I am excited about the up coming ColdFusion 9 release Solr free text search – it replaces the Verity free text search that has been in ColdFusion for over eight years. TeraTech has been using the open source Java Solr search on a project for the American Psychological Association and we have been impressed with how […]
Crowd Chess
Is one single person smarter than an enormous group of people? Is a crowd better at making decisions than one trained expert? Crowdchess.com is taking this idea and putting it to the ultimate test, a mass exhibition of the ultimate strategy game where it is literally the world versus chess Grand Master Gawain Jones, one […]
Would Whole Brain testing have made Windows Vista better?
I was reading Joel on Software the other day and he talked about a rumor that one of the reasons that Windows Vista release was extremely inconsistent and unpolished was that the testing was fully automated (or left brain). There was no traditional (whole brain) testing where the tester not only runs the software through […]
Is Mahalo manual search engine web 3.0 or web -1.0?
I read about a new search engine called Mahalo (“thank you” in Hawaiian) in Fast Company. Is it using some fancy algorithm to beat Google or more powerful servers to power the search? No. Mahalo uses people to do the searching. At first it seems kind of web -1.0 but perhaps there is something to […]
Why use Whole Brain Programming
Why do I use the whole brain for programming rather than the traditional left brain skills such as logical thinking and syntax? Because it makes for better programs and happier clients. For example a right brain tool such as mindmapping lets me diagram out website requirements in a visual format. I can’t explain why but […]
Do you use your Whole Brain while developing?
Recently Dan Pink’s book “A Whole New Mind” suggested that the era of “left brain” dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which “right brain” qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate. I will be leading a Birds of Feather session at CFUNITED to discuss ways to leverage both sides […]
