Introduction This article describes the high-level layout of my computing infrastructure at home, facetiously called my “home cloud”. I have been operating some compute resources beyond a desktops for a long time (covering Windows Servers, SunRay setups, fiber-channel arrays, etc.),…
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Yahoo has started a program where users may request to have existing account and email names transferred to them. If a requested account has not been in use for an extended period of time, Yahoo will transfer this account to…
Starting with the new year, I am working with Demandware as their new Chief Security Officer. In this role I will be responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive corporate information security governance and management framework, covering all aspects of security…
Grahame is talking about “interoperability” and “intraoperability”, as different design philosophies for creating standards for system that “work together”. I feel not too competent to comment on the openEHR vs. HL7 aspects of this discussion, but it might be interesting to…
SD Times features an interesting article by Alex Hardy on how enterprise developers might be able to learn a thing or two from their brethren in the gaming industry. To me, this article is a full vindication of a belief that I…
An excerpt from Robert Kagan’s recent book “The World America Made” can be found in today’s Wall Street Journal. Mr. Kagan is the (in-)famous author of “Paradise and Power”, a comparison of the world view of Europeans and Americans, which…
Keith Boone put up on his blog an informative piece on how to get and use OIDs. If you are in need of an unique object identifier, either for healthcare or otherwise, you should probably head over and take a…
So it seems that Facebook is trying to force Timeline on everybody. With all due respect, but this is plain stupid. I do not want to have a timeline, ever. I will try to stop this, but if they go…
As indicated earlier, I am participating in my town’s information systems advisory board as a chair. Our proposal to move forward with a strategy to modernize the IT assets of the town received a big boost last night, when the…
Next steps that I was able to complete was to properly design the look & feel of the site and add all the social media plugins that I have been missing out on. Twitter, social bookmarks, etc. seem to work…