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Dell’s Sputnik – Git what you want
July 24 2012
In 1957, the former Soviet Union launched an unmanned satellite call Sputnik. That launch catalyzed a political, military, technological, and scientific race to superiority between the U.S.S.R. and the United States. More than fifty years later, Dell Inc. has launched … read moreEconomic impact of open source on small business
July 18 2012
A few months back, Tim O’Reilly and Hari Ravichandran, founder and CEO of Endurance International Group (EIG), had a discussion about the web hosting business. They talked specifically about how much of Hari’s success had been enabled by open source … read moreA crazy awesome gaming infrastructure
June 06 2012
How do you bridge the gap between IT and business while building a gaming infrastructure that scales? Sarah Novotny addresses that question in this Velocity podcast. read moreWhich is easier to tune, humans or machines?
May 30 2012
In this Velocity podcast, Kate Matsudaira discusses the human side of performance and operations, including how to teach people to address time, cost, quality and scope. read moreSchlomo Schapiro on continuous delivery platforms
May 23 2012
Schlomo Schapiro talks about what it's like to develop a continuous delivery platform, including the tech stack and the organizational challenges. read moreMay 15 2012
John Allspaw discusses DevOps in high-volume web companies and the importance of cooperation between development and operations. read moreTheo Schlossnagle on DevOps as a career
May 09 2012
In this Velocity podcast, OmniTI CEO Theo Schlossnagle discusses the skills of DevOps professionals and knowing how you've achieved excellence in the field. read moreMay 04 2012
Mike Hendrickson: "Adding DRM to content to deter theft ... are you kidding me? Seriously, think about that. It will take a good programmer about an hour to get past most DRM, or a manual shop somewhere in the world will cut and scan the physical book and away it… read moreJason Grigsby and Lyza Danger Gardner on mobile web design
May 03 2012
In this Velocity podcast, the co-authors of "Head First Mobile Web" discuss mobile website optimization, mobile design considerations, and common mobile development mistakes. read moreVelocity Podcast Series - Joshua Bixby on The Business of Performance
April 25 2012
Josh talks about Business KPIs, metrics and business benefits of performance optimization and always has plenty of data and graphs. In our conversation we touch on mostly on the business of speed. read moreSteve Souders on Web Performance Optimization
April 19 2012
Steve Souders on the State of Web Performance and Optimization and Velocity. read moreState of the Computer Book Market, part 5: Wrap-Up and Digital
April 10 2012
The fifth and final post in the 2011 "State of the Computer Book Market" report examines digital content purchase patterns and e-distribution channels. read moreState of the Computer Book Market, part 4: The Languages
April 06 2012
In this fourth post of "State of the Computer Book Market," we look at programming languages and drill in on each language area. read moreState of the Computer Book Market, part 3: The Publishers
April 04 2012
In this third installment of "State of the Computer Book Market," we look at how publishers fared in 2011 versus 2010. read moreState of the Computer Book Market, part 2: The Categories
April 02 2012
In this second installment of "State of the Computer Book Market" we look at computer book sales in specific technology categories. read moreState of the Computer Book Market, part 1: Overall Market
March 29 2012
The tech book market has been going through some major changes, but none more profound than the closing of Borders. Much of what you will see in the 2012 trends are directly related to Borders' demise, though the faint signals that the book market provides to other industries are still… read more2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 5 - Wrap-Up and Digital
February 23 2011
In this final post, (Posts 1-4 are found here), I will provide a summary of the first four posts, provide some insight into a view of top Authors, and include some data on electronic books and how parts of the digital world are surpassing the print world. read moreFebruary 22 2011
During lunch at TOC last week, we had a roundtable discussion that centered on the future of the book. The conversation touched on many different areas as you would expect: from distribution and inventory, to pricing and formats, to audience ownership and engagement. read more2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 4 - The Languages
February 21 2011
In this fourth post (posts one, two and three are found here) on the State of the Computer Book Market, we will look at programming languages and drill in a little on each language area. Overall, the market for programming languages was down -6.27% in 2010 when compared with 2009. There… read more2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 3 - The Publishers
February 17 2011
In this third installment, (see Post 1 and Post 2; Post 4 & 5 to come soon), we will look at how publishers fared in 2010, as compared to 2009. The chart below shows our dashboard view of the large publishers' results for 2010. The most notable piece of information… read more2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 2 - The Categories
February 14 2011
In this second installment (the first post can be found here), we look at computer book sales in specific technology categories. Remember that we've organized the data into six "Category Families"—Systems and Programming, Web Design and Development, Business Applications, Digital Media Applications, Consumer Operating Systems and Devices, and Computer Topics.… read more2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 1 - Overall Market
February 10 2011
As you can see, the computer market is down about 4% from last year. It should be noted that the computer book market makes up only about 1% of total unit sales in bookstores and online retailers. If you would like to see the performance of the major categories, this… read moreTwitter Approval Matrix - November 2009
December 07 2009
This is the sixth post for the Twitter Approval Matrix with data that spanned the month of November and different sources such as klout.com, tweetsentiment.com, twopular.com, scraping archives, and observations. This month I received help from Joe Fernandez the CEO of Klout.com. I have included Twitter Trends which is simply… read moreTwitter Approval Matrix - October 2009
November 04 2009
Twitter Approval Matrix - October 2009 read moreTwitter Approval Matrix - August 2009
September 06 2009
This is the fourth post for the Twitter Approval Matrix with data that spanned the month of August and different sources such as Hashtags.org, scraping archives, and observations. read moreTwitter Approval Matrix - July 2009
August 12 2009
This is the third post for the Twitter Approval Matrix with data that spanned the month of July and different sources such as Hashtag.org, scraping archives, and observations. read moreState of the Computer Book Market - Mid-Year 2009
July 24 2009
The market has been on a steady decline since mid-2008 and has continued downward right through the first half of 2009. And there are very few signs that the book-buying slump is going to turn around anytime soon. Overall, the market saw 595,821 fewer units sold in the first half… read moreTwitter Approval Matrix - June 2009
July 02 2009
A quick refresher, the matrix shows four quadrants used to describe trends found on Twitter, or related sites such as hashtag.org, tweestats.com, etc. For this post, I've limited the data and activity to the month of June. read moreJune 09 2009
This matrix shows four quadrants used to describe tastes found on Twitter, or related sites such as hashtag.org, tweestats.com, etc. The Y-axis is partly analytical and shows popularity (mostly through scraped numbers) or perceived popularity (in the future nominated by you). The other part of the grid is more curated… read moreState of the Computer Book Market 2008, part 5 -- eBooks and Summary
February 27 2009
In this final post, 1, 2, 3, and 4 were posted earlier, we will provide a summary of the first four posts and include some data on electronic books and how the digital world is catching up the the print world. read moreState of the Computer Book Market 2008, part 4 -- The Languages
February 25 2009
In this fourth post (parts one, two and three are found here) on the State of the Computer Book Market, we will look at programming languages and drill in a little on each language area. Overall the market for programming languages was down 5.9% in 2008 when compared with 2007. There… read moreState of the Computer Book Market 2008, Part 3: The Publishers
February 23 2009
In this third installment, (see part one and part two; part four to come later this week), we will look at how Publishers fared in 2007 when compared to 2006. The chart below shows our dashboard view of the Large publishers’ results for 2007. The most notable factor is that… read moreState of the Computer Book Market 2008, Part 2: The Technologies
February 20 2009
In this second installment (the first post is found here), we look at computer book sales in specific technology categories. Remember that we've organized the data into six "Category Families" -- Systems and Programming, Web Design and Development, Business Applications, Digital Media Applications, Consumer Operating Systems and Devices, and Other.… read moreState of the Computer Book Market 2008, Part 1: The Market
February 17 2009
What you won't see on this chart is that the computer book market cratered in 2001, shrinking twenty percent a year for three years until it stabilized in 2004 at about half the size that it was in 2000. ... Web Page Creation 4.77% -15.57% Large category with 42 new… read moreSeptember 27 2008
Is Adobe worried about the new threat to their dominance in the RIA space by the introduction of Silverlight from Microsoft. read moreIgnite Boston 4 -- Videos Uploaded
September 23 2008
Ignite Boston 4 was an interesting and insightful event. We have many things to take away as we plan our next event for January. read moreIgnite Boston 4, This Thursday
September 08 2008
Ignite Boston 4 is this Thursday at the Hooley House in the Faneuil Hall area of Boston from 6:00 pm until ~10:00. read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
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