Fleeing to a new TLA

I’ve left the world of GIS for a sharp slide back to the world of EFT.

Instead of being a developer and researcher immersed in open-source and encouraged to blog my adventures, I am now down and dirty in the world of moving other people’s money around. And bound by non-disclosure agreements.

So I’ll put this blog on temporary hold unless I come across cool things that are not locked down under a secrecy clause, or until I launch my very own super-duper-magnificent-take-over-the-world-cool-product-or-company. Or I might post general stuff about working half-day, or some of my more embarassing development blunders.

Or not.

Tech news

I thought I might find it interesting at some stage to see what I found interesting at different stages. So I’m going to link to the technology news items that I read that I particularly like.

Top 150 iTechnology heros was interesting – I don’t really know anything about many of them at all. (Note here: I don’t have a formal Computer Science degree – but fell into the field from astrophysics in 2001, pre 9/11, when companies here were hiring you if you could use a keyboard and spell “Hello World”!)

AJAX on the Enterprise: I liked this article mostly for the style in which it was written. I’m not terribly up to date on Web technologies – although I can now deplay a Sensor Observation Service with the best of ‘em!, but I’m supposed to be doing a review later this year on ways to display sensor web information, and particularly on comparing the browser / desktop client approach.

I think it makes a far more powerful demo if you are talking to someone about Sensor Web, and when they ask “How does it work?” – you can simply go to a web page and show them. Some of the stuff people are doing with GoogleMaps is great in this regard – the Noise sensor web mashup being a good example.

(Aside – the internet is dog-slow at the moment from Joburg, both from my work pc and from home…. does anyone know of bandwidth probs  / issues from here to the wider world?)