Oct 31, 2008 JargonSpy Columns on Forbes.com
Since July 2008, Dan Woods has been writing a column called JargonSpy for Forbes.com. Here is a list of those columns:
Make Your Web Site 'Groovy', February 2, 2010
Why Google Apps Need Fixing, January 26, 2010 More »
Feb 04, 2010 JargonSpy Gets 'Groovy'
This week's JargonSpy column mentions about a newish programming language that Dan Woods recently learned about at a New York CTO club meeting: Groovy, a "a Java-friendly language with many of the properties of Ruby and Python." More »
Feb 04, 2010 JargonSpy Shows 'Why Google Apps Need Fixing'
In his January 26 JargonSpy column, Dan Woods shows how much he has come to rely on using Google Apps to run his company, Evolved Media. More »
Feb 04, 2010 JargonSpy Exposes 'The Naked Mainframe'
Dan Woods's January 19 JargonSpy column exposes a scary truth about the mainframes that are still used today to store vast pools of data and run electricity and telecommunications grids: they are not as secure as they should be.
Woods says that IT managers tend to think of mainframes as basically safe from intrusion, so they don't focus their resources on protecting them from security breaches. More »
Feb 04, 2010 JargonSpy Highlights 'Why Lean and Agile Go Together'
In his January 12 JargonSpy column, Dan Woods discusses the attributes of Lean manufacturing and Agile software development, and says that these two methodologies are starting to merge. More »
Feb 04, 2010 The JargonSpy Shares His 'Virtual Sense of Loss'
In his first JargonSpy column of 2010, Dan Woods, aka the JargonSpy, talks about the sense of attachment he feels with certain aspects of technology, such as the server he used for his company Evolved Media's wiki and workspace. Woods mentions that beginning in the new year, Evolved Media has moved from its server space on The Planet to Rackspace. More »
Jan 13, 2010 Plan--and, Importantly, Execute
Driven to Perform author Nenshad Bardoliwalla has published his second installment in his blog series on the risk-adjusted performance management lifecycle. More »
Jan 03, 2010 JargonSpy End of 2009 Wrap-up
The end of 2009 saw some interesting columns coming from the JargonSpy's desk. The last three columns especially concerned issues that are companies will do well to consider going into the new decade.
On Dec. 15, the JargonSpy (Dan Woods) wrote about The Security Threat From Within, in which he said that "using production data for testing and development can be a major security risk." More »
Dec 13, 2009 PC World Article on SAP, EPM, Oracle Resonates with 'Driven to Perform'
PC World's Business Center site has an article titled 'SAP Making EPM Push Against Oracle' that touches on a subject covered in 'Driven to Perform.'
The article talks about CKE Restaurants' move from Oracle's Hyperion software to SAP's BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation product. More »
Dec 09, 2009 JargonSpy Touches on 'Multi-Touch Confusion'
In his Dec. 8 Jargon Spy column, Dan Woods writes about bouncing between multi-touch and non-multi-touch devices, and how users can get confused when going from something like a touchscreen mobile phone to a laptop that doesn't have a touchscreen. More »
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