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Yeah, that's a tough one to parse. I'm assuming it's so that IBM's consultants will start pushing iStuff.
Technology-wise, what does IBM have left that they haven't sold to Lenovo? I haven't heard boo about WebSphere in over a decade, and I do try to keep up with the news...
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm assuming it's so that IBM's consultants will start pushing iStuff.
Which will drive anyone who's ever used an ibm CONsultant in the past into Android's loving embrace.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Almost every day, there are software development teams finishing agile sprints who are left wondering what happened. How did we fail? Where did we go wrong? The answers are as hard to come by as it is to successfully implement an agile approach that is sustainable and maximizes its true value. "More than meets the eye"
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I ran this past my AI and asked for a semantic analysis. It didn't take very long. The article makes a simple statement, then meanders without purpose, provides no examples or real data, and makes no useful conclusions. Semantic Analysis Level = 0.526.
This is a fluff piece useful for the author in looking for another job or gig and to try and boost his authority-ship where he plants some doubts, says nothing, demonstrates no useful skills, and hopes some person starts thinking that they should hire him. In other words, he's fishing.
Further analysis of the topic, beyond the article, has potential meaning and value regarding that Agile isn't a total solution in software project management. I'd like to see a much more in depth article, one with real information and a Semantic Analysis Level of at least 3.5.
Anyone have some good links to some good here?
- Grant
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Let me guess:
Refactored Agile Development is the new RAD. 
Marc
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Google finally cracked the image recognition problem with its new artificial intelligence system, known as Google Brain. With Brain, Google can now transcribe all of the addresses that Street View has captured in France in less than an hour. "In time you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with love."
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The former Nokia employees who joined Microsoft in April are bearing the brunt of Microsoft's just-announced layoffs. But other teams across the company will be hit, too. 'It looks like you're doing a mass layoff. Would you like help with that?'
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Windows Phone and Windows Store app developers can finally rejoice -- Microsoft has announced a single Windows Dev Center website today, making it easier for app developers to learn and create apps for both platforms. This is yet another step towards the company's journey to a single unified Windows platform. Oh yes. Rejoice that there is more clutter when you're searching the Windows API
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We are thrilled to announce the 1.1 release of LiquidFun, an open-source 2D physics engine. It adds particle simulation to Erin Catto’s popular Box2D engine, and can be used as a drop-in replacement for Box2D. If your program is written in C++, Java, or JavaScript, you can easily use LiquidFun. LiquidFun now runs in your browser! And I can't stop playing with their test application, let alone something real.
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Increasingly, software isn't sold, it's used to power services offered over the Internet. So why contend with the complexities of open source licensing? It's just all about the sharing, maaaaaaan
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Didn't we read this drivel from another clickbait content farm last month? And the month before? And the month before that? And ... 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I think the reality is more that we are living in a post software of any kind world. We don't really want software - we want the service part. The sooner the industry realises we are more like roadies than rock stars the better 
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Only six weeks after its release, Apple’s new programming language appears to already be on its way to replacing Objective-C. "He ain't too hip now, but I can dig the new breed thing"
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While the bulk of the 18,000 Microsoft job cuts are coming from the former Nokia operations, more than 5,000 are coming from within the traditional ranks of the company as Redmond looks to revamp the way it builds products. "Look, if we were to build a large wooden badger..."
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Wow, 5,000 mid-level managers fired. That's a lot of mid-level managers. 
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Only probably another 5,000 in Windows alone. 
They're pretty middle management heavy. "Senior Principal Program Manager", etc.
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has followed up his lengthy inspirational memo on Microsoft’s future with a harsh dose of reality, promising layoffs of up to 18,000 employees over the next year.
In a brief e-mail to Microsoft employees this morning titled “Starting to Evolve Our Organization and Culture,” Nadella explained that the “strategic alignment” of Nokia Devices and Services will account for approximately 12,500 professional and factory layoffs. Microsoft is currently in the process of the first 13,000 layoffs, for which employees will be notified over the next six months and offered severance packages.
But who will build all the Windows Phones they (aren't) selling!?
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Earlier today, Microsoft announced the biggest layoffs in the history of the company, axing 18,000 employees. Out of those 18,000, 12,500 employees are a part of Nokia that came under the leadership of the software giant. However, that's not the only interesting bit in the email sent by Satya Nadella to its employees, he mentioned "select" Nokia X product designs will switch to Windows Phone. RIP: Nokia X - 24 Feb-17Jul, 2014. They will be missed.
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Microsoft has a really cool feature in the pipeline for Skype, and with a bit of luck it will be released in 'preview' later this year. At WPC in Washington, D.C., they showed it off in front of 14,000 partners. If you were not able to watch the keynote this morning but would like to see the real-time Skype translation demo, we were able to record it while we watched the keynote. A little ungefähr gleich, but there is potential. No hovercrafts, nor eels.
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The back-end framework is poised to shake up the development world. For those who hate client-side JavaScript, now you can hate server-side JavaScript too!
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I think Node.JS is quite cool.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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No. JS in the browser is bad enough.
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I mostly agree; but if I have to do buzzword compliant web dev again node would at least let me use VS instead of either having to fight with bean counters to buy me a new tool[^]  or to use an editor although more colorful is less capable than what I learned to program on nearly 20 years ago[^].
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Meh. IDEs are overrated. I use VS on Windows and vim on Linux and don't see any difference in productivity between the environments.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: I use VS on Windows and vim on Linux and don't see any difference in productivity between the environments.
*locks eyes with Church of VI member, gesturing to the right, while creeping to the left*
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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