Reply All Podcast Snapchat Thief Robocall: Bang Bang – How are robocalls able to figure out how to call you from the area code of your current location? Long Distance – The team investigates a phone scammer who happens to call the studio. Alex goes to meet the scammer in India. Privacy/security and ease of use are opposing forces. Social …
Open Source
This paper was written for ITEC 8502 – Seminar:Systems and Software Management as part of the Doctorate of Information Technology program at Walden University. Open source software has helped propel Software as a Service (SaaS) into a disruptive technology. According to one study, SaaS sales hit $15 billion in the third quarter of this year, and this trend is expected …
In Search of a Doctorate – UPDATE
Looking over my site, I see I haven’t updated things for some time. Working on a doctorate tends to consume all of my time. Plus after writing paper after paper, typing up a blog post isn’t appealing. Just this week, I needed to type up a 5-7 page paper, and a 7-10 slide presentation to go along with the paper. …
Net Neutrality
There was a wonderful round-table type discussion on Net Neutrality on the Diane Rehm show recently, which can be found here. The best part about this discussion was that there were people from many different aspects of the debate: a lawyer against the big telecom efforts, someone from the big telecom side, someone from the FCC, and a reporter who …
In search of a doctorate
Searching for a doctorate program in technology is hard. Locally (within a two hour drive from my home), there is a graduate program in computer science, and computer engineering, but I’ve been looking for a more overall IT/IS type degree. After searching, quit a bit, I thought I’d share my findings. Capella University I completed my Master’s degree in Information …
Database expertise
So I have earned my pay over the years working with a lot of databases. SQL just seemed to come naturally to me, it makes sense. Even when I only halfway understood what I was doing, I wrote an online grade book using ASP and an Access database. Don’t laugh, it was waaaay back during the first half of 2001. Even before that, I was the guy everyone came to for changing how their screens looked in Access, or creating a new and complicated
Careful with the Windows 10 Technical Preview
According to WinBeta, the Windows 10 Technical Preview is collecting a lot more information from you than they normally do. The article does have a follow up at the end with a response from Microsoft stating that the data collection will not be carried over into the commercial version. This makes sense. I’m sure Microsoft will be using information from …