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...