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Karmona Pragmatic Blog

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Pragmatic Software Management, Internet Trends, Life and more…

Added on: Oct 3rd, 2008
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Moti Karmona
Listed in: Internet Technology
Tags: Software search internet Management agile pragmatic

Recent Posts

Chubby Hubby

Posted on Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at 00:15 in Software, google, people, development, peopleware

Recently, I have encountered an interesting paper (2006) about Chubby – Google’s (Paxos based) distributed lock service. I was especially amazed by the observations made on the Google engineering capabilities and mindset inside a “...
Random Rumbling on Technology Triggers

Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 13:36 in conspiracy, disruptive technology

“In the future everything will be augmented reality!” I might be getting a little too old, visionless, pragmatic or pessimistic for this but I find it very hard to travel to the promised lala land, Gartner’s calls “peak of inf...
Gemba Kaizen

Posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 14:11 in Management, productivity, project management

Preview * Gemba (現場) in Japanese means “the actual place” or “the real place” * Kaizen (改善) in Japanese means “improvement” In business, Gemba refers to the place where value is created and the general noti...
Scrum and Your Mother-In-Law

Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 12:22 in people, project management, scrum, agile, software management

Ken Schwaber was quoted giving this mind-blowing Scrum / mother-in-law allegory: “imagine that your mother-in-law believed her daughter could do better… and then imagine that she moved in with you… that’s what Scrum is like”...
Just upgraded to WordPress 2.8 – Baker

Posted on Sunday June 14th, 2009 at 14:33 in blogging, wordpress, tools, simplicity

I have just upgraded to WordPress 2.8 in less than 3 minutes… WordPress 2.8 Highlights * Speed!!! * Theme Browser and Installer * Ability to add Custom Headers * New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new Widgets API * New ways to custom...
Disable Google SearchWiki

Posted on Sunday June 14th, 2009 at 12:04 in search, google, conspiracy

Fashionably late*, Google Search’s global preferences page now includes the option to disable the SearchWiki “horror”… Simply click on the checkbox next to SearchWiki and you will “Hide the ability to share, promote, rem...