by Dave McComb | Oct 5, 2011 | The Whiteboard
I was inspired by this article in the Atlantic called “Home Remedy” Turns out this tiny town of 1,730 couldn’t attract and retain doctors and nurses for their 25 bed hospital. So they found townspeople who wanted to be doctors and nurses and helped...
by Dave McComb | Sep 30, 2011 | The Whiteboard
Last week over lunch, my 18-year-old son Eli asked me, “Why are scanners so slow? They don’t even have as much to do as a copy machine. The copy machine has to move paper, put ink on the page. The scanner only has to scan.” He was referring to...
by Dave McComb | Sep 19, 2011 | The Whiteboard
I’ve been working a lot lately with Semantic Web technologies. In particular I’ve been reflecting on the profound impact of basing everything on URIs. At one level it doesn’t look much different from primary keys or universal ids or GUIDs, but at a...
by Dave McComb | Sep 15, 2011 | The Whiteboard
I was hoping I wasn’t going to have to learn SPARQL 1.1 from the specs. Bob DuCharme’s book Learning SPARQL 1.1 arrived just in time to save me from that fate. The book is well organized, progresses well and has great examples. What I particularly like...
by Dave McComb | Sep 9, 2011 | The Whiteboard
CIO magazine had an article this month “Why CIOs Still Like Do It Yourself Software Development” and while the article wasn’t terribly compelling I do think it makes what is about to become inevitable, acceptable. We’ve spent the last couple...
