Today’s world provides a range of challenges to the Human Resources executive: the challenge of having four different workforce styles …Continue reading →
Contemplating a Hybrid Cloud Deployment? Why Infrastructure Matters
The forecast for 2014 and beyond is cloud, cloud and more cloud – cloud computing, that is. For a majority of organizations – irrespective of size or vertical market – it’s a matter of “when” not “if” they will initiate a cloud computing deployment. And ITIC survey data indicates that hybrid clouds will predominate and […]
ITIC/KnowBE4 Security Survey: 56% of Corporations have no Proactive Response Plan to Deal with BYOD Security Hacks
The Bring Your Own Device trend has created a security “Achilles Heel” for a 56% majority of organizations that have no response plan in place to deal with lost, stolen or hacked BYOD notebooks, tablets and smart phones. And 56% of organizations also acknowledge they are not fortifying their existing security measures, taking extra precautions […]
My InfoQ series on Kanban’s agendas, Agile India 2014, and some overdue thanks
Over the past few weeks InfoQ has published a series of three articles I’ve written on Kanban’s agendas. Older articles don’t link to newer articles so I list them here in order: The sustainability agenda The service orientation agenda The … Continue reading →
Sense Predict Act: The Predictive Enterprise
Here is a paper from 2007 where we looked at the ecosystem surrounding the Predictive Enterprise Sense Predict Act The …Continue reading →
Lorem Check as Our.Umbraco.uGoLiveContrib
The lorem checker is now available as a uGoLiveContrib task. It contains all the nessesary logic to check that the nodes containing lorem are published (and their parents are published to).
@MattBrailsford currently has the pull request back to the ma…
Check Umbraco For Lorem Before Go Live
Before going live with Umbraco you may want to run a quick check for that pesky lorem ipsum. It’s better than tripping over it after putting a site live!
Well the following SQL will find nodes with property data containing ‘lorem’. You can alter the s…
XElement Helpers
Some really basic and helpful safe readers for the System.Xml.Linq.XElement object.
https://gist.github.com/CGaskell/8913779
I don’t want to copy the source here as it’ll not stay updated with the gist. But the methods are as:
public static T ChildN…
Introducing uHydrator for Umbraco
I recently open sourced a light weight object mapper for Umbraco which I have ingeniously named uHydrator.
uHydrator has been created to help with the Umbraco MVC implementation. It helps keep your views isolated form your business logic. uHydrator is…
Whose role is it anyway? The organisational side of Customer Experience
The philosophy behind customer experience has been around since cavemen first traded a club for a spear. It was simple then, as it is now. If you didn’t like who you were buying from or you felt they were getting more out of it than you, you’d probably get your own back by inventing the […]
