Henry tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-268778 2008-10-14T14:53:19+03:00 Imagine. Invent. Involve. TypePad <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Henry/~3/420472084/the_best_way_to.html" /> <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.henryjacob.com/2008/10/the_best_way_to.html" /> <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-12569992</id> <published>2008-10-14T14:53:19+03:00</published> <updated>2008-10-14T14:53:19+03:00</updated> <summary>"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay</summary> <author> <name>henryjacob</name> </author> <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Quotes/Wisdom" /> <content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://www.henryjacob.com/"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay</p></div> </content> <feedburner:origLink>http://www.henryjacob.com/2008/10/the_best_way_to.html</feedburner:origLink></entry> <entry> <title>A Change is on the Horizon tag:typepad.com,2003:post-56704613 2008-10-08T13:55:27+03:00 2008-10-08T13:55:27+03:00 One of the noticeable differences between a great programmer and bad programmer is their interest in learning new languages.Learning a new programming paradigm helps to stretch your mind and makes you a better programmer overall, even if you never directly... henryjacob

One of the noticeable differences between a great programmer and bad programmer is their interest in learning new languages.

Learning a new programming paradigm helps to stretch your mind and makes you a better programmer overall, even if you never directly apply any of the new techniques. Notice I’m talking about paradigms here, not languages. Learning C++ if you know Java may make you a lightly better programmer over all, but going from Procedural programming to OOP for example, can be a mind-bending experience. – Arsalan Zaidi

When a new programming paradigm is accepted, the entire landscape of computing changes. The very reason why Java dominated our industry in the last 10 years is because of the adaptation of Object Oriented Programming (OOP)

Now the trend is moving from OOP to what we call Dynamic/Meta Programming. The languages like Ruby, Groovy and Python belong to this category. They are already making a big impact on enterprise software development.

There is another trend is moving towards Functional Programming. This includes languages like Scala, Erlang and Haskell. They are interesting but suitable for writing scientific applications.

Start learning at least one or two languages from the above list. Even if you are not going to use them in near future, at least, it will help you to become a better programmer.

If you have any problem in selecting a new language, then few more to choose from

 http://www.henryjacob.com/2008/10/a-change-is-on-the-horizon.html iCamp, Bangalore tag:typepad.com,2003:post-56705197 2008-02-25T14:13:00+03:00 2008-10-08T14:18:24+03:00 India’s first Innovation Barcamp (iCamp) is happened in Bangalore on 23rd Feb 2008, more than 80 people participated. It was a great success with interesting topics and discussions. The camp was started with my presentation on Design Driven Development (D3),... henryjacob

India’s first Innovation Barcamp (iCamp) is happened in Bangalore on 23rd Feb 2008, more than 80 people participated. It was a great success with interesting topics and discussions.

The camp was started with my presentation on Design Driven Development (D3), many discussions happened around my presentations until we ran out of time.

Some of the other presentations, includes

  • Innovation in MBA and Education by Pavan Soni
  • Unusual sources for innovation by Kalyan
  • Spirituality in innovation by William Miller

Read Saurabh Minni (one of the participants) commentary for more detail


My Presentation

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Sviokla, Vice Chairman, DiamondCluster International Inc.</p></div> </content> <feedburner:origLink>http://www.henryjacob.com/2006/09/the_boundary_be.html</feedburner:origLink></entry> <entry> <title>Bringing Innovation 101: Unlearn everything you know about Innovation tag:typepad.com,2003:post-12943561 2006-09-21T17:00:48+03:00 2008-02-19T07:27:33+03:00 “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” - Gloria Steinem In spite of getting a place in vision statement of every organization and spoken by every CEOs, organizations do very... henryjacob <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” - Gloria Steinem</p> <p>In spite of getting a place in vision statement of every organization and spoken by every CEOs, organizations do very little to bring the innovation in a true sense.</p> <p>The important thing which stops us from bringing innovation is what we know as Innovation is not innovation. </p> <p><strong>Unlearning everything we know as innovation, is the first step to innovate. </strong></p> <p><strong>#1: Innovation is Big <br /> </strong></p> <p>We all taught “Innovation is Big”, </p> <p>This very thinking makes innovation expensive.<br /> </p> <p>To become an innovative company, <span style="font-weight: bold;">YOU NEED NOT TO INVENT THE NEXT BIG THING</span><strong>, PERIOD.</strong> </p> <p>As Hugh Macleod, mentioned in How To Be Creative, &quot;The idea (Innovation) doesn't have to be big. It just has to change the world&quot;&nbsp; </p> <p>Anything which brings a small improvement in a way we (especially our customers) do things is INNOVATION.</p> <p><strong>#2: Innovation is an activity</strong></p> <p>Most of us think that innovation is an activity, which is need massive investment in terms of resources, to make it worst, many think that it's a non billable activity.</p> <p>Believe me,<strong> Innovation is not an activity, IT JUST A WAY OF THINKING&nbsp; </strong></p> <p>Create a culture, Bring defined innovative processes like <a href="http://www.designdrivendevelopment.org/">Design Driven Development</a>(<a href="http://www.designdrivendevelopment.org/">D3</a>), innovation will flourish. </p> <p><strong>#3: We need Innovators</strong></p> <p>Innovation is not belong to a set of people or set of skills </p> <p>Everyone can innovate</p> <p>&quot;Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten&quot;, Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative</p> <p><strong>YOU NEED NOT TO HIRE ANY NEW TALENTS</strong>. </p> <p>All you need is a leader, a leader, who can bring the best from people, who can create a culture of innovation</p> <p>The same Apple, which created&nbsp; some breakthrough products , was struggled to innovate when Steve Jobs left Apple during 1997. </p> <p>Every organization needs someone to drive the innovation, this is exactly what Bill Gates do at Microsoft as a Chief Architect. </p></div> http://www.henryjacob.com/2006/09/bringing_innova.html <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Henry/~3/17700353/before_you_can_.html" /> <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.henryjacob.com/2006/08/before_you_can_.html" /> <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-12469744</id> <published>2006-08-30T19:31:35+03:00</published> <updated>2008-02-19T02:58:26+03:00</updated> <summary>"Before you can be creative, you must be courageous."-Joey Reiman, CEO, BrightHouse</summary> <author> <name>henryjacob</name> </author> <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Design Driven Development" /> <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Quotes/Wisdom" /> <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="BrightHouse" /> <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="courageous" /> <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="creative" /> <content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://www.henryjacob.com/"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>"Before you can be creative, you must be courageous."<br />-Joey Reiman, CEO, BrightHouse</p></div> </content> <feedburner:origLink>http://www.henryjacob.com/2006/08/before_you_can_.html</feedburner:origLink></entry> <entry> <title>Enterprise 3.0: Rise of Application Intelligence tag:typepad.com,2003:post-12440114 2006-08-29T10:30:32+03:00 2008-02-19T02:30:51+03:00 As defined by Ross Mayfield and Andrew McAfee, if the Enterprise 2.0 is “use of freeform social software within companies.”, I like to define what I call Enterprise 2.0, as Enterprise 3.0: The Rise of Application Intelligence. Intelligence Flexibility and... henryjacob

As defined by Ross Mayfield and Andrew McAfee, if the Enterprise 2.0 is “use of freeform social software within companies.”, I like to define what I call Enterprise 2.0, as Enterprise 3.0: The Rise of Application Intelligence.

  • Intelligence
  • Flexibility and
  • Ability to evolve

Will be the key of these next generation systems s

Some of the factors which going to drive these changes are

  • Conceptual change in data storage and retrieval techniques
  • Recent success of Meta-programming languages
  • Rise of Domain specific languages

Enterprise 3.0 is going to redefine, the way our software behave, and they way we store and retrieve information and the way we develop software

References:

The four application pillars of enterprise 3.0
Enterprise 2.0 vs. SOA
Enterprise 2.0, SoA And The Freeform Advantage
The Enterprise 2.0 industry discussion continues and evolves

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Enterprise 2.0 is an evolving concept about the next generation enterprise software solutions. Since the name coined after the Web 2.0 and focuses on collaboration, many think that, implementing Web 2.0 (Blogs and Wiki) in enterprise is Enterprise 2.0.

Even though both share the common thread in terms of collaboration and social network, I believe Enterprise 2.0, is much bigger than blogs and wikis in enterprise.

From a long term strategic point of view, Enterprise 2.0 is an opportunity to

  • build an enterprise wide collaborative platform
  • build integrated meta model and centralised data store
  • re-imagine the way application behave

From a solution point of view, Enterprise 2.0 is about integration, integration of concepts, frameworks, and technologies, this includes

Web 2.0

  • Blogs
  • Wiki
  • RSS
  • Folksonomy

Enterprise 2.0

  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Workflow Management
  • Content Management
  • Mashup
  • Instant Messaging
  • Enterprise Social Networks
  • Rule Engine
  • Data Versioning
  • Time Machine
  • Business Intelligence
  • Domain specific languages
  • VOIP
  • Mobile Devices
  • Application Intelligence
  • Software Agents
  • Data aware architecture
  • Task based semantic navigation

Some of the related posts are:

Enterprise 3.0: Rise of Application Intelligence

What form will Enterprise 2.0 take?

End of Software As We Know It

Building Next Generation Applications

Application Intelligence

What Is Web 2.0

Enterprise Web 2.0

Enterprise 2.0

 http://www.henryjacob.com/2006/08/enterprise_20_b.html My predictions are happening tag:typepad.com,2003:post-12256571 2006-08-18T09:47:23+03:00 2008-02-19T00:09:58+03:00 I felt great this week for two reasons 1) A technology ‘Time Machine’ which I outlined 3 years back after a research titled “Application Intelligence”, is been implemented in Apple’s new ‘Mac OS X Leopard’, that too with a same... henryjacob

I felt great this week for two reasons

1) A technology ‘Time Machine’ which I outlined 3 years back after a research titled “Application Intelligence”, is been implemented in Apple’s new ‘Mac OS X Leopard’, that too with a same name.

2) The recently released Gartner’s ‘Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies’, included every aspect of my predictions which I have posted in the last few years.

End of Software As We Know It
Building Next Generation Applications
Application Intelligence

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