Earlier this month I attended Pivotal’s SpringOne platform conference in Las Vegas. In case you’re not familiar with it, Spring is a Java Framework “that helps development teams everywhere build simple, portable, fast and flexible JVM-based systems and applications.” For some of you out there you may be thinking Java is old school and not relevant in in today’s…
Last week at the Enterprise 2.0 conference I sat in on an interesting session entitled “Does Social Media and Marketing Mater?” The moderator was Peter Kim of the Dachis Corporation and the panelists were Greg Matthews of Humana, Ben Foster of Allstate insurance and Morgan Johnston of jetBlue. Each of the panelist discussed how they…
I was quite chuffed to find that my first freelance piece for The Register was featured on the front page. The piece is a 17 minute podcast and accompanying intro article that covers the conversation I had with XML co-developer and really smart guy, Tim Bray. Tim was a great interview. Not only is he…
The latest Blueprint update debuted this weekend. Being a cloud-based application we are able to push out a new Blueprint release every ~6 weeks and drive continuous improvement in the product. (In case you’re wondering about the picture to the left, each release comes with its own cheesy-band code name. As you can probably guess,…
As the year 2008 draws to a close one more Lombardi Blueprint release has just just gone live. The login-screen has been cleaned up (except for the coffee stains) and “Twitter-fied.” The release, code-named “Quiet Riot” (in keeping with the official Blueprint code-naming schema) is characterized by a bunch of cool new features (you can…