Category Archives: Business models

Office 2013 upgrade – red pill or blue pill?

Posted on February 5, 2013 by

The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are pop culture symbols representing the choice between the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue) and embracing the sometimes painful truth of reality (red). Wikipedia about The Matrix movie I have to decide whether to upgrade to Office … Continue reading →

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A review of JavaScript drawing libraries for flowcharts, Gantt charts and timelines

Posted on February 1, 2013 by

Overview I manage my projects using my own ElephantPM project management methodology. This is a similar in many ways to PRINCE2 but is greatly simplified so that it is suitable for use by smaller organisations. My needs ElephantPM divides the … Continue reading →

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How to build a 100 m skyscraper in 30 days

Posted on January 21, 2013 by

In the past I worked in project management in the construction industry and having seen the traditional process I find the idea of modular and factory building very attractive. Here is a video from a leading Chinese exponent. It is … Continue reading →

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Microsoft’s ARM blunder: 7 reasons why Windows RT was DOA • The Register

Posted on January 20, 2013 by

I never understood the user proposition for Windows RT. This article explains why there isn’t one. Microsoft’s ARM blunder: 7 reasons why Windows RT was DOA • The Register.

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The future of printed books, Will Gutenburg laugh last

Posted on January 6, 2013 by

I am writing a book this year on the ElephantPM project management system and I am presently trying to decide whether it should be available as an eBook. This is an informative article, Will Gutenberg laugh last? It has been … Continue reading →

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Amazon announce data warehouse back end solution

Posted on November 30, 2012 by

Today Amazon announced Redshift a data warehouse service based on PostgreSQL: Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift is a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Redshift offers you fast query performance when analyzing virtually any size … Continue reading →

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Social justice is leaving a tip

Posted on November 2, 2012 by

One of the joys of the web is that one does not have to rely on the media to digest documents for you. The quality of most government sponsored reports and enquiries is exceptionally high and one can read them … Continue reading →

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Amazon web services support Python

Posted on September 14, 2012 by

Python is the new kid on the block. A relatively easy to use interpreted language. AWS have recognised this. Here is the press release (some what late). Dear AWS Customer, We are excited to announce that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services provides a facility to sell unused capacity

Posted on September 12, 2012 by

One of the potential risks of buying reserved instances on the Amazon cloud is that you might buy more than you need. This has been a consideration for me for hosting the Keyapt app. Now Amazon lets you sell excess capacity … Continue reading →

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Why bootstrapping a start-up does not work

Posted on September 4, 2012 by

I have been thinking recently about why my own boot-strapped* start-up keyapt.com has not been as successful as we would like. The answer lies in the “fail fast” mantra. When you have a start-up it is necessary to try lots of … Continue reading →

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