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Thoughtworks on Go. Hudson to Jenkins: continuous integration market dynamics
I had an interesting and fun lunch last week with an old friend (of RedMonk) Dan Roberts, now of Thoughtworks. Dan used to work at Sun Microsystems.We talked about all kinds of stuff, but given the...
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Grey Hairs And Red Herrings: IBM mainframe skills resurgence is a triumph of...
A couple of weeks ago I went to New York City as a guest of IBM’s mainframe group for an analyst summit. You may think mainframes are long gone by now but if you use a bank, or book a flight, or use...
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On code, purpose, meaning and poetry at IBM Impact
These days IBM’s Impact Conference is as much about sales as education, but one of the things it sells is ideas, and ideas can change the world. The first and last main tent keynotes contained two of...
View ArticleYou should watch this video: RedMonk’s developer philosophy, wrapped in humour.
Last week I was at IBM Impact (see my first take here). Wednesday evening we filmed this preview of the developer unconference on Thursday – which ranged pretty widely and encapsulated a lot of...
View ArticleRedmonk Developer Relations Advisory Services
Sometimes we’re not as good at marketing as we should be – just call us cobbler’s children. But change is afoot at RedMonk. We spent most of our time since founding the company in 2002 as outliers. We...
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Developers are Hard Taskmasters- @beng on VMware Cloud Foundry. Github...
If you want to attract developers to your platform it pays to keep their concerns front and center at all times- their tolerance for “marketing” is usually pretty low. So while VMware’s Cloud Foundry...
View ArticleMy thoughts on Dropbox, corporate and personal privacy and ToS changes
If you don’t know Dropbox you should. Its a wonderful service for sharing files between multiple people and machines. Its like magic, frankly. Most Web developers and designers I know use it. Why FTP...
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Developer Segmentation: Tell Me What You Think. Or How the Web “Killed” the...
I have been giving a fair bit of thought lately to app developer segmentation. Considering how much money is poured into developer relations, its surprising just how little solid segmentation work has...
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