Our people weigh in on the issues of the day.

Blue Slate's people think a lot about the challenges facing their industries today. In the process, they often come up with completely unexpected slants on current issues, or new ways of thinking about business problems. Bluespeak is where they share those thoughts. Feel free to read and reflect.

[Any views or opinion represented in this blog are personal and belong solely to the blogger and do not represent those of Blue Slate Solutions.]

Thoughts on AppianWorld 2012

Friday April 20, 2012 | By Chris Garber

This week Blue Slaters Shawn Firehock , Mike Sefransky , and Matt Pontius attended AppianWorld 2012 in Reston VA.  See Matt's thoughts below for an analysis of the conference: Blue Slate Solutions had the opportunity this past week to attend the...

Semantic Technology and Business Conference, East ...

Wednesday December 07, 2011 | By David Read

I had the pleasure of attending the Semantic Technology and Business Conference in Washington, DC last week.  I have a strong interest in semantic technology and its capabilities to enhance the way in which we leverage information systems.  There was...

Using ARQoid for Android-based SPARQL Query Execut...

Thursday December 01, 2011 | By David Read

I was recently asked about the SPARQL support in Sparql Droid and whether it could serve as a way for other Android applications to execute SPARQL queries against remote data sources.  It could be used in this way but there is a simpler alternative...

The Cognitive Corporation™ – Effective BPM Require...

Tuesday October 25, 2011 | By David Read

The Cognitive Corporation ™ is a framework introduced in an earlier posting .  The framework is meant to outline a set of general capabilities that work together in order to support a growing and thinking organization.  For this post I will drill...

Expanding on “Code Reviews Trumps Unit Testing, Bu...

Tuesday October 18, 2011 | By David Read

Michael Delaney, a senior consulting software engineer at Blue Slate, commented on my previous posting .  As I created a reply I realized that I was expanding on my reasoning and it was becoming a bit long.  So, here is my reply as a follow-up...

Code Reviews Trump Unit Testing , But They Are Bet...

Wednesday October 12, 2011 | By David Read

Last week I was participating in a formal code review (a.k.a. code inspection) with one of our clients.  We have been working with this client, helping them strengthen their development practices.  Holding formal code reviews is a key component...

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