Playing catchup

Well I have not been keeping up with the blog as much as I should. I found myself pulling teeth to do the twitter miniproject. Maybe it might be because in most cases I will not hop on a new service without finding a point to it. I still feel that there are better alternatives to twitter an more than likely will use those before it. Ashton kutcher's promotions are not going to make me want to look all the time to find out what my friends are doing. The only way twitter would be better is if it was more automated and an took down what people were doing NO MATTER WHAT....and make it like big brother lol...

Class topics keep following me

Wow this class keeps getting more and more interesting. After doing the mini project for week 3 on zillow.com I noticed the website on CNN when a correspondent who worked for zillow was advising people on financial matters involving real estate. I had never gone to or even heard of zillow.com until the mini project .

Also after looking at the week 3 assignments I noticed that most programs that are created today are really databases with either a high level language on the front end or a webpage that pulls most of its content from a database. The software I support at my job use databases to store the data and really has the program that is install on the actual clients computer be an interpreter of the data in the database.

Week 2 blog

Well I am just getting around to writing my blog for week 2. The miniproject was on our interpretation of the the future in 10 years. Today is the first day of the digital Tv switch over. I haven't seen anyone getting extremely upset that their tv is not working but it is still during the work week. I kinda think that the stimulus checkes that everyone recieved last year that so many people went out and bought HD tvs with is lessening the hit. The DTV switchover is the first step towards a new tv. With digital signals I wonder if statistics will be better on usage. Closing off Analong is stimulating the economy with the purchasing of the digital tv boxes even with a voucher that doesn't pay for the sales tax on them. Little by little it will add up. In the end the digital switchover is going to be a big step in household integration and entertainment.

First week of Class thoughts

I find it was interesting thinking about agile companies the week before E3 where several companies that all meet the definition of agile are showing off their new technology and games in press conferences. Observing the business and technology merging in presentations during major company presentations showed off some of the principals in of information technology show in chapters 1 and 2. It appear that most of the companies were focusing on the input phase and improving it with new controllers, motion sensing cameras, and pulse detecting peripherals.