by Dave McComb | Jun 22, 2014 | Development
How do we perceive software response time? (I’m indebted to another author for this insight, but unfortunately I cannot credit him or her because I’ve lost the reference and can’t find it either in my pile of papers I call an office, nor on the...
by Dave McComb | Jun 3, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
Reflections on low-level ontology primitives. We had a workshop last week on gist (our minimalist upper ontology). As part of the aftermath, I decided to get a bit more rigorous about some of the lowest level primitives. One of the basic ideas about gist is that you...
by Dave McComb | May 13, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
Semantic technology resources I was alerted to this site: www.semantisize.com from a comment. It’s pretty cool. You can while away a lot of time on this site which is rounding up lots of podcasts, videos, etc., all related to Semantic Technology. I got a kick...
by Dave McComb | May 2, 2014 | Development
The scope of an application is one of those topics that seems to be quite important and yet frustratingly slippery. There are several very good reasons for its seeming importance. One, the scope of an application eventually determines its size and, therefore, the cost...
by Dave McComb | Mar 18, 2014 | The Whiteboard
Last night at the EDM Council meeting, Dave Newman from Wells Fargo used spectroscopy as an analogy to the process used to decompose business concepts into their constituent parts. The more I’ve been thinking about it the more I like it. Spectrograph Last week I...
