also bo·lo·ney (b -l n ) Slang. n. Nonsense. interj. Used to express disagreement or exasperation. Recently, I was doing something on LinkedIn, and it asked me to endorse various people’s skills like it often does.  One face in particular popped out at me:  Anders Hejlsberg.  I’ve known Anders for many years, so […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Borland, engineering, J&Bshow, linkedin, offshore, Software development, strategy | 3 Responses

How Many Software Companies Monitor Their Software as Well as Tesla Monitors its Cars?

How Many Software Companies Monitor Their Software as Well as Tesla Monitors its Cars?

By Bob Warfield on February 15, 2013

The unfolding story of how the New York Times’ negative review of the Tesla Model S may have actually been faked is a cautionary tale for software vendors.  Basically, there is enough instrumentation and feedback built into the Tesla S that Elon Musk was able to “shred” the review, as Dan Frommer writes.  The graphical […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, customer service, Software development, strategy, user interface | 1 Response

Gaining the Wisdom of Crowds in a Bootstrapped SaaS Company

Gaining the Wisdom of Crowds in a Bootstrapped SaaS Company

By Bob Warfield on November 19, 2012

When you’re bootstrapping a small company, sometimes it’s hard to do the things larger organizations take for granted, like making sure you’re listening well enough to your customers.  On the other hand, you can take advantage of your nimble nature and the availability of some great technology to do some things that even a lot […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged bootstrapping, customer service, Google Analytics, SaaS, software as a service, Software development, strategy, user interface, wordpress | 2 Responses

Building Apps is Wrong!

Building Apps is Wrong!

By Brian Sommer on September 22, 2011

Software developers, too many of them in fact, are still building apps. That could be a mistake. For decades, software developers have identified business functions and transactions that they could create applications around. The job of an application usually was to permit the recording of a business or accounting event, perform some computational magic upon […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Appirio, Software development, Uniform Resource Locator, user interface | 5 Responses

The 7 Kinds of Software Developer Wushu

The 7 Kinds of Software Developer Wushu

By Bob Warfield on May 5, 2011

James Governor got me thinking along these lines by asking how to segment developers.  He asked whether the web “killed” the professional developer, or at the very least radically reshaped the segments.  I don’t know about all that, in fact I’m pretty skeptical.  But what I do know is that the way James talked about developers […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged dvelopers, Programming, Software development, strategy, User Experience, user interface

Those Special Customers Developers Love (Well They Should Love Them!)

Those Special Customers Developers Love (Well They Should Love Them!)

By Bob Warfield on March 3, 2011

Do you have any special customers that your developers hate? These are the customers that can mysteriously break your products over and over again, even though perhaps thousands of others report no problems. How does this work? First, understand the psychology of bugs.  Developers don’t consciously create bugs, they come about as errors of omission, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Customer, customer service, Issue tracking system, Software bug, Software development, User Experience, user interface

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

What Will GPU-On-The-CPU Mean for Analytics?

What Will GPU-On-The-CPU Mean for Analytics?

By Bob Warfield on January 22, 2011

This week’s InfoBoom-sponsored post is all about Intel’s announcement that it would be shipping chips that include an integrated graphics processor (GPU) on the same chip as the CPU under their so-called Sandybridge architecture.  A lot of folks probably ignored the announcement thinking it meant better video games for their kids and perhaps their laptops, but […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, Software development

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